Art Teaching Ideas - Colour. Crafty Cousins: Tee Shirt Ringlet Scarf. This cute little scarf super easy to make, comfy, and it makes a great gift!
Did I mention it’s “no-sew”?! Anyone can do this! All you need for this scarf is a pair of scissors and four different colored tee shirts. You can get these from a thrift store, the clearance rack at a store, raid your own closet, or anything else. I got these from the clearance rack at JCPenney for $2.00 a piece, since I am going to be gifting it for Christmas. Remove all the tags from the inside of the shirt. Cut your shirt into eight strips from the armpits to the hem of the shirt. Take the back of the shirt and cut eight rectangles. Take one of the eight strips you cut from the body of the tee shirt. Take your stretched loop and wrap it around your hand several times until it makes an even loop. Do this for the remaining loops. Okay, so he didn’t help much. You should have 32 loops (or ringlets). Take two ringlets and tie them together with one of your rectangle ties from the back of the shirt. Crafty Cousins: No Sew Knit Vest. …or you can choose a different option with very little sewing.
I’m talking three straight lines that are only about two inches each. Super easy! First off, I really need to apologize for the quality of these pictures. Firecracker (my four year old) was playing with my camera and messed with the settings. Pooey. A few weeks ago, one of our awesome readers emailed us a bunch of pictures of cardigans and vests she had seen at a department store. Here are some pictures of the vests she emailed us: Sorry, They’re kinda blurry. So, I used this vest as a pattern. To start off, you’ll need 1 1/2 yards of knit fabric. When this is all laid out, you’ll see that it is just a half circle with arm holes with a scrunched piece of fabric in the middle.
All of the edges on this vest are raw. I used some fabric chalk and traced the pattern onto my fabric. That’s really hard to see. (Just pretend that’s a perfect half circle!) Wobisobi: Grey, No Sew Vest. Because of all of the questions I have received about this project, I have done a quick video on this No Sew Vest.
This vest is very Similar to some of the other vests I have done, with slight variations . You can visit them HERE and HERE Hopefully this will answer some of those questions. Written instructions will be below as well. Wobisobi: Re-Style#54, Five Minute Draped Vest #2. This Re-Style will be slightly different, because I am adding video instructions.
Gasp! That's right, I am jumping off the dock and into the dark, cold waters of the unknown. Tutorial Things you need Extra large, Shirt Mens Shirt * I use Hanes Tee-shirts.Scissors Cut where the red marks are. How to make bias tape. {photo of liberty bias trim by poshyarns} ETA: Also check out the continuous loop bias tape method for a faster method (it’s just slightly trickier the first time).
As I mentioned recently, I think bias tape is wonderful stuff. It’s a terrific help if you can learn to make it yourself. Yes, it’s a bit time consuming, but the possibilities are pretty endless for prints and patterns, it’s less expensive, and best of all as far as I’m concerned, you can make tape to match your fabric! Guest Post: How to Make a Vest from a Scarf + Giveaway! Today I have the pleasure of welcoming Stacie, whom some of you may already know from her blog , which I’ve featured a few times in my DIY Roundups. Or you may have seen how amazingly talented she is by seeing that jaw-dropping DIY Fendi Rose Dress she made awhile ago, or DIY Jeffrey Campbell Tick Studded Espadrilles. She’s a crafty one, alright! ;-) We’ve been following each other’s blogs for some time now, and when she contacted me about a possible guest post I was so excited!
Take it away, Stacie! Hi everyone! A little about me: I just graduated from college in Indiana and started working at Affordable Style—this is my first big guest post. Behind The Seams: DIY: Wrap-turned-Scarf.