Recycle a t-shirt into a skirt

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• jackie says:

  June 14, 2011 at 10:42 am

  I saw this blog awhile ago and I wrote about my try with it here! 🙂 LOVE my skirts!
  http://monkeymommascrafts.blogspot.com/2011/05/diy-t-shirt-skirt.html

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• Autumn says:

  June 14, 2011 at 11:14 am

  Lol. Who would have thought? How clever is that. Thanks for sharing. Maybe if I get some more time I can learn to sew. 🙂

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• Judy says:

  June 14, 2011 at 11:41 am

  I made yoga pants out of a t-shirt last year and love them…super comfy. I’ve been raiding my husband’s closet ever since :). I will definitely have to try making a skirt next!

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• Amy says:

  June 14, 2011 at 12:07 pm

  This looks like so much fun. I am definitely going to have to try this out. Thanks for sharing.

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• Jen @ www.yardsalemommy.blogspot.com says:

  June 14, 2011 at 1:44 pm

  I am going to try this soon! Thrift stores are great for finding new clothes for yourself. I often buy dresses and other clothes from thrift stores even if they aren’t my size, and resize them to fit me! I have saved a ton of money!

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• Emma K says:

  June 14, 2011 at 3:18 pm

  This looks like a lot of fun and easy to do! I am going to have to try this.

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• Jo Lynn says:

  June 14, 2011 at 5:20 pm

  I made my 10 year old daughter an overnight bag out of a t-shirt with a pink flamingo on it (she calls them party chickens) 😀

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• Julianne @ Julie's Diary says:

  June 14, 2011 at 6:14 pm

  Oh how I wish I had just an ounce of her creativity!

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• Betsy says:

  June 15, 2011 at 8:55 am

  I’m going to have to try this!

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• adrienne says:

  June 16, 2011 at 10:45 am

  Any advice…..I tried this with the elastic thread just like she said but it wasn’t shirring it was just stiching like normal…..help please 🙂

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• Carol says:

  June 19, 2011 at 12:11 pm

  I had the same shirring trouble! I tried steaming it like I’ve seen mentioned before, but nothing. Anybody know how to make it shrink up?

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• Jennie says:

  June 21, 2011 at 4:13 pm

  Arghhh…me too. My elastic just looks like a line 🙁

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• Fifi @ www.fififrugality.blogspot.com says:

  June 21, 2011 at 6:17 pm

  These are the posts I love! How creative and just plain awesome. I cant wait to do it!

  Fifi @ fififrugality.blogspot.com

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• Amy says:

  June 21, 2011 at 11:31 pm

  I love this idea and have had great experiences with shirring. I find that wetting the clothing and then throwing it in the dryer makes it shirr well.

  I made a shirt and posted about it on my blog, http://gabrielsgoodtidings.blogspot.com/2011/06/shirred-skirt-from-vintage-sheet.html

  Thanks!

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• Rae says:

  June 23, 2011 at 8:13 pm

  I love it. If you were fairly small and found a really large shirt, adding a few more rows of shirring on the top would make this a really cute swimsuit coverup dress too. Thanks for the link, I like a few of the other projects on there too 🙂

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• Lori says:

  June 24, 2011 at 9:43 am

  What an awesome idea! I took adcantage fo the t-shirt sale at Hobby Lobby this week and made the skirt AND also used the same idea to make a bandeau top (I just added a few more rows of shirring). Check out the results on my blog post:
  http://2boyslilprincess.blogspot.com/2011/06/turn-shirt-into.html

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