While I was having a fairly easy time coming up with homemade gifts for the three boys, it was a little tougher for the 20 year old. Then I came across these recycled t-shirt scarves and thought they'd be perfect! For the full tutorial, please visit the link. I already had a pile of t-shirts that I had bought a few months ago in hopes of doing a different pattern of scarves. I picked mine up for $1.99 on sale at Menard's but you could use any unwanted t-shirt in your closet or find some at a thrift store.
When I finished, it looked quite a bit different from the scarf in the tutorial and I realized that I pulled the t-shirt strips tighter than I should have to get that ruffly kind of look. Another scarf tutorial had said to stretch the strips so that they curl in on each other, so that's what I did. It still ended up pretty cool. This will be the 20 year old's Christmas gift.
I wanted to try again, however, to get more of the look in the original blog so I grabbed another t-shirt from my pile and got to work cutting again. This time I barely pulled on my shirt strips at all before wrapping them around my hand. They curled in a bit, but not much, and I think it looks a lot more similar to the tutorial scarf. I also tied this one into a circle for a looped scarf.
It's a bit long so I may end up cutting off a loop or two but, all in all, I like it! This is a super quick, cheap, and EASY project! From start to finish, for both scarves, it only took me an hour. You could easily whip one of these babies out in 20-30 minutes.
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