T-Shirt Rug

I finally finished my second rug. It's basically the same as my earlier rug made of bed sheets but this one uses T-shirts. I really wanted some bright colours so I made a trip to Value Village for a 3 brightly coloured tees to add to my pile of shirts that myself and everyone I know had decided they were done with. Some T-shirts didn't really work as well as others.


Gracious Rain does an excellent tutorial on cutting T-shirts into continuous T-shirt yarn so I'm just going to skip ahead so my yarn balls and making the T-shirt rug.

Next you braid your yarn together. 
It's important to make one continuous braid from your T-shirt yarn.

Sewingforlife! explains how to start off your braid and how to add to your braid so much better than I could even attempt but you basically unroll your yarn and sew it on an angle and cut off the excess.

 I had a slight love affair with my ball of t-shirt yarn.

I decided to sew mine by hand hand.
It was time consuming to say the least but it was a bit thick for the machine to handle.

 

 

Perfect in front of the fireplace.

Quick & Easy Batman Costume

Just in time for Halloween, the quickest and easiest Batman (or Batgirl) costume.

What you'll need:

• Computer and printer
• Scissors
• A black shirt of any type
• Yellow chalk

To make the matching mask you'll need black felt and some elastic or ribbon, preferably black. I used a sewing machine but it could be sewn by hand as well.

I googled "batman mask template" and came across this one from Laura's Crafty Life.com.
I corrected the size to fit my particular superhero (I used the same template for the mask) and hit print.

Next I simply held the cut out on the shirt and used yellow chalk to outline it in bright streaks moving outward from the paper to the fabric.

Be sure to spray with an ample amount of hairspray to set the chalk.

Let the hairspray dry before pulling on the shirt.

  Nothing to it!

MASK:

The mask is slightly more complicated. I used the same template for both projects. I used the chalk exactly as I did to make the symbol on the shirt only this time I used black felt. 

Make two of these, pin them back to back and sew around all the edges.

Add some ribbon or elastic to complete your mask.

To the Batmobile!