Do you have some old t-shirts that are crying out for a makeover? The t-shirt tutorials and projects we have on the following pages will help you recycle and repurpose old t-shirts in some highly creative ways!
Follow the t-shirt tutorials to make jewellery, quilts, t-shirt yarn and much, much more - all made from recycled t-shirts. Old and unwanted t-shirts are a great source of fabric and these tutorials show you how to take one or more t-shirts and create something completely new for very little cost! We have also selected some interesting tutorials showing you how to revamp an existing t-shirt by adding embellishments such as embroidery or additional color by dying the t-shirt.
We have plenty more recycling and repurposing projects here at Freeneedle, including women's clothes, men's clothes and kid's clothes. Do bookmark our pages and come back to see what new things we have found to share with you!
This cut and notted t-shirt refashioning project will be perfect for the beach and it's completely no-sew so that anyone with a pair of scissors can give…
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Added 18 June, 2013
Inspired by a Banana Republic top, this is an almost no-sew t-shirt refasioning project. It's a simple but very effective way to change the appearance…
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Added 17 June, 2013
Sometimes the simple things in life are all you want and this is as simple as you could hope to get with a tee refashioning project. If you've got an…
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Added 14 June, 2013
Here's another clever way to repurpose an old t-shirt and this entirely a no-sew project, so if you've got a pair of scissors and can tie a knot, there's…
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Added 9 June, 2013
It's another great looking t-shirt refashion that requires no sewing at all. Using an oversized mens t-shirt as the starting point, the illustrated tute…
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Added 7 June, 2013
Here's a pretty ruffled dress for little girls to enjoy summer days. The bodice is a ready made tank top which helps make things a little easier and the…
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Added 7 June, 2013
This no-sew project will be perfect for summer and uses a couple of t-shirts with one donating the fabric strips for weaving into the first. This is a…
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Added 5 June, 2013
This starts life as a couple of plain t-shirts that are refashioned into something rather more stylish and arresting. The tutorial describes this sewing…
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Added 3 June, 2013
We recently featured a similar no-sew idea from the witer of this post that used bleach to add the lips design to a colored t-shirt. Here dyes are sprayed…
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Added 2 June, 2013
Here's a simple sewing project to repurpose a t-shirt into a comfy knit skirt. The skirt pictured had the surface embellished with simple printed spots,…
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Added 1 June, 2013