Craft Recap: T-shirt Scarf

Recently I joined Pinterest and I have fallen completely in love with it. I've been finding many different crafts, recipes, and even make-up options that I cannot wait to try. My favorite category has been the DIY one and many of these items are made for anyone to be able to recreate.

I've always considered myself a crafty individual, but I just haven't done much outside of work to that effect. This past weekend, I finally found the time and motivation to try one of the crafts. It's a t-shirt scarf. The original website for this (as far as I can tell) is from Cut out + Keep. I preferred to look at the instructions from this website though, as they are clearer and have more photos detailing the steps.

It took me a bit longer than it states on the websites. I made two and spent around 2.5 hours doing so. I watched my boyfriend, Alex, play Assassin's Creed: Revelations while I worked on them and the time passed very quickly. It was almost therapeutic.

I made two scarves, one normal and one circle scarf. I've worn both and love, love, love them! They are the most comfortable scarves I've worn and I even forget at times that I'm wearing them at all.

I do have a couple tips or bits of advice when it comes to making these. The bigger the shirts, the more loops you'll get, which makes a thicker scarf. I made the grey and blue scarf with tighter loops and that makes it a bit warmer. Also, the hem doesn't last long when it comes to cutting it up to use to tie the loops together. I cut them a bit longer than 5" and made sure to double knot them so they won't come undone. I ran out pretty quickly, so I simply cut strips from the t-shirt arms and used those. You can't tell a difference and they actually were easier to tie than the hem pieces.

I bought a bunch of different colored t-shirts at Michael's for $3 a piece. I looked at Target but the cheapest ones I could find were $8. I know the instructions say to use old t-shirts you have in your closet, but I already got rid of almost all my old clothes a couple months back. The grey shirt is an old one of my boyfriend's but the rest were just new, cheap ones I bought. Ultimately, each scarf still only cost me about 5 bucks to make.

I can't wait to make more of these. I will definitely be using this as a gift idea in the future :).