T-shirt yarn

I wanted to look at something different to weave or knit with so I went on Pinterest and saw t-shirt yarn, I didn't really want to buy any as it was quiet expensive and I just wanted to experiment with it. I managed to find a tutorial on how to make it and decided to give it a try. I started by getting an old t-shirt and folding it in half leaving a 1 inch gap. Next I cut off the bottom hem. Then I cut 1.5 inch strips cutting from the folded edge and stoped when I got to the part with the one inch gap. I did this all the way up to the armpit. I then cut diagonally from the outer edge, then kept cutting on the diagonal until I got to the end. All that was left to do was to stretch the t-shirt.

I did two balls of t-shirt yarn, the first was a shirt that had seams, this didn't work as well because you can see the seams but it is still usable, the second was a seamless top and it worked much better, the only problem was the shirt I used has writing on it and the parts with the print didn't stretch as well.

I'll put the website link for the tutorial I used as I think it explains it much better than I have and also it has exact measurements which I didn't use as I was just experimenting and wasn't too fussed about it being so precise. I haven't made anything with it yet but as soon as I do I will write about it to say how it went.

http://www.relevedesign.com/how-to-cut-continuous-t-shirt-yarn/