 One thing that folks often collect are t-shirts. Concerts, life-events, travel souvenirs, school, and college shirts are just a few examples. The old saying comes to mind -- "My parents went to ____ and all I got was this shirt". Vacation t-shirts appear to be one of the most popular souvenirs over the past few years.
And many of us have a closet full of them.
If a shirt has a special meaning to you, it will be something you keep and add it to the pile of other shirts, soon you have an new collection.
I don't recommend using this idea with valuable rock concert or other valuable vintage t-shirts, but for those shirts that not being worn -- why not turn them into something fun and useful.
In our case it all started with literally two big boxes of Thunder NBA shirts. We had free ones given to us at special games, there were special giveaways of other shirts and we even bought a few. Since we are still avid fans -- we keep getting them and there was no way we would get rid of all of them, they meant too much.Â
The problem became how to enjoy our collection of shirts without wearing a different one each day.Â
Then I stumbled across JD Star, a crafter who turned those shirts into a wonderful blanket. Not a filled quilt, but a lightweight blanket that was made out of both sides of the shirt. The shirts are cut into large squares and serged together. It's incredible, washes like a dream and is sturdy enough to be used for almost anything. After all, it's durable t-shirt material.
It only took a few more months and  we had more Thunder shirts and didn't really need another blanket .
. . Â a scarf was born.Â
This is one of our original Thunder t-shirt scarves. The scarf is made of original t-shirts, along with a few extra shirt pieces for color (e.g. orange). The bottom edges were simply fringed with approximately 8" cuts, 3/4" wide. The fringe pieces naturally curl up with a little wear.
This Thunder t-shirt scarf is made of double-sided fabric, serged together. Both the front and the back of the shirt was used, if there is a design on the back of the shirt, it will also be on the back of the scarf. Â
>> The School Scarf with Pocket
The scarf shown above is perfect to wear for school events. Believe me everyone will ask where you bought it. It's happened to me a least a dozen times since I started wearing mine.  This is made from shirts from our grandson's school with the fabric pieces all cut to the same width from several different shirts. Mix and match coloring works great, all one color doesn't always look the best.Â
The scarf is double material, e.g.
the back of the t-shirt is serged to the front of the shirt. Five t-shirts were used to construct the scarf.
An added bonus, which is amazingly useful, the last two blocks are double thick and made into one large pocket that can be used for a few lightweight items when you don't want to carry a bag.
These scarves, as well as the original blanket were crafted by JD Star on Etsy.
And many of us have a closet full of them.
If a shirt has a special meaning to you, it will be something you keep and add it to the pile of other shirts, soon you have an new collection.
I don't recommend using this idea with valuable rock concert or other valuable vintage t-shirts, but for those shirts that not being worn -- why not turn them into something fun and useful.
In our case it all started with literally two big boxes of Thunder NBA shirts. We had free ones given to us at special games, there were special giveaways of other shirts and we even bought a few. Since we are still avid fans -- we keep getting them and there was no way we would get rid of all of them, they meant too much.Â
The problem became how to enjoy our collection of shirts without wearing a different one each day.Â
Then I stumbled across JD Star, a crafter who turned those shirts into a wonderful blanket. Not a filled quilt, but a lightweight blanket that was made out of both sides of the shirt. The shirts are cut into large squares and serged together. It's incredible, washes like a dream and is sturdy enough to be used for almost anything. After all, it's durable t-shirt material.
It only took a few more months and  we had more Thunder shirts and didn't really need another blanket .
. . Â a scarf was born.Â
This is one of our original Thunder t-shirt scarves. The scarf is made of original t-shirts, along with a few extra shirt pieces for color (e.g. orange). The bottom edges were simply fringed with approximately 8" cuts, 3/4" wide. The fringe pieces naturally curl up with a little wear.
This Thunder t-shirt scarf is made of double-sided fabric, serged together. Both the front and the back of the shirt was used, if there is a design on the back of the shirt, it will also be on the back of the scarf. Â
>> The School Scarf with Pocket
The scarf shown above is perfect to wear for school events. Believe me everyone will ask where you bought it. It's happened to me a least a dozen times since I started wearing mine.  This is made from shirts from our grandson's school with the fabric pieces all cut to the same width from several different shirts. Mix and match coloring works great, all one color doesn't always look the best.Â
The scarf is double material, e.g.
the back of the t-shirt is serged to the front of the shirt. Five t-shirts were used to construct the scarf.
An added bonus, which is amazingly useful, the last two blocks are double thick and made into one large pocket that can be used for a few lightweight items when you don't want to carry a bag.
These scarves, as well as the original blanket were crafted by JD Star on Etsy.