Sustainability - Textiles

Welcome to another blog-post. For textiles we are learning about Sustainability, meaning Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Our task was to create our own choice project, meaning we had to research, investigate, create and share the project we have decided on to do. 

        Brainstorm

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• T-shirt Quilt: Your favourite t-shirts don't fit anymore? Instead of throwing out your t-shirts, or even dumping them in your cupboard, you could put them all together to create a T-shirt quilt.
• T-shirt Wreath: Do you like DIY house decor? You could make a T-shirt wreath. It's nice and bright, it looks super cute with all of the pops of colour. What a great way to welcome people into your home.
• T-shirt Pillows: This is a brilliant creative idea, it's also like the T-shirt quilt. 

Project: T-shirt Bag

It's a scary statistic but we can all do small things to help our earth! Using reusable bags or totes is a very easy way for us to do our part. It is a great replacement to buying reusable bags or taking groceries home in plastic bags from stores and much more fashionable! They are durable and will last long. 

To do the magic all you will need is an old t-shirt and a pair of scissors

1. Cut sleeves off of shirt: You can use a short or long sleeved t-shirt. It won't matter since you will be cutting the sleeves off anyway. Using a sharp pair of scissors cut the sleeves of your shirt off. 
2. Cut Neck out of shirt: You can use a large bowl and draw around it on your fabric to get a nice rounded scoop shape or just eyeball it and cut the scoop. 
3. Cut slits and tie knots: At the bottom of the shirt cut slits about every inch through both layers (length will depend on the size of the shirt) long enough that you will be able to tie them twice. Remember the t-shirt will stretch with weight. Keep the slits lined up and starting with one end tie the aligning front and back pieces together in double knots until you have done the entire row.

We can also decorate out our house with T-shirt pom poms and T-shirt rugs among other things. So the next time you are thinking about throwing away or donating the old shirts or clothes - think about the other things they could be used for!