This is the second kind of scarf we made- using this pin as inspiration. There was no tutorial to be found, so we kind of made one up.
Braided Tshirt Scarf:
Lay your tshirt out and start cutting through both layers of fabric. Make the strips fairly thin- about an inch or so. You will end up with loops of fabric.
Once you have the loops (we ended up with 12), start stretching them. I had no idea they could stretch so much! We had some fun with that, haha.
fun with stretching!
After they're stretched, cut through each loop- turning your loops into long strings.
Set aside 2 strings.
Have your friend hold one end of the remaining strings while the other braids, or anchor it under a piece of furniture. Separate strings into 3 equal-ish ections and braid about halfway down.
Take one of the strings that were set aside and tie it tightly with a double knot at the end of the braid. Wrap the rest of the string around tightly and double knot it. Trim and tuck in the ends.
The next part is a little tricky. We found it easier to sew all the strings together at the two ends, then sew the ends together.
Meaning:: we sewed all the strings at the top of the braid together, then we sewed all the ends of the loose strings together. I neglected to get a picture... hopefully it's not too confusing.
I sewed them on the machine, but hand-sewing would work too.
After we got all the crazy strings into more manageable bunches, we connected the two ends of the scarf. There will be a lot of bulk, but do your best. Trim as much extra string as possible.
It will end up something like this (again, with super awesome paint effects):
Take the other piece of string that was set aside and wrap it around the ugly sewn-together part so that it looks similar to the one securing the braid.
Finished product:
Not bad, eh?
awesome, this is exactly what I was looking for! I spotted the turquoise scarf on pinterist and wanted to make it asap. Thanks for the tutorial!
ReplyDeleteThanks for your tutorial, it was just perfect!
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