Time for Tarn, An Earth Day Post

I worked for QVC for almost 12 years.  They were a fun company to work for and I had the tee shirts to prove it!  I had so many and with the recent move we made from SC to MA{downsized!} I was struggling to find room for them.  Enter Pinterest - I LOVE PINTEREST - anyways, on Pinterest I found ideas to help give tee shirts a new life since I really had no reason to wear these tee shirts again.

Before I could begin making the fun things I found, I had to go from this pile of tee shirts

To this pretty basket of Tarn balls.

Here's how I did it:

check out the video on You Tube too! 

• Works best on tee shirt without a side seam
• Begin by laying the shirt out flat and cutting off the bottom seam and the top below any logo. If there's no graphic on the front of the shirt, cut it just below the arm holes.
• You can leave the shirt in two layers as if you were getting ready to fold it, {I like to fold mine in half leaving the inch or so at the fold since I use a rotary cutter} with the closed edges at the top and bottom of your cutting surface and the open edges on the sides.
• Cut the T-shirt into strips the width of your choice. {I like to make it one inch strips}  I wouldn't go narrower than half an inch, though, or the yarn can become less stable.
• The key point about this step is DO NOT cut all the way across the T-shirt; leave about an inch or so at theside along the closed edge uncut.
• When the cutting is done you'll have something that looks like a hula skirt or the fringe from Jon Bon Jovi's jacket, but with the top edge closed.
• The next process is to make a slant cut from strip 1 to strip 2, strip 2 to strip 3 and so on in order to create a continuous strip for the whole T-shirt.
• Roll it all up into a ball and make something new out of something old!