We interrupt Refashion Runway Season Five to bring you this special announcement:
If you been inspired by the creative and talented designers from Refashion Runway and would like to try some refashioning yourself, but you’re not sure where to start, making t-shirt yarn might be just the ticket.
Instead of throwing away all those old, unwanted t-shirts, turn them into yarn. It’s easy, it’s fast, it’s fun and it’s one more way to join the zero-waste movement. Use t-shirt yarn just like you would any other yarn — you can crochet, knit, make rugs, macrame, make pompoms, wall hangings or even make some tassels with it. If you don’t have any old t-shirts at home, check out your local thrift shop — there are mountains of t-shirts hanging around, in every color, just begging to be used and kept out of the landfills.
Click here for the full tutorial.
Click here for instructions on how to make a t-shirt yarn rug.
Stay tuned for some more fun ideas and how-to’s on how to use t-shirt yarn.
PS. If you’ve been following along with Refashion Runway Season Five, click here to see the latest challenge, Faux Fur, and to vote for your favorite designer.
The Renegade Seamstress 
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Does the t-shirt fabric dye easily? I’d like to use the fabric, but I don’t have nice bright t-shirts to cut up.
I think it would depend on what fabric the t-shirt is.
thank you! I enjoy your posts, so much! I was wondering if there are ways to make socks into yarn? I hate to throw ones with holes or missing a mate away. I even wondered if they could be sewn together, as is, for a quilt?
Thank you for the creativity you share.
Hi Mary,
I bet there is a way to make yarn from socks depending on what the socks are made of you could unravel them or cut them into a long strip. Good idea to make a quilt. I recycled some socks when I made these gnomes: https://therenegadeseamstress.com/2019/12/10/how-to-make-christmas-gnomes-a-new-one-minute-video/