Upcycle Your Old T-Shirts Into Fabulous Flowers
This easy upcycling project will allow you to make gorgeous flowers for your home out of your old T-shirts. Only basic sewing skills needed!
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Cut a piece of wire approximately 12″ (30cm). This will form your stem. At one end you need to form a circle of diameter approximately 3/4″ (2cm).
Lay your t-shirt out flat and cut the hem off the bottom. Then working your way up the t-shirt cut it into strips approximately 1.5″ wide.If you are only making one flower then you need approximately 8 strips.
Once you have these strips simply cut the hems off the sides so that you have simple strips of jersey fabric.
Now you have your strips you need to form the petals. Simply take each strip in turn and cut into the strip approximately 1″ at regular intervals of approximately 1/2″ .
Thread your needle with some thread that is close in colour to your t-shirt. Take one of your strips and start rolling it up. Once you have a few rolls secure them with your needle and thread.
Continue rolling up the strip and secure it with a few stitches every few rolls. Continue until you have rolled up the whole strip. Secure it and fasten off your thread.
You need 7 more strips. Take the first strip and start sewing a running thread along the non-clipped side. Gather it as you go.
Ensure that you have a long thread as this is what you will use to sew the rest of the flower.
Repeat this process with the next strip of petals so that it continues along the same thread.
Take the flower centre that you made earlier and start to sew your ‘string’ of petals that you have just made around the centre.
Continue until the base of this flower is larger than the ring on your stem.
Now place the ring of the stem onto the base of the flower so far and attach it using a few stitches over the ring.
Continue to wrap the string of petals around the flower and attach with stitches.
Once you are getting close to the end of the string of petals then bring them over the ring and cover it as you work around the flower.
Fasten off your thread and cut it off. You now have a finished fabric flower. Well done!
Now make several to place in a vase in your home or gift to a friend.
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