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sugarspiceandcursewords replied to your post “refatshioning”
Not the same thing, but in pseudo-solidarity: I’ve been trying for a while to figure out what to do with the dozens of kid-sized T-shirts my children have ended up with. Day camp, swim camp, scout camp, random 5K, they will never wear these things but they’re definitely nothing that anyone else would want either! I do not need this many cleaning rags, and Google showed me how to wrap a headband and make bracelets, but how many headbands and bracelets can one child ignore on her bedroom floor?
Yes, this is part of my dilemma– all the advice things about decluttering are like “donate your old clothes” but listen, most of the donated clothes get thrown out or shipped overseas as garbage. I don’t want to do that. I want to take responsibility for my own garbage, the waste I generate. If it’s a beautiful garment in good condition, I will try to give it to a friend, or find someone who’ll use it, and only then will I donate it. If it’s a ratty old shirt with a missing button– or a t-shirt of any kind, really– then no.
So I’ve discovered that if you just cut all the seams off of t-shirts and convert them into flat expanses of jersey-knit fabric, then you can use them for quilt batting. I have a casserole cozy, so far, that I made that way– it’s got a layer of Insul-Brite in it, because it’s a gift, but I also padded it with two old t-shirts and it’s made out of a failed homemade skirt and lined with an old massage-oil-stained twin fitted sheet that I cut the seams out of and used the least-stained section of.
So I’m going to make a bunch of pot-holders filled with old t-shirts for Christmas, I think. And a bunch of quilts. Maybe I’ll make insulated drapes.
If you’re not someone who sews, though, then I don’t even know what you do with old t-shirts.
sugarspiceandcursewords replied to your post “refatshioning”
Not the same thing, but in pseudo-solidarity: I’ve been trying for a while to figure out what to do with the dozens of kid-sized T-shirts my children have ended up with. Day camp, swim camp, scout camp, random 5K, they will never wear these things but they’re definitely nothing that anyone else would want either! I do not need this many cleaning rags, and Google showed me how to wrap a headband and make bracelets, but how many headbands and bracelets can one child ignore on her bedroom floor?
Yes, this is part of my dilemma– all the advice things about decluttering are like “donate your old clothes” but listen, most of the donated clothes get thrown out or shipped overseas as garbage. I don’t want to do that. I want to take responsibility for my own garbage, the waste I generate. If it’s a beautiful garment in good condition, I will try to give it to a friend, or find someone who’ll use it, and only then will I donate it. If it’s a ratty old shirt with a missing button– or a t-shirt of any kind, really– then no.
So I’ve discovered that if you just cut all the seams off of t-shirts and convert them into flat expanses of jersey-knit fabric, then you can use them for quilt batting. I have a casserole cozy, so far, that I made that way– it’s got a layer of Insul-Brite in it, because it’s a gift, but I also padded it with two old t-shirts and it’s made out of a failed homemade skirt and lined with an old massage-oil-stained twin fitted sheet that I cut the seams out of and used the least-stained section of.
So I’m going to make a bunch of pot-holders filled with old t-shirts for Christmas, I think. And a bunch of quilts. Maybe I’ll make insulated drapes.
If you’re not someone who sews, though, then I don’t even know what you do with old t-shirts.
