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Part 1: Handles and Opening
Then keeping the t-shirt close to the table and holding the front and back of the t-shirt together, cut along your lines. Mind your fingers, fabric scissors are especially sharp! For extra security you can use straight or safety pins to hold the fabric together as you cut, but the t-shirt fabric is forgiving of mistakes so you don’t need to be precise. Ta Da!
Part 2: Closing Up The Bottom of the BagI'll show you two ways to close up the bottom of the bag. The One Cut Method and the Multiple Cut Method. The pictures above show you what the One Cut Method looks like on two different t-shirts: the Dinosaur Shirt (size ages 3-4) and the Pink Shirt (size 12). If you're uncertain, you can always try the One Cut Method first and see what it looks like. You can always remove the drawstring and make more cuts. Part 3: One Cut Method (for smaller t-shirts)
You may struggle around the side seams of the shirt, but just be patient and guide the cord through until it comes the other side of the cut you entered. Then tighten the cord and tie securely. If you want to clip your drawstring tails short, you can use a needle to run some thread through the knot a few times to keep it in place. Part 4: Multiple Cut Method (for larger t-shirts)
Here is my shirt with the bottom fully laced: Keep going until you reach the tails. You can either tie the tails off on the outside of the bag (as in the first picture) or feed them into the bottom of the bag before tying and trimming (as in the second). For extra security, take a needle and thread and sew through the knot a few times before tying the thread off. Part 5: Celebrate!Congratulations on completing your bag!
Please dispose of fabric scraps appropriately to where you live. Check your local council website or Recycle Now for more information. OR – you can use your scraps as stuffing in other projects. Try making a pouf footstool or draft excluder.
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