Creative T-shirt Tote Bag Tutorials

Are you looking for a great, low-cost recycling project to do at home or with a group? This is IT! This is a great way to use last season's team t-shirts or a previous year's event t-shirts! Re-purpose an unwanted t-shirt today and easily turn the shirt into a re-usable tote bag.

With just two quick seams and some fast cutting---you are finished! These t-shirt totes are strong and washable! Use for groceries, library books, tennis balls, gym clothes or pool supplies---use for anything you need to carry!    

We’re so excited to be here sharing an awesome upcycle craft with you guys today! We have a bunch of old t-shirts from college that we just don’t wear anymore, but they still have sentimental value so WE didn’t want to toss them. So WE turned them into tote bags! It’s so easy to turn a t-shirt into a tote bag, and the best part is, there’s no sewing required! All you need is scissors and an old t-shirt, you can make a super awesome tote bag!

It’s a great way to recycle old t-shirts instead of throwing them away, especially if they have sentimental value. And if you have kids, this is a great way to keep their favorite shirts useful even afer they outgrow them! PLUS this would make a great kid/teen craft idea.

Here’s what you need:

- an old t-shirtscissors

Though you can do this with any t-shirt, the thicker the t-shirt fabric, the stronger the bag will be. Just be careful that you don’t choose a t-shirt that has been worn threadbare!

instructions:
1. Start by cutting the sleeves off of the shirt.

2. Next cut out the neck of the shirt. Instead of cutting the neck exactly around the stitching, you can cut a little bit lower down into the shirt so that the opening of your tote bag is large enough to get stuff inside.

3. The last step is to cut a fringe and tie up the bottom! First, decide how long you want the bag to be. Remember, as you use it the fabric will stretch out a bit, so it might be too long if you use the full length of the t-shirt.

4. For this bag WE cut the hem off of the t-shirt, then WE cut the fringe up about 3″. The longer you cut the fringe, the shorter the bag.

5. Make sure your fringes are about 3/4″ wide and that you’re cutting through both the top and bottom layers of the t-shirt as you go.

6. Then start tying your fringes together. As you tie them together the fringes will help close up the bottom of the bag, but there will be holes between each set of tied fringes.

7. To fix this, just lay out your tied fringes as shown in the photo below (one fringe going up out of the knot and one fringe going down out of the knot), then tie the “top” fringe from one pair to the “bottom” fringe from the pair next to it. This will close up those gaps between the pairs of fringes.

8. It should look something like this once you have closed the gaps.

9. Just keep tying pairs of fringes together, then tying the top fringe from one pair to the bottom fringe of the next pair to close the gaps. Once all your fringes are tied and all your gaps are closed, you’re done!

10. If you don’t want to leave the fringes hanging down you can tuck them up inside the bag, or cut them off. But WE kinda like the fringed look at the bottom!

11. Take your new tote bag to the farmer’s market, the beach, the park, the grocery store, or anywhere!

the creativity is endless. so enjoy your own favorite guys!

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