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If you have some aged T-shirts in your closet that you no longer need to wear, but you love the colors about the fabric, change them into necklaces. The necklaces you may make out regarding a T-shirt will possess a layered appear, together with many "cords" that is hang around your neck as a one necklace. Since the necklace is made away from fabric, it is easily embellished with pins or brooches. Follow a simple method that doesn't involve any sewing or gluing.

Trouble: Easy

Directions

Scissors Tape method

Decorative brooch or Lapel pins

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1 Multiply a T-shirt out on your perform location with the front facing up. Utilize some size huge if you want a extended necklace. A method or small T-shirt will also work, but will create a several length.

2 Reduce away the base seam of the T-shirt and discard it. Measure and cut 1-inch-wide strips horizontally across the width about the shirt, by means of the the front and again, till you secure to the arm pits. These strips look like flat round loops.

4 Take one of the loops from the lump and fold it within half. Wrap the folded loop all over 1 side of the stack of the loops and connect it to hold the stack together. This forms the layered necklace and holds the layers together.

5 Trim the ends of the strip you used to tie the stack lower to a length regarding 1/4 inch. Turn the stack over to hide the finishs -- the side now facing upward is the side that faces upward while you are wearing it.

6 Pin a decorative brooch to the top of the material holding the sleep about the layers together to elaborate the necklace. Alternatively, add decorative lapel pins to assorted points on the layers.

References

Entire Residing: Recycled Craft -- The T-Shirt Necklace Favorite Crafts: T-shirt Necklace Craftstylish; Recycled T-shirt Necklace; Lynneathecraftyone; April 2 website11

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