Recycle a t-shirt and make a cushion

Do not go throwing old shirts because with them you can make useful or decorative crafts like this cute cushion,  idea. Even if the shirt has faded you can use it, because aniline dyeing it a perfect web you manage to make crafts.

How to make a pillow with old t

materials:

t
scissors
aniline
thread
needle
filling

Step by step:

Start by cutting the shirt into strips about 4 inches. If you want you can make a small cut and rip the fabric instead of cutting, because the fabric of the shirt will be rolled and frayed thread will not be once the cushion is finished.

If you want to see more pictures and a complete step by step to learn how to make yarn for knitting with a shirt, click on the link above.

Once you've cut the shirts into strips, tíñelas with aniline according to package directions. Use the color you want to have the cushion and you can dye a whole shirt to make the cushion, which then will be adding the decoration of flowers made with strips of rolled shirt

Leave the shirt in aniline a whole night to take a lively fabric color. To ensure that no fading in washing the cushion add the water a home mordant, which can be a handful of coarse salt.


Having good fabric soaked in color, drain strips dyed shirts and hang them to dry in the shade.

Make the cushion cut two squares of a whole shirt and sewing them together on the back. Do not forget to leave without sewing one side and then fill it.

Having done this, turn the fabric and sew the pillow fills the open side.

I recommend you do a cover for the cushion with a zipper. A cushion craft can be very nice, but eventually you have to wash and sheath makes this work can be done practically and quickly without the need to disassemble the cushion or having to put the entire cushion in the washing machine.

To do this, instead of closing the open side seams and fill agrégale a close with another pillow sewn by 4 sides, or pillow you no longer use.

Making cushion decoration

Take the strips dry shirts and roll up to form flowers. While wind the fabric looks giving some stitching to disarm and then sew the flowers one by one to the cushion. Cushion covers completely with these fabric rosettes.

And so you finished this beautiful pillow made ​​with a shirt.

Is not that a great idea? And if you want, you can combine it with other cushions made ​​for yourself you can learn to make accessing our cushions section.


There are so many beautiful cushions, you can not decide on what to do first!