I Heart Recycling T-Shirts.

I had a terrible flu or something in January, so not only was I not posting here...I was also not making anything. Or doing anything. Literally. I was very, very busy just being sick.

Anyway, after I finally started feeling better, I realized that I was low on kitschy t-shirts. (Sadly, I "outgrew" most of my old ones.) I had purchased a clearance t-shirt from Old Navy that fit really nicely -- for 99 cents, no less -- though I didn't much care for the silver foil Halloween cat and the big "Old Navy" logo below it. You really have to overlook those things when something both fits well and costs less than a dollar, you know?


But I just don't care for brand-pimping, so I planned to cover the design and the logo with some sort of applique. I threw it in my "potential" pile (a nice pile of clothes saved for refashioning in my closet) and forgot all about it.

After my long convalescence, I needed a simple project that would still yield results. A t-shirt project fit the bill.

I dug out my 99 cent wonder and an old, ill-fitting sweatshirt. I measured the original design and cut a shape out of scrap paper just large enough to cover it. Then I cut the shape from a piece of the old sweatshirt.


I pinned the fleece shape over the foil design and began to outline it in uneven black running stitches.


And here is the completed refashion, easy and seasonally appropriate!