Since I was new to blogging and pinterest, I wasn't quite ready to take on a challenge. Today was the deadline to have your challenge piece complete. I was looking around at all the things people made & came across a headband made out of t-shirts from this blogger who took on the challenge. I was intrigued and thought I could do that. Well I sure did! It wasn't very difficult at all although the final product was a bit bulkier than I would have liked. Here is a step by step when I remembered to take a picture....
1. Take 6 strips of t-shirts & sew three of them together so you have 2 long strips of 3 together
I first only used 2 strips but realized it wasn't long enough.
2. Stretch the t-shirt strips so they curl up
Bubba was helping me out or trying to get me to play ball :)
3. Split the long strips up into thirds
4. Then fold those in half
5. So here is where I forgot to take pictures.... I followed these instructions from another blogger until I ended up with this!
This was when I realized two strips was short
With three strips. Much better!
6. Then I sewed all the strips together, added another piece of fabric by tying it together, then tying the two ends together by a connecting piece. The other blogs had a nice fancy way of securing it, but I was getting frustrated with the sewing machine & improvised. Here is the final result!
I tried to get some good pictures of how it looked on my head and that resulted in my own little photo shoot.
I mainly got frustrated with the sewing machine because back in May I was making Brad's graduation present which is a t-shirt quilt of all his old Ohio State shirts since he got his bachelors and masters degree from there. (Also because he is a little obsessed with OSU) I stressed over this blanket. It took up my ENTIRE living room floor-with all the furniture moved. It will no doubt fit a king size bed once it is complete. I tried to complete it before his graduation but I didn't. I ended up working on it for literally 3 days straight and had a break down the day before graduation because the sewing machine was not my best friend and decided to make a lot of the borders crooked.
Sorry for that long explanation, but as I was getting frustrated with the sewing machine & t-shirt strips that were from Brad's old t-shirts I thought back to this blanket below that still isn't finished.
It has been sitting in the dining room since May (it's August) and I haven't touched it yet. Sorry Bradley! I'm going to try and fix it soon-hopefully before school starts!
Wish me luck!!!!
Jenna
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