Dad's Car T-Shirt

C, my hubby, had a birthday last week and I finally got around to making him a Car T-Shirt. It's a car map on the back of a t-shirt he can put on to simultaneously play with the kids, relax after a hard day's work, and get a nice massage. Cool huh?

Materials:
~ White T-Shirt
~ Map
~ Permanent Markers
~ Toy Cars

Tape four pieces of printer paper together and draw a map. (Feel free to copy mine or you can download one here)

Put the map on some cardboard and slide it inside the shirt. I don't know if you can see this very well, but this is my map inside the shirt ready to be traced.

Here's my finished product

This one isn't mine but here is a picture of how to use it when it's done.

(This picture comes from The Blue Basket)

Total Cost:

~ White T-Shirt: $2.00

~ Map: $0.00

~ Permanent Markers: $0.00

~ Toy Cars: $2.50

Dad's Car T-Shirt: Total Cost ~ $4.50

Old T-Shirt Bracelet

One of my favorite shirts got a big stain right on the front :( I hate it when this happens! I have a few plans for the fabric though. I made a bracelet today and it took me all of 5 minutes.

Materials:
~ Old T-Shirt
~ Scissors

Lay out the shirt sleeve and cut off the hem. Then cut a thin strip from around the sleeve.

My sleeves weren't very long so I had to cut one strip from each sleeve. Then slowly stretch out the fabric. Be careful that it doesn't rip at the seam. One of mine did rip so I just used it as a long strip rather than a circular one.


Fold one of the strips on top of itself so there are two loops. Take the long strip and place it over the hem so when you wrap it around the bracelet the hem will be covered up.


I wanted one more loop in my bracelet so I took my long strip and added one more loop then used the remainder of the long strip to wrap around the hem and tie everything together.

Here's the finished product. Fun and casual :)

Total Cost:
~ Old T-Shirt: $0.00
~ Scissors: $0.00

Old T-Shirt Bracelet: Total Cost ~ $0.00