Upcycling
T-shirt Rug
Alright, let’s talk about decluttering and up-cycling! Between graduating college and starting work, I had about 6 months. I traveled for 4 months and the remaining 2 I took advantage of the free time to organize my life. The first step was to do a deep declutter of my stuff, mainly my closet and a bunch of boxes I had in storage from my childhood home.
What I found: over a hundred event/company/free t-shirts.
As I went through, I easily made a huge pile of ones I didn’t see myself ever wearing again. Of that pile however, I only felt okay with donating a handful. Why? Because though most of these shirts are ugly and irrelevant now, they’re sentimental.
Previously my tactic was to just box up all of my sentimental stuff and stumble upon it every few years. But I was trying to empty boxes from the storage room, not add more.
This t-shirt rug is the first of many projects to up-cycle my shirts! This probably used about 20 shirts, and I absolutely love having them in my home now reincarnated as this rug. I saved the graphic parts of them for a current work in progress I’ll share eventually!
Can you catch how many times I restarted?!
It took roughly 2 weeks to make this baby – some days I’d give it an hour, and some I’d give 5. And now, I’ll keep it a lifetime!
