Summer is nearly upon us, and so I decided to make a skirt out of t-shirts (actually one of them is a pair of jersey knit pants.)

So here's what I did:

Materials:

-2 t-shirts

-1 piece of wide elastic

-Thread

Tools:

-pins

-scissors

-needle or sewing machine

Directions:

First, cut 2 large rectangles from each of your two t-shirts by cutting off the sleeves and collar and then cutting anything else you need to make the edges strait.

Basically, just sew the rectangles together, alternating in color.

So you have a big tube.

Then turn your head to the right because I was having some trouble uploading pictures to blogger, and sew the elastic to the skirt(I used the waistband from the pants I was using instead of one of the t-shirts). While you sew the elastic to the skirt, pull the elastic so that when you sew, the fabric will ruffle up.

Cut the skirt to the length you want it plus a little bit extra for the hem, hem it, and....

ta-da!

I'm not sure if I like the color combination enough to wear it out, but it is extremely soft and comfortable not to mention extremely easy to make, so I am definitely making it again.

how to make paper

with the holidays coming up, it's time to start making or buying gifts. Especially green gifts! In this tutorial, T.Y. and I show you how to make paper. You can also add seeds and give the gift as a plantable one!

Materials:

• blender
• 2 tubs
• water
• measuring cup
• white glue
• scissors
• some kind of screen(we actually used a silverware divider that was made out of a screen-like material)
• PAPER
  

Unfortunately, I can only upload 100mb to blogger at a time, and the video is slightly bigger than that. I just thought you might like to know why there are two parts:)

plastic bag bag

In an earlier post, I said that I had a project for us, but unfortunately it involves irons, so it's probably not a very good project for school. However, it is not too difficult, and it recycles plastic bags, so here's how to make it:

Materials:

• about 30 plastic bags
• an iron
• wax paper
• a needle and thread (or a sewing machine)

how to make a bag from fused together plastic bags

• first you cut off the handles and the bottom edge of one of the plastic bags
• then, fold the plastic twice so there are 8 layers of plastic(for thinner or thicker plastic bags, you can adjust the amount of times you fold)
• sandwich the folded plastic bag between two layers of wax paper, and iron for about 30 seconds on each side.
• repeat process for all of the plastic bags

• place all of your pieces of fused plastic into a rectangle shape that is twice as long as you want the finished bag to be, with a little bit extra for a flap (optional)







• sew the rectangle together
  
• fold the rectangle in half (if you decided to make a flap, make one side longer than the other)
• sew up the sides
• turn the bag inside out
• take the handles that you cut off, and fuse them into a strap
• sew the strap on to your bag
• if your flap refuses to stay down, sew Velcro on.