No-Sew Sweater to Cardigan Tutorial

Here is another No-Sew way to recycle your old clothes. 

This project is inexpensive and will only take you 15 minutes to do!

For this tutorial, we will take old shirts and sweaters and turn them into cardigans! 

You can never have too many cardigans in my opinion!

Let's Begin!

What You Will Need:

Old Shirt or Sweater
Some sweaters will fall apart when you cut them. Use a sweater that's lightweight)

Heat and Bond
It can be found at any craft or fabric store. Use regular or super strength

Iron

Scissors

Hard surface to iron

Start by laying your sweater flat:

 Now take your scissors and cut up the middle:

Like so:

Lay your sweater on a hard surface that you can iron on:

Lay one of the sides of your sweater face down.

Now we are going to clean up the raw edge with the heat and bond.

 Lay a strip of Heat and Bond down a 1/2" from the edge of your sweater:

Fold the sweater over the Heat and Bond tape and iron it.

Please read the Heat and Bond instructions before using it.

Your sweater should look similar to this.
I would iron the Heat and Bond on in sections. 

It is hard to do an entire side at once.

Do this all the way down your sweater.

It should look something like this when you are finished.

Now, do this to the other side.

Bonus: If you want an even cleaner look, fold the sweater's edge over and heat and bond it again.

If you have ends that look like this snip off the edge that is sticking out:

YOU'RE FINISHED!!

ENJOY!

Make Your Own T-Shirt Art Tutorial

I LOVE this DIY Project!

Here is another Make Your Own T-Shirt Art Tutorial.

You can create your own design from
magazine clippings, photographs, or anything else you can think of using!

What You Will Need:

Scanner/Printer

Iron-on Transfers (Found at any Office Supply Store)

A sheet of Printer Paper

Computer

T-Shirt

Iron
Hard Surface to iron on

Mod Podge or Elmers Glue

Magazines, Photographs, etc.

Scissors

Optional:

If you do not have a scanner you can do this project with a photo/design from the internet. If you choose to do this skip down to the step where you print your design. 

NOTE:

Light Colored Shirts need Iron-on transfers for Light Fabric

Dark Colored Shirts need Iron-on transfers for Dark Fabric

*Iron-on Transfers for Dark-colored shirts are more expensive*

 LET'S BEGIN!

If you are making your own t-shirt art start here:

Make a collage on a piece of printer paper.

You can use magazines, photographs, or anything else you would like!

Use Mod Podge or Elmers Glue to secure your creation to the paper.

Do not over-saturate the paper! 

Use just enough adhesive to keep the

picture attached while you scan it to your computer.

 Hook your computer up to your printer:

 Lay your collage face down and scan it to your computer.

NOTE: You will need to reverse your image so the picture/words face the right way when you iron on your collage.

HOW TO REVERSE YOUR IMAGE:
Open Paint. Drag and Drop your Photo into Paint.
Click Control+R and choose Flip Horizontally
Save Image.
It should look backward compared to your original image.

When you are ready print your image on the transfer paper.

Lay your Transfer paper face down and print your image.

(Please read the directions that came in the Iron-on Transfers packet since each printer is different)

Iron your shirt so there are no wrinkles on it.

Cut your design out. Leave little or no space around the design. 

If you leave a white border around your design it will show up on your shirt.

If you do not want a white border cut close to your design when cutting it out.

Lay your shirt flat on a hard surface.
Smooth out all wrinkles, so your shirt lays completely flat:

 Lay your design face down.

Make sure it is centered or exactly where you want it:

Iron on your design.

Set Iron to Cotton Setting

PRESS HARD AND EVEN

Make sure you iron the edges and middle really well!

(Again, check the iron-on transfer instructions to see how long you should iron your design)

When you are finished, allow the transfer to cool (2-3mins)

Then, slowly peel the transfer starting from the bottom.

Allow the design to cool.

YOU'RE FINISHED!

ENJOY!