What to do with cool old t-shirts that do not fit anymore?

This took me 5 min. Its an Elco, NV HD shirt in XL that fit, but barely came down to my belt. (why the fuck is every shirt that short? Im not tall, only 5 10, fuck...)
Anyway.

Turn it inside out, and use a piece of chalk and trace the outline of your kids shirt, or if you want to make a slim fit shirt for your Ol' lady or something, just use a shirt that fits who ever the way they like it....

then just sew it right from the bottom up to the arm pit, set your needle and spin it, and sew right across and off of the sleeve!
Since I was making a XL shirt fit a 4 year old girl, I then marked it where it would fit her like a normal shirt, then turned it inside out on the bottom, and sewed around the bottom. Then you just take the scissors and cut off all the flab. Turn it back right side out, and BAM! Cool t shirts are now made for little kids too!
you can get a sewing machine that will do regular t shirt material used for like 30 bucks on CL. A while ago I restored a 1938 Singer cabinet machine and it will do cloths all day long.

That's cool. Mine end up rags, hahahaha

some shirts are too cool to cut up. I have a FTW shirt that got washed in hot and its a belly shirt on me now. Its gonna be my son's shirt he wears to school monday. "we race on the street" LOL!

Neato Mrs. Cleaver!

Thats a great idea!

Not that it didn't fit, just didn't like the shirt on me. Cool drawing though

Originally Posted by JMFNC

Not that it didn't fit, just didn't like the shirt on me. Cool drawing though

I can't imagine my boy wearing a Highlife shirt
Mostly whites end up rags or the good ones I give to Goodwill (like 2 miles away).
Gnarly Idear though.
I had a Rambo shirt when I was a teenager that I found. I cut out the pic of Sly lightin some fools up and made it into a patch.....then gave the vest to my brother.

I thought about taking my old shirts and making wall art out of them for the garage . Get some thin ply wood and stretch the shirt over it then staple and make a frame if ya wanted to really get fancy

That's a cool idea. Pretty awesome that you got that old machine up and running again also.

Geez

i tend to use the ones i never wear as pillowcases.

Sewing is a very valuable skill set. Id have to spend a lot of dough on clothes if I couldn't fix them myself.

Originally Posted by Salty

i tend to use the ones i never wear as pillowcases.

thats a cool idea.

i turn mine into patches.

Re-line your helmet.