Happy 11.11.11, hoop friends!
Who are you gathering with to help support THE cause?
To share in the meaning of World Hoop Day we thought we’d give you a little sneak peek at our new shirt collection, coming very very very soon! (Are you on our list..? We’ll tell ya abouts it when it’s ready.)
And how appropriate that this one’s the world’s largest creature (HEY! not me 
the whale!)
Ain’t she ka-ute?! (ME! possibly also the whale.)
Don’t forget to donate, if you can.
It’s a great cause and a little tiny bit can go a loooong way. (Last year we only were able to donate a “measly” $13, but Annie said that’s like a total of like 26 hoops in Brazil!!!)
Hey all!
So is there a blog called “imadeitfromatshirt.com“? If not, I might need to start that blog. Why? Because this is yet another Pretty It Yourself project made from, you guessed it, t-shirts.
And since this is HOOPPretty, where we love most things circular, I must make something circular.
Ta da! A bracelet from t-shirt scraps! It’s not perfectly circular, but it does circle around your wrist…..
Here’s the tutorial, and if you keep on scrolling down you’ll see some of the variations I made!
Here’s a couple variations to get your creative juices flowing:
This is the bracelet from the tutorial. Made from white and red t-shirt scraps and finished off with a brass button.
For this one, I kept the braiding strands extra long, so the bracelet wraps around my wrist twice. Finished off with a tin button.
Used a cotton twine to weave in and out of the base layer. Not as stretchy as the bracelets made from just t-shirt scraps, but I like the contrasting textures.
For this bracelet, I made little knots after weaving through every slit. I like the extra-bumpy texture, and how this bracelet looks a little more twisty. But be aware: if you want to try this technique out, you should make the braiding strands at least 5-6 times longer than the base layer.
The braiding strands in this bracelet are thicker than the other ones I made. Lends to a chunkier, cuff-like bracelet. Also dashed on some bleach for distressed effect and finished it off with a big bead.
Here's another bracelet, similar to the blue and white one that wraps around my wrist twice. This one has no bead or button. I just made a neat little knot to connect . I can just double it up and slip it on my wrist! That's the nice thing about using t-shirt fabric; the stretchiness allows you to do that!
Enjoy! If you have a cool variation please share! And if you have any questions don’t hesitate to comment!
Welcome to November everyone!
I don’t know about you, but I am glad that the Halloween season is over with. I am sooo over getting the bejezzus scared out of me and not being able to fall asleep until the wee hours of the morning.
How wonderful that the first day of November was so mild and warm (relatively)! I decided it would be a good day for me to challenge myself to hoop without doing on-the-body stuff. I’ve noticed that I keep on doing the same movements, and I wanted to sort of get myself out of my comfort zone. Also, I’m trying to get my other arm to do something (instead of just hanging there like a wet noodle).
I wasn’t totally successful with the off-the-body all the time thing, but still, I think I did some half-way decent stuff.
Hope I don’t look too dorky!
Happy hooping!
Well this weeks P.I.Y. is not in video form. I really wanted to cook something up for Halloween, so as the title says, this P.I.Y. is purely experimental. I decided to take you along for the ride in photograph form, since, I’ll be honest, it was easier that way.
Head band & Hairstyling!
But all in all, this lil head band and hairstyle ensemble is a cute little costume piece if you want to be any sort of animal with sticky-outty ears for Halloween. I imagine you could adapt this to make a cat, a dog, maybe even a monkey, or a…..ferret? I can’t say I ever wanted to be a ferret for Halloween. But you get the point. Onto the magic!
1. Fabric of your choice. I used two old t-shirts; a reddish heather one and a white one. 2. Scissors. 3. Thread 4. Pins and needles (or a sewing machine if you’ve got one)
1. I cut a strip about 1 1/2″ wide across my shirt. This is for the head band base. Since there were side seams on this shirt, I only used one half of the strip.
2. I cut another strip about 1/2″ wide. This will be for weaving into my hair. I separated it at the side seams, gave it a good stretch and set it aside for later.
3. Using a template I made, I cut 2 triangles on the side seam of my reddish-heather shirt for the fox ears. I figured this would save me from having so sew up at least one of the sides.
4. These are the triangle templates I used for the ear. The smaller triangle is for the white inner-ear.
5. Traced the smaller triangle on the side of the shirt(no side seam on the white shirt).
6. Cut it out.
7.-8. I cut the white inner-ear section in half. One part for each ear. No need to be super neat. I kinda like the rough edges, they almost look fuzzy.
9. Pinned a white triangle on the right-side-out of each ear, pinning onto the top layer only.
10. Hand sewed the triangles onto the ears.
11. Pinned the ears together, wrong-side-out.
12. Used the sewing machine to sew up the ears ( I was getting impatient with this hand-sewing thing), making sure to leave a little opening to turn the ears right-side-out. Sewed up the little opening whence it was all turned out.
13. Grabbed the head band strip and gave it a good tug.
14. Pinned the finished ears onto the middle front of the head band strip.
15. Sewed the bottom corners onto the head band, using like-colored thread. Using white thread, I reinforced the ears to the head band by sewing little stitches towards the top of the inner-ear fabric.
16. Colored the ear tips with a brown sharpie.
For the “fox tail.” *This was definitely trial and error*
17. Cut a small bandana-like piece from the white shirt.
18.-19. Spread it out and cut fringe strips. Gave the strips a good tug so they’d curl up a bit.
20. After I put this piece around my pony tail holder, I realized it was way too long, so I ended up cutting it in half. I cut that last strip on the right a little deeper and trimmed the top so it would act as the other tie.
How to wear it~with hair styling tips~
1. I tied a little pony tail at the top of my head.
2.-3. Grabbed those little strands I cut earlier on, and looped them around the pony tail holder.
4. French braided my hair as though red fabric was one section of the braid. As I went along french braiding, I did not add any hair to the red fabric section. I found that the strands would get covered up by my hair if I did that. This kind of braiding was actually more difficult than I thought it would be.
5. Tied the fringey white tail tip around my pony tail holder.
6. Tied the fox ear head band around my head, tucking the ends around the band in the back.
Voila! The Foxy Lady Look!
Happy Halloween!
