T-Shirt Towel: Upcycle For Natural Hair, Locs & Curly Hair

Hey so i am today, i keep saying i'm coming on. You see that i'm here today i did a video that i've been working on for months months and months. It'S not like that. It'S a lot of footage, but it just happened over time and it started off with when i started, making a t-shirt quilt and with t-shirt quilts or memory quilts you take the um, the verbage or the decal or whatever the fun stuff is on the front of The shirt and you cut around it, and then you have all this other t-shirt left and what i wanted to do is um use the rest of the panels of t-shirts that i had left and i had some small ones and then, when i realized what i Wanted to make which i'm going to call a t-shirt towel um. I try my best to leave those panels as intact as possible. Now this particular one does not include any of the like arm portions. A great bulk of it is like the portion that goes around your waist um and then also the back, because that's also, you know usually pretty clear and what i did is i cut those up and i made this t-shirt towel. Why would i want a t-shirt? Towel well, i do explain a little bit more in the video, but i'm going to tell you now just in case you decide to peace out, but here it is um and i'll show you. I tell you the the rough dimensions inside of the video, because i did not. I did not write it down. I just recorded it because to me it really doesn't matter uh the size. This is what i plan to test and use on my hair um for anybody that has natural hair um. You may use t-shirt already to dry your hair, and it's just helpful if you have curly hair, because if you've ever used terry cloth or um something a little rougher, you know that your curls will get caught in there, which means it's snagging them out, and we Again, uh we, my daughter and i already use t-shirts, so we have a basket of them that we both share and that's what we use for our hair and i thought wow. It would be great to no longer have those decals in the way, also not having to do it with the arm holes in the neck hole and all of that, and so here is the first rendition of the t-shirt towel. It is, of course, a wonderful and easy project because it is an up cycle if you're getting rid of t-shirts. Some people use them for rags. If i can use them like this, for our hair to be great, i also do a little head wrap in there. So i may play with that too um everything else. I pretty much explain blah blah blah explain in the video if you have any comments, questions or concerns, as always leave them in the comment section. If you have not done so already, do not forget to thumbs up this video and subscribe to my channel, because your girl has a goal to reach 10 000 subscribers on this channel. So in the meantime get on into the rest of this video um, it will be some just straight footage because again i've been working on this over time, i would say: probably a year um, i cut the panels originally and just had them all together in a Container and then today, once i started cleaning up my workspace, i was i felt like i had enough to make a sizable towel and i do and i'm looking forward to giving this a try. So i will see you inside of the video. Thank you, as always, for watching. Let'S get to the vid the footage, i really wanted to say roll that beautiful bean footage. It'S not about beans. If you remember that commercial, tell me in the comment section i'll see you guys later, don't believe. First up, you will see me doing what i would call processing the t-shirt. You will see all types of um shirts, some that we played around with this workout shirts, some that came from the t-shirt quilt and then others that were already just in our t-shirt basket and you'll just see me work through them. One of the reasons why i wanted to add this recording with it is because the thing the hardest part is figuring out: what size should you cut them and really at first, i tried to do them some sort of standard size which is at least having once I got like, for example, the first few kind of sized up into rectangles or squares. Depending on the size. Then i tried to match up at least one side with the next t-shirt that i cut and after that i kind of let that go, and i just went with it. Just cleaning up the edges for the most part, cleaning off the excess, all the awkward sizing and just cleaning them up so you're gon na see that for a while. Just so, you can see how i handle different types of shirts and, as always, if you have questions, let me know later - and i will hop in and out of this footage to just give you a few tips here and there. The last video was of me just going through everything and creating a pile of pieces of fabric, essentially and now, i'm starting to just measure them and figure out how i want to handle the handle it from here. So so so with me in the next clip, you will see what i do next, so i cleaned about the edges. Essentially most of it was all rectangles and now you'll see how i'm going to put them all together to create my towel. I'M gon na show you something real, quick and just you're gon na hear the tv and stuff in the background, but um. These are all some of the extra pieces from the t-shirts. When i did the t-shirt quilt that i went through and i cut them up and now what i'm gon na do is sew them together randomly to make some hair towels um. So what i'm gon na do is actually assemble them. Much like i would assemble um a crumb quilt and all i'm doing is laying them out trying to see which ones have similar sizes. So hopefully i don't have to cut off too much and yeah. So what i'll do is sew these, like yeah? That will go good together. What i'll do is sew them together and make bigger units? I think what i'm gon na do is um once i sew them all together, i'll sew it and then wash them and they'll turn into, and so that i can test using this. So what i'll do is just pin it loosely so that i know where i think what i'm going to do is um. Do it with the french seam so that it'll actually hide the edges um and then, when i sew them, i'm not going to sew them with a quarter of an inch i'm going to sew them with a half an inch. It doesn't have to be perfect because i'm gon na sew them with a half an inch, but here's one pairing, let's see yep so yeah. This is what you're going to see me do just real, quick, and this will be another project that i can get off of my table, and then you can go in with my hair stuff. One of the things when i did these. I did try to keep them at pretty similar sizes so that i wouldn't lose a whole bunch in the process. Another thing is: when i do them, i'm trying my best not to stretch them too much, mainly because um you, i don't - want the seams or the pieces to buckle and i'm not sewing them with a zig zag stitch. I plan to sew them with a straight stitch and mainly because i just wanted to actually not be too stretchy. This could have a negative effect, but i i don't know i've never um. I don't know much about this type of material but um. Honestly, it's just a way of upcycling, since i use them for my hair anyway, and this would to me seems, like it'll, be a safer use on my hairs and i'll save these. I have these larger pieces i'll save the larger pieces for after i sew up the smaller ones, because those pairs see this is a huge one. I left the this was the whole side of a t-shirt, so i'll save these so because of my lack of knowledge of um seams and all of that i am uh. Now i was thinking about doing i like sometimes where you could do the what they call french seams and then sew here and then you hide the threads, but that won't be possible because this will need to lay flat. So what i'm going to do instead is i'm going to go ahead and sew all the pieces together and then what i'm gon na do is go through with a um another uh thread and like zigzag across the seams, almost like a decorative stitch to make this Kind of look almost patchworking, so what i'm going to do right now is go ahead and work on these. I only have a little bit of battery left and i will come back so here's the piece that i i did i'm showing you before. I lose everything or the juice, here's another that i did this. Let'S see checking sizing so that, hopefully i can limit the amount of cutting and reassembling. What i may do actually is put it like this and then cut that little piece off there. You can't you know, you can see it a little bit and then this will go almost perfectly across the bottom. Ah, let's do it this way. You can't see this, but what i'm gon na do is sew here, cut off the excess here then take this piece and sew it across it'll go from this end almost perfectly to the other end and those leftover pieces also those together and attach them. Probably so one of them at the end of here to make it long enough to finish it off, and then i have these long pieces of white that i will probably run run along each edge and take it from there. So what i've done is i've sewed? The two pieces together and what i do now is i clean up this edge. So here's the end of one piece and i'm going to cut this off, and that will give me a clean edge here and then i'll. Take this piece and add it on to another piece. I just want to show you this real quick. This is kind of how i do when i'm winging it a lot of times. You can bring things together as long as you have straight edges, especially when the pieces are mis mix matched in size. So i tried my best to get the largest uh pieces that i can sew in and have them as close as the same size as possible. So that when i clean up the edge that i can re potentially reuse the piece or i only lose such a little bit - that i can go ahead and put it in the pile for um stuffing. So this is going to be big enough for me to add on to the end of this piece. So i'll come back once i do this. Another thing that i'm doing is i'm in making sure that i sew with the seams open because of what i think i want to do at the end. So here i just lay it open and pin it and then make sure i catch. I have one here and i have another one. I think that's the only oh. I have another one here, so i have both of those pinned open and then i may come back through here and clean this up, so i've sewed this. This was the extra little piece i sewed it on here with the piece i already had and now what i do is i go through and i will cut this little edge off. Here'S my seam and um you'll find that once you start doing this a lot of times, if you lay and kind of smooth it not tug on the fabric, it'll lay straight for the fabric and some you know the fibers just kissing. You know like holding on to each other, so anyways i go through i'm going to just kind of clean up this edge and look it's almost. I mean exactly perfect, so i'll clean these up, so that once i move on so then i'll figure out where these last two pieces will fit. So i am all done there. We go it's a little bit better, i'm all done with my t-shirt. Towel! That'S what i'm just going to call it a t-shirt towel, because that's what it's for - and here it is i'm gon na just have to like do my own panoramic. So here it is, it's really big. I was going to go over each of the seams with the zig zag stitch so that i could lay the seams on the inside flat, but there are a lot of seams. So i'm not about to do that. What i am going to do is toss it in the dirty clothes wash it and use it for a while and see how i like it, because we have actually let me measure it: real, quick, um, 25, 50, 50, 60 about 62 inches 60 to 62 inches. Roughly by by about 36 inches 36 by 62, roughly um, what's very interesting, is i'm shaking it to make sure there's no like little bits. That'S why i'm going to wash it and see if i can actually um my hair is still literally well. The front portion of it is not um re-tied. Yet my daughter was like oh mom. That would make a cute head wrap. I was like, oh maybe it's hard to tell because of all these colors like. What'S what so yeah i'm looking forward to trying this we uh keep a hair. I mean a basket full of um t-shirts that we use for our hair and we, my daughter and i, and so we have plenty that we could cut up. One of the reasons why i wanted to do this. I would put way more volume if i actually had a real mirror and not just trying to look in the front of this. It'S not cute cute, but it's it's kind of cute um. We have a whole basket of t-shirts that we use only for hair, and one of the reasons why i wanted to do this is because those are still intact, which means you have to um struggle around logos and designs, and all of that so with that said, I'M gon na test this one and see how i like it and if it all goes well, then all of them will turn into this again. These are t-shirts that were left over from a t-shirt quilt. So therefore that would be another great use. Why do we use t-shirts to dry our hair? It causes a less snagging than your normal, like terry cloth towel, if you've ever, if you use it and you have curly hair, then you've seen your hairs get caught in the fibers of the towel. I'M sorry! I should have turned on like the sun is going away because of the storm, the rain um, so yeah. So that's what i'll do um um pleased i've been wanting to get it at these stacked on my table. So now it's no longer on my table and everything that i have all those t-shirts. This is all that i have left and this now this could actually be used to make um mask, but i'm not going to do that because i have plenty of elastic. So i'm going to just take these pieces and put them in my little bin for filler, so that is it for this video. If you have any comments, questions or concerns put them in the comments section. If you would like for me to see some do something a little more detailed other than a general update, which i will do probably with my um uh with my hair uh update some, you know in a couple of months um but yeah. That'S it for now. Thank you guys for watching, don't forget to thumbs up and subscribe to my channel i'll talk with you all, hopefully, sooner than later, take care goodbye. I never thought i'd be so empty, so lone and afraid wasn't looking for a lover. Nobody understood where i've been. I guess i thought i needed more time to protect my love from potential offices and i am not surprised.