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Wednesday, July 11, 2012

tarn (t-shirt yarn)


Making "tarn" (yarn made from t-shirts) has been appealing to my thrifty/recycling nature for awhile now.  Tonight I finally got around to trying it.  For my tarn I used an old t-shirt that I had set aside to make into rags.  I cut the shirt into one long 3/4" wide spiraling strip.  The resulting tarn ending up being about a super bulky weight. 
 I tried both knitting and crocheting a sample with the tarn.  I personally didn't care to knit with it.  Crocheting was much more pleasant.  It worked up very thick.  I thought it might make a cute chunky bracelet but I didn't care for the one I made.  Rugs are about the only thing I can realistically see making from it.






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