A DIY Kind of Day

Hi. My name is Laura. I hoard t-shirts. Perhaps you should repeat that phrase as well - because I know you've got a drawer-full, too. What? You have two drawers? Eek. In my defense, I don't go out and buy t-shirts. Not technically, anyway. Whenever I am searching for a 5k, I make sure that I'm at least going to get a shirt out of it (yes, I still need a tangible reward for surviving....I mean, completing.....such a physically demanding task). So I guess that makes my collection very expensive considering each one cost me a minimum of $25. Truth be told, they generally aren't that cute either. My first one (which came from a race that shall remain nameless) is downright ugly. It has a squirrel and an acorn on it if that gives you any idea. They're nice souvenirs, but what can I really do with them? I can't run in them because if you are an athlete of any kind, you know that 100% cotton is not the way to go on a hot summer evening. I figured they would just keep piling up in my closet and drawers until I got sick of them and donated them to Goodwill.

That is until Pinterest came to my rescue.

I woke up this morning feeling pretty crappy. My throat was sore and my lymph nodes on the left side of my face were swollen up like golf balls. Something is clearly wrong and I'm hoping it will just go away on its own. I laid around reading a book for most of the day and napped for a couple hours here and there. This evening I just needed something to do that didn't require a lot of physical or mental effor. I sat and looked at Pinterest for a while and saw this tutorial that I pinned months ago and decided to finally test it out and make a dent in my mountain of t-shirts.

I chose an especially ugly shirt (sorry Jazz Festival!) that I really didn't care about (again, so sorry!) to start with in case I screwed up this seemingly fool-proof project.

Shirt laid out, tutorial up on the laptop. So far, so good!



Cut everything off at the seams. Check!

Finished product!

Obviously, there is a step missing from my pictures (it's hard to take action shots when you're alone and Darcy is not capable of wielding a camera. She's only one for crying out loud!) but this blog post is clearly not a tutorial. I wonder if it's possible to have too many of these? Doubtful, considering I work out six days a week.

Due to my successful first attempt and the fact that it only took a hot minute to complete I decided to go ahead and make another:

My only concern at this point is how well they will hold up in the washing machine. No seams. No sew. Hmm....only time will tell I guess. Good thing I have a vast collection to keep pulling from, right?

I seriously considered doing a third one with said shirt from the unmentionable race but I'm really starting to feel crappy again so I'm going to just mix up some Emergen-C & snuggle up on my couch for the rest of the evening.