Before we launched Saved, we had a good look into what people do with their old T-Shirts, aside from letting them take up space in the back of a closet. Although we think Saved is the most ingenious creative reuse of the lost, there are some other interesting and inspired ideas out there. From making jewelry to bath mats, here are 7 inventive things to do with your old T-Shirts.
7. Rejig the material to make a vest top.
6. Make your own T-Shirt Magnet board. All you need is your favourite old T, an old picture frame and some other bits and pieces.
5. Sew a small pillow – it can even keep the original T-Shirt shape.
4. Grab a pair of scissors and make accessories, like bracelets, head bands and necklaces.
3. Make a bathmat out hundreds of small pieces of your old T-Shirts.
2. This idea will take a fair amount of time. A T-Shirt quilt preserves all of your T-Shirt memories in one warm memory blanket.
1. Send it to us, to be Saved. Give your T a second home before you grab the scissors ;)
Katherine Hui is currently the Social site editor at Green Thing, a web-based public service in London that inspires people to lead greener lives through creative content.
Before this, she worked as the Development Manager at Social Innovation Camp, an organization that encourages people to use web and mobile-based technology to mobilise social change. She oversaw 300 ideas submission and helped build 20 prototypes – five of which have gone on to get further funding or investment.
Katherine’s came over to the UK form Canada in 2007 for an MSc program at the London School of Economics. Before arriving in London, she managed a small environmental start-up in Vancouver called the Canadian Climate Change Alliance.
Katherine is football mad. She is a loyal supporter of Arsenal FC, plays for Islington Borough Ladies FC and coaches for Gunners in Islington in her spare time. Her second favourite hobby is kite surfing and she can sometimes be found chasing the wind.
