What in Tarnation 2

It's a pom-pom crown.........

......or a necklace!!

All from recycled t-shirts. Making these for the environment stall at the school fete. Next up tarn pom pom hair ties! Yay for TARN.

What in Tarnation?

What in tarnation? No I haven't turned into Sylvester Cat nor Bugs Bunny. But I do feel like I'm in a tarnation of a mess. Up to my ears in tarn*

It's all steam ahead for the school fete environment stall and right now I'm making anything and everything from donated old t-shirts.
To start with - tarn pom-pom necklaces. A little bit nautical........

 

..............but nice!

 

 

*tarn is yarn made from t-shirts.



the pom pom experiment

See here for tutorial

What's your favourite? I'm loving the tarn ones, the embroidery yarn ones and the recycled plastic bag pom pom. What else could I try to pom pom?

Finished Tarn Top

T-shirt yarn/tarn top I started last week. 
Easy peasy knitting on large needles.

Cast on 40 stitches
I did a four row rib band - Knit 2, Purl 2

Then stocking stitch (1 row knit, 1 row purl)knitted to the arm hole,
I then cast off 10 central stitches for a neck and continued (with extra needle) to knit up the remaining 15 stitches on each sided for the shoulders. 
The back was the same but without the neck - simply a square.
The yarn was cut from a 2 metres of cotton stretch remnant. I didn't cut it very well and if I did it again I would seek out more tutorials!

I wove beads into the neck line.

Thanks to Micmac (my daughter) for taking pictures of me. She says that my selfies suck. 

Oh and the"tatt" on my arm is a kids "temporary" tattoo which turns out to be not so temporary after all - which is funny because we each put one on! Now we're the tattoo family!

what the tarn-ation?

 T-shirt yarn is called "tarn"?

 I've been knitting a tarn top

using large needles and making it up as I go along.

 It's uneven and rough.....but I like it.

It's soft and stretchy and fast to make!

Now to make the back - and maybe add some coloured wooden beads to the neckline...

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