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Backpack Shirt
Simple craft techniques give a T-shirt a second life
- Total Time Needed:
- 1-2 Hours
Take the shirt off your back, and turn it into a bag you can wear — on your back! This project calls for an eyelet or grommet kit, which may require an adult's help to use.
- Materials
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- T-shirt
- Sharp scissors
- Needle and thread
- Large safety pin
- Clothesline cord, about 6 times the width of the shirt
- 7/16-inch eyelet (or grommet) kit (see tip below)
- Instructions
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Turn the T-shirt inside out, then cut across the shirt from armpit to armpit. You'll need only the bottom section. -
Use the needle and thread to sew a simple stitch across the shirt, about a half inch in from the cut edge, to seal what will be the bottom of the bag. -
Turn the shirt right side out. Snip the shirt's hem almost all of the way through (do not cut any stitching) at the midpoint between the two side seams. Attach a large safety pin to one end of the clothesline cord. Feed the cord, safety pin first, through the casing of the hem. -
Follow the eyelet or grommet kit instructions to add eyelets to the bottom corners of the bag. -
Thread the ends of the cord through the eyelet holes and double-knot them to secure.
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- Tips:
- An eyelet or grommet kit can be purchased at craft stores or online for around $15. In a pinch, you can cut the holes with scissors and seal the cut edges with fabric glue, but the result won't be as neat or as sturdy.
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