T-Shirt Butchering

 To make Yarn.  I haven't been making yarn all that long, but I think I have figured out how to utilize the cutting techniques to get the most length per t-shirt and leave the least remains: which I am still debating if I can compost.
Steps 1-3:  Lay your shirt as flat as you can.  Fold it almost in half... you want to leave an inch that you will not be cutting and it is easiest to do if you fold with an inch to spare.  Using a rotary cutter cut off the hem.  Then cut one inch in width up to the fold line, be sure to cut the fold line, so you get through the folded hems side.

Cut across the rest of the shirt in one inch increments making sure to not go all the way to the other end, stop within one inch.  To finish this length of yarn put your arm cut in a diagonally across, please reference this awesome tutorial for more detailed photos.  Roll it into a ball.  I like to stretch the yarn out before balling it, makes it curl up on itself and also adds length :)

 Now move onto the top portion of the t-shirt.  Cut off the sleeves and then the chest and back from the collar and shoulder section.  

Next, look closely at the picture below, with the flat section of the chest and back will be cut back and forth, without cutting all the way through to the end.  It will have a bit of a bump in the yarn, but when you stretch it and crochet with it, it won't matter much.

 Connect the pieces of yarn together by cutting a small slit in both ends that you will be connecting.  Lay The one that you are adding on top of the end of your yarn ball.  Take the end and put it through the bottom and pull up through the two slits.  The end should go through the slit of the one it isn't connected to first and for more pictures and details this tutorial is a good reference and what I used when I connect strips of sheets.

Then Cut the hems off the two sleeves and cut them like you did the body tube of fabric.  Attach them to the ball of yarn with the slit technique as above.

Access the remains and decide what to do with them.  I have saved all the main body hems and have them hanging in my house as color inspiration and am trying to think of something to do with them.  The rest sadly I have thrown in the trash-- but so much less than any other butchering job out there.

Then go crochet something.