Last August I made a shopping bag from a T-shirt, following directions in the book Generation T. See that post.
The directions in the book had me measuring and cutting a shape from the front to make it very much like the plastic bags. That shape bit into the design on the front, however. So those T-shirts that have designs fairly close to the top would not be suitable for that project.
Martha Stewart has another version. You can go to marthastewart.com and hunt it down but I'll tell you the directions right here because it's so easy:
1. Turn the T-shirt inside out. sew the bottom closed, using the seam as a guide.
2. Take a medium-sized mixing bowl (about 9" diameter, more or less). Lay the T-shirt on a flat surface, flat. Place the bowl over the neck opening, making a half-circle shape wider than the neck. Use an air-erasable or water-erasable pen to draw the half-circle onto the T-shirt.
3. Cut out the larger neck opening.
4. Cut off the sleeves along the inside of the seamline.
That's it.
You can, of course, modify it. To make the bag handles narrower I tucked the ends under and sewed a zigzag through the layers. You can also zigzag the raw edges or serge them if you want to get fancy.
Oh, and that's Henry Miller on my t-shirt bag up there. Cool is the goal here.
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