First, cutting the yarn into loops takes time if you want to be accurate (or are borderline OCD about such things, as per moi). The sleeves can be used, but it puts seam bumps in the yarn, and you can also just cut a long spiral instead of loops. For another scrubber, I'd spiral cut and use all but the neckband ribbing.
Then, one tee shirt made a ball roughly the size of an orange, so the options were either to make something very loose or something very small.
I used needles the diameter of a pencil, or a little smaller, and it naturally knit TIGHTLY. I mean, it pulled together like a rubber band, and made a pot scrubber. It was small, about the same area as a three by five card, but when I say dense, I mean DENSE. I had to pull at it with both hands, as hard as I could, to see the center of any loops in the knitting.
Plain poly-cotton tee shirt fabric, smooth to the touch, ended up able to SCOUR burned crap stuck on my cast irons, and lasted months. A tip, plan to pour boiling water over the scrubber at least once a week to cut down on the buildup of bacteria (just like with any other cloth, sponge, or scrubber). For those who have dishwashers, the top rack is a safe spot for them.
It was a good experiment, and upcycled a tee shirt with a couple of wear holes on it.
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Making t-shirt yarn, and a project
Date: 2018-01-17 06:31 pm (UTC)Then, one tee shirt made a ball roughly the size of an orange, so the options were either to make something very loose or something very small.
I used needles the diameter of a pencil, or a little smaller, and it naturally knit TIGHTLY. I mean, it pulled together like a rubber band, and made a pot scrubber. It was small, about the same area as a three by five card, but when I say dense, I mean DENSE. I had to pull at it with both hands, as hard as I could, to see the center of any loops in the knitting.
Plain poly-cotton tee shirt fabric, smooth to the touch, ended up able to SCOUR burned crap stuck on my cast irons, and lasted months. A tip, plan to pour boiling water over the scrubber at least once a week to cut down on the buildup of bacteria (just like with any other cloth, sponge, or scrubber). For those who have dishwashers, the top rack is a safe spot for them.
It was a good experiment, and upcycled a tee shirt with a couple of wear holes on it.