FREE T-Shirt Refashion Projects (20 designs)

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Transform an ordinary t-shirt into something special with the help of this collection of twenty free t-shirt refashion projects and diy sewing tutorials gathered from all over the web.

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**Please scroll down the page for the links to the free patterns**

Refashioning a t-shirt can be a fun, quick sewing project for either an experienced seamstress or a beginner (since you're not actually sewing a garment from scratch). And because new t-shirts can often be found quite cheap (and sometimes for free), it's usually a low-cost project too. And if you decide to refashion a t-shirt you already have, it may even cost you nothing.

Some of these designs simply add a fun embellishment to an existing t-shirt while others transform a t-shirt into something very different and totally unrecognizable. And just be aware that some of these designs require either more than one t-shirt or complimentary fabric to create. Also, most of these designs are for tops, but there are also a few dresses you can sew.

And since a t-shirt is of course, made from knit fabric, here are some tips for working with knits: Use a ballpoint needle in your sewing machine, which has a rounded point and will therefore slide between the fibers of your knit fabric instead of slicing through them. And if your t-shirt fabric is particularly stretchy, you may want to use a walking foot in your machine, which will feed both layers of your fabric evenly and prevent it from stretching as you sew. And use either a stretch stitch or a small zigzag stitch when sewing your seams. This will allow your seams to stretch along with your fabric when your garment is worn, as opposed to a simple straight stitch, which would likely break. And because knit fabrics don't fray, there's no need to finish the raw edges of your seam allowances.

And if this is a new t-shirt you're working with, launder it first to pre-shrink it. This is especially important if you'll be working with more than one t-shirt and they're made from different knit fabrics.

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