DIY T-Shirt & Lace Infinity Scarf

Hello friends! 

I hope everyone had a great weekend and start to their week! Things have gotten a little busy with us but I did manage to craft a little something I’ve had in my head for a little while. 

Introducing the DIY t-shirt and lace infinity scarf! Woo! What a mouth full! But it’s super easy and super cute and fun. 

The hardest part for me was figuring out what shirt I wanted to cut up!

You’ll need an old shirt (preferably one that’s soft, like a jersey knit type feel), some lace fabric, and a sewing machine and you are good to go. 

The first thing I did was find a shirt and I cut the bottom off. You want to cut it pretty thick since it’ll be for a scarf, plus you can always error on the side of too much since you’ll be hemming it in anyway. 

After you cut the bottom off you’ll need to take the stitches out of one of the side seams. 

Now you need to cut some lace. I cut my lace slightly wider than my t-shirt since I was again going to hem it in. Also you’re gonna want to cut it as long as you want the lace section to be. I think mines maybe a foot.

Next you sew the lace’s ends to either end of where you took the seam out of the shirt bottom. Make sure the inside of the lace and shirt seams you create are on the same side as the other t-shirt seam we didn’t take out! 

Once you’ve sown the ends of the lace to the ends of your shirt you’ve created a big circle of fabric! Basically an infinity scarf! 

Now for some housekeeping.

Pin and hem the entire side of the scarf on the side that you cut off the shirt. So just pin all the way around both the shirt and the lace part and create a hem. Then on the other side you only need to hem the lace in to the same width of the shirts natural hem (which we never touched). 

After that just trim up the hems extra fabric, and cut your extra thread and you and good to go! 

Seriously, so easy. 

*please excuse the rough looking nail job! Today was my day to redo them, unfortunately that happen after my little crafting adventure ;)

Mr. Pit (growing an avocado tree part 1)

Meet Mr. Pit. He came from an avocado. He’s been all wrapped up in his mother for a while now. Most recently they’ve lived in the bowl we keep on our kitchen table. They’ve had friends. The Banana Crew of course, then there’s the Lemon family, Mr. Orange, and Miss Honeydew.

But now he’s one his own. (Shhh don’t tell him but his mom will be very instrumental in tonight dinner...)

Look how pretty he is!!

This week I came across how to grow an avocado tree! Now obviously living in Kentucky is not the best atmosphere for harvesting avocados but you can grow a tree indoors. Kinda fun huh? The hubs has been wanting a larger indoor plant for the apartment so I’m gonna give it a whirl! 

First you gotta get an avocado. Then once you eat it (or if you just let it sit and get ripe and don’t eat it. You’re loss.) take the pit out. I would scoop it out and not whack it with the chefs knife and take it out so you don’t mess it up. 

Then you give it a bath. Just wash all the slimy goodness off and dry it.

Then you figure out the top and bottom. The bottom is a little flatter and the top comes to a small point. If you remember to pay attention when taking it out you can’t get it wrong cause it’s the same as the top of the avocado itself. The top of the pit will be on top with the top of the fruit (aka where you can see where it was connected to it’s tree). Mine looked like the roots already want to come out the bottom so it was super easy. 

See!!

Ok then you stick a few toothpicks in it! It’s actually really easy to stick them in. You do this because the bottom of the pit has to stay in water 24/7 while the top needs to say out of water 24/7. This way you can place it in a cup suspended over water. After I did mine I realized I should have put the toothpick in at an angle and not straight on that way they would rest it a little lower in the cup and I wouldn’t have to have it filled to the brim all the time. Oh well. 

Then in about 2-4 (I think, relying on memory) it should have roots come out the bottom and a little plant pop out the top! 

Here’s hoping first times a charm!! I will keep you updated on Mr. Pit’s progress and (hopefully) when he makes it to the second part (potting) I will share how to do it!