I'm crafty like a fox, but better since I have opposable thumbs.

Being an involved member of a sorority during college, I gained many things. Like t-shirts. Add those to the ridiculous amount of swimming t-shirts that I've been accruing since age eight, and you get an amount that's somewhere between "ouch" and "boing."

Movie reference, anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Okay.

I needed something to do with all of these shirts. Honestly some of them are kind of ugly and/or stained, so giving them away isn't really an option. Besides, I don't think anyone is going to want to wear a secondhand "2004 Girls' Swimming Conference Champ" shirt. And then, like a grail-shaped beacon on the horizon (movie reference, anyone?), I came across this post on Polk & 2nd, a craft blog written by a friend of my sister. The necklace tutorial in turn brought me to this entry, and I was inspired.

The first t-shirts I sacrificed were some oversized swimming shirts from my 10-and-under days and a neon yellow one that I figured I wouldn't miss if I screwed up horribly. After a laughable first attempt to cut a straight line, I used a ruled cutting mat and rolling cutter. WAY easier.

I like it despite the fact that it pretty much glows in the dark. The best part is the button I used for the center of the flower. I think I got it in one of those mystery jars of stuff that they sell for a few bucks at antique stores everywhere.

Next I tried making a longer one out of some t-shirt yarn I had made. I think it turned out pretty well, if a bit too short to double loop comfortably.

Next I upped the ante by actually using an outgrown "nice" t-shirt. I was rather pleased with how it turned out.

Since I determined that sewing the flower on the first necklace I made was a major pain in the tuckus, I made them tie-on instead. That way, I could move or remove them as I pleased and not stab myself in the finger repeatedly with a needle. A win-win situation if I ever saw one.

The most recent one I made was for my mom, and it's probably my favorite thus far. The flowers are still of the tie-on variety, but I sewed buttons on the part of the tie that sticks out of the front.

I'm probably going to end up with a million of these things.