So this month I am mainly obsessing over tshirt yarn!I think there is another blog post in there somewhere but today I am going to show you how to make this cute little tshirt yarn crochet bowl. These bowls make great dressing table tidies - fill em up with hair bands or cotton wool balls. Or sweeties (it is ok to have sweeties on your dressing table, isn't it?) or, as I have done, with hazelnuts Roo collected from Nonny's garden...
The original pattern I used for this bowl on can be found here - I have just converted it into UK crochet terms.
You will need
One large tshirt made into tshirt yarn
10mm crochet hook
crochet terms - ch = chain htr = half treble ss = slip stitch
R1 ch3, join to make a ring. ch2 (this counts as first htr) 9htr into ring, ss to 2nd ch to join
R2 ch2, htr into same stitch, 2htr into each stitch, ss join to 2nd ch (20 stitches)
R3 ch2 *htr in next stitch, 2htr in following stitch* repeat to end, ss join to 2nd ch (30 stitches)
R4 ch2, htr into each stitch to end, ss join to 2nd ch
repeat round 4 as many times as you like until you reach the desired depth of your bowl. The bowl illustrated has 4 repeats.
And there you have it.
Use narrower strips of tshirt yarn and a smaller hook to make a smaller bowl.
Or double up the yarn and use a HUGE hook for a super chunky bowl that could serve as a toy tidy.
Make a set in toning colours or even dye plain white shirts before cutting them up to perfectly co-ordinate with your decor.
The best thing is you are turning something old into something lovely and new...and useful too!
Like this project? Keep your eyes peeled (or better still follow this blog via bloglovin ) for more tshirt yarn projects coming soon!
I made mine with double crochet for a tighter stitch. Also circles are really easy to adapt to different sizes. Just add one more stitch between increasing on each round.
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