How Do You Sew/Make Drawstring Bag Out Of Old T-Shirt-10 Pts. To Best Answer!?
If you don’t want a duffle/backpack bag, it’s tons easier. Figure out how big you want your bag to be. Put your gym clothes into the t-shirt and see how much too big it might or might not be. You’ll lose a little of the t-shirt to the sewing process. Once you know how big you want the bag to be, figure out what that is in inches — measure it with a tape measure to see. Write that down. Add 3″ to the length measurement, and write that down. If you are cutting it width-wise, too, add 1″ to width measurement and write it down. Circle the two numbers you just wrote down. (No, I don’t think you’re an idiot; this is the way I do things myself.) That’s what you’ll cut to. Lay the shirt (inside out, of course) on a firm flat sueface and carefully mark out the circled measurements. If the shirt has a pattern or print on it that you want visible on your bag, be sure to take that into account when you mark out your measurements. Lightly draw the cutting lines at those measurements if you need th