Sunday, June 3, 2012

DIY Racerback Tank $0!

Reuse, Reduce, Recycle...I feel like that was banged into my head my entire childhood and now into adulthood.  I'm good at the recyle part.  We have a recylcing bin that even the tiniest scrap of paper gets tossed into in my classroom and I have stopped using plastic water bottles...now I have a sweet blue reusable bottle that is pretty much with me at ALL times.  Other than the water bottle, the reusable part has been tricky for me. 

However, today I was "Pinteresting" in between laying on the couch blowing my nose and coughing I found a great idea for a DIY racerback workout tank.  Now I've been scouring the Sunday newspaper ads and found exercise tanks to be priced at more than I want to pay, even on sale.  So I can't tell you how excited I was to find a DIY workout tank for $0.  Yes that's ZERO dollars.  How??  Well, you scrounge around in your dresser to find an oldie but a goodie t-shirt.  I chose one of the 8 free Relay for Life t-shirts I have collected over the years.  Then all you need is a pair of scissors and a pencil.  I'm thinking, "YES!  I have both of those items!!!"  But wait, it gets better!  I don't even have to sew!  Now that's the best part really.  I would LOVE to learn how to sew, but I'm not quite ready to take on that challenge yet.  Anyway, you just cut a little here and a little there are BAM!  You are done! 

Here's the awesome tutorial from a different Laura at http://trashplanet.blogspot.com/2011/04/make-it-tutorial-gathered-racerback.html

How I started...



How it turned out...



Racerback #1



Racerback #2



The back...



Ta da!

The tutorial has you sew the fastener part on the back, but I just tied it in a really secure double knot. 
I think it worked out pretty well.

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