Actually painting my nails right now, and using the drying time between coats to play on the internet. Thought I'd do a short post about my most recent craft project because I know it will be short.
So, we all have those T-shirts that we save and save but never wear. Don't lie, you have at least one. Maybe they're too small, maybe they're out of style, maybe they were for an event and now it's weird to wear them. That last one was me. I had a shirt that my mom made me for our rehearsal dinner. Pretty sentimental and obviously couldn't be just thrown out, but really not appropriate to wear around all the time.
See what I mean? So after moving here to the beach, it occurred to me while sitting at home with nothing to do but obsessively check websites for job postings that I could make a beach bag out of the shirt and it would be perfect! It would be washable, I would get to keep the shirt without feeling like it was wasting space, and it would save me having to buy a bag to take all our stuff to the beach! Perfect! So I browsed a few tutorials on Pinterest and they all had slightly different ways of doing basically the same thing: somehow close the bottom of the shirt, cut of the sleeves, and cut out the neckline. Rather than follow any one pattern, I figured I'd wing it. I turned the shirt inside out and hand stitched the bottom together just under the original seam. Then I turned it right side out again to do the cutting. I cut the sleeves just outside of the seams. From there I decided how wide I wanted the straps and then cut down and across just above the lettering. Pretty satisfied with my final product. We've already used it a couple time and it easily fits both our towels, keys, sunscreen, a water bottle, and phones.
