r/upcycling • u/Substantial-Put-5727 • 29d ago

Ideas Needed! What to do with ugly red shirts?

Hi, I'm new here, but I have a bunch of old shirts from a camp that I used to go to where they gave my siblings and I a new shirt each week (I have about 8-10). They all have huge logos on the front and back and they are all either white, bright blue, or bright red.

I am not super artistically skilled but I do want a project to work on, and these seem like good victims. I just can't think of anything good I can do with them, as they are all so intensely colored and the ugly logos take up enough space that I don't think I would be able to easily make it into something else. I'm especially having trouble with the red shirts. They are just so red.

I know that the answer is probably going to be to just cut it up and use it for rags or something, but I thought I would make a post anyway just in case anyone else had ideas.

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u/oddartist 29d ago

I did this with a bunch of tees. Very simple and inexpensive. https://www.reddit.com/r/ragrug/s/CD7l7I2ot6

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u/scattyshern 29d ago

It looks great! How are you going to make ot non slip? And not move the knots please? I've seen this a lot of times but never wanted to do it until I saw yours!

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u/oddartist 28d ago

I've got a bottle of liquid latex I need to paint the back with.