Recycle old punk t-shirts into new clothes

I had several old tees from various punk bands I followed in high school that have shrunk while I have grown (rounder). I did not want to dust furniture with my youth, so I recycled the logos to sew onto some discount sweat shirts. I plan to pass these onto my niece since she is listening to all the bands I did. I did all the sewing by hand and was done in less than an hour.

Step 1 The canvas

Find a cheap sweat shirt, or use one you already have.

Comments

[dgerbrandt]

I'm currently working on a project to preserve an old Nomeansno shirt whose screen print is coming off in flakes. I'll be sewing the image cut out from the shirt onto a vest, and then I intend to hand-embroider the design over the shirt. It's either going to look fuvking cool or really lame. Probably cool because even shiddy DIY is usually awesome.

[Sagi]

Thank you! I have a real f***ed up holey (barb wires) sunbleached and fragile (from washing) old Misfits shirt that I just can't dump... now I know whats to do!

[wtf_steve]

Dead Kennedys in '05 were not the Dead Kennedys

[casemaster5]

your right they were just in it for the money. sadly thats what happens to punk bands these days.

[Yerboogieman]

I have an old Sublime shirt that has a few bleach stains and a few very small holes and I'm trying to decide whether to turn it into a patch or keep wearing it.

[xCoolYourJetsx]

nice, kinda like making your own back patch

[Yerboogieman]

yeah, dead kennedys!

[shaunamus]

its better this way cos its more DIY and punk clothings ment to be DIY

[DesignerUserName]

There's ALWAYS room for Jello!!

[saint.hate]

this is like, 40,000 punk rock points....

[astrozombies138]

Yess! I saw the dead kennedys in 05 at riot fest, with the dickies. Great instructable. Keep on listening to good music! oi oi oi

[iskandr]

For any DK or Jello fan, check out the "Live at the Deaf Club" album. It is a full show with great sound, I felt 15 again the first time I heard it.

[astrozombies138]

I'm 14 haha I saw the dead kennedys when I was 12 but there was no jello, the germs also played that year. Dude carl is your icon and you like the dead kennedys... your pretty amazing

[sugg22]

i'm a huge Dead Kennedys fan. much like your niece, I was born to late to enjoy them when they existed, but I really like them along with Operation Ivy, NoFX, the Clash, and of course, the Ramones.

[gamer]

dead kenedys! ya. nice instructable! -gamer

[GorillazMiko]

Awesome idea! My and my brother do this all the time, we get old ripped up shirts of ours, and make them into things like this, thanks for showing!