Shag Bag From Recycled T-Shirts

Step 3: Stretch Strips

Grab both ends of your strips, and stretch around a stationary object like your foot (long strips) or knee (short strips).  The strip will curl up nicely.

Running your hand along the strip to stretch it mostly results in rugurn; I got a much more efficient stretch using my foot, too.

Comments

[Tinker L]

Help! My strips won't curl! Yes, I'm cutting them with the stretch, but they just stretch out into flat-ish coarse textured useless hunks of jersey. What am I doing wrong, please?

[Tinker L]

p.s.: I tried 1" and 1-1/4" strips, cutting in the other direction, and started stretching gently then increased the tension.