How to reduce the size of a T-shirt?

What to do if you got a T-shirt and it turned out to be big? So it would be unpleasant to throw out a new good thing, but you do not want to postpone it for the future. Do not worry, there is a way out. As they say, better is more, than less. And in this article, we'll tell you a few techniques on how to reduce the size of T-shirts at home. Here the most effective and proven methods, advice and recommendations will be presented. Unfortunately, there are not so many methods, but worth a try!

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Hot water

If your shirt is made of cotton fabric, then with hot water you easily solve your problem and reduce the shirt to the size you need.

Important! Natural fibers can shrink when exposed to hot water, so this method is very effective, and, importantly, cheap.

Observe a clear procedure for achieving the desired result:

1. In a large saucepan, pour water and boil it.
2. Next you need to drop a thing into this water, but be careful:
   • To reduce the size of a T-shirt by 1-2 sizes, dip it into the water immediately after boiling.
   • To reduce by 0.5-1 the size, dip the t-shirt 3-5 minutes after boiling.
   • To reduce by ¼ - ½ the size, wait 15 minutes before wetting the thing.
3. Leave the item in hot water for 20 minutes. But do not forget that the longer the T-shirt will be in boiling water, the stronger it will sit.
4. Pour out the water, squeeze the T-shirt and let it dry.

Important! When working with boiling water, be extremely careful not to damage your health, do not burn yourself.

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Washer / dryer

The way to reduce the size of clothes with a washing machine and dryer can not be forgotten. After all, this is really a method that does not require any effort from you and helps to achieve the desired size of your thing. All you need to do is carefully follow the instructions below:

1. Wash things in the washing machine in hot water.
2. According to technologists, the shrinkage of things does not happen because of the temperature of the water when washing, or hot steam during drying, but during mixing inside.
3. Next, leave the T-shirt in the dryer and dry it thoroughly.

Important! Remember that the narrowing of things does not happen because of hot steam, but with mixing, so you can set the average temperature of the .

1. If you failed to achieve the result from the first try, repeat the procedure again.

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Sewing a T-Shirt

If none of the above methods is suitable for you, in order to reduce the size of the T-shirt by yourself, you can try to sew a thing. This will be a longer method and you need to spend enough time and energy to do it.

So, to get the result exactly the one you dream about, follow these instructions:

1. Where do I start? Well, of course, with fitting and determining how big a thing is to you. Immediately mark with chalk or soap places that need to be sewed. And also, for convenience it is possible to put control points.

Important! The control points are on the armhole, on the waist line and at the bottom of the product.

1. In order not to waste a lot of time on ripping things off, cut off the overlock that goes along the edges of the slices. But do not overdo or cut too much, strictly 0.6-0.7 cm behind the line
2. Next, carefully lay out the t-shirt and completely mark the sewing line, and then combine the opposite edges of the T-shirt to smoothly apply the line and after sewing the thing was symmetricalat both sides.
3. Use pins to assemble the fabric that you need to remove. After all the lines have combined and marked them, make allowance for the seam - approximately 0.7-1 cm.
4. Then cut off the excess fabric with scissors taking into account the allowance for the seam. Consider this near the waist, and near the shoulder area. While doing the sleeves, do the same. Align the face of the T-shirt and sleeve and chamfer the sleeve, starting in the shoulder area and below.
5. Scribble start from the lowest point of the product, going over to the sleeve - repeat this on both sides. Once you have all sewn, you must have 4 overlays of the overlock, which can be cut or sewed into the inside of the product.

Important! Since this is a painstaking enough, hard and exacting work to reduce the size of the T-shirts, is advised to start with methods that are performed many times faster and easier.

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Useful tips:

• If you have several cotton things that you want to reduce, wash them together, not separately. This will save your time.
• Do not overdo it. Since if you overstrain a thing in hot water, you can reduce the size of the thing too much, and then look for answers to the question of how to stretch clothes if it has sat down after washing.
• To prevent colored clothing from fading, add a glass of white vinegar to a large pot of water. This will help preserve the color of the product.
• Not all types of fabric can be reduced. Best of all, these methods work on cotton, as well as some types of wool
• Do not reduce t-shirts with a picture, as most likely the paint will simply flow and it will ruin the whole thing.

So, if you carefully read the article and followed all the advice, instructions and directions, then the problems associated with reducing clothing by several sizes should absolutely not be. We hope that you have brought a lot of new, informative and, of course, useful, from this note and in the future you will not have any problems if you need to reduce the size of the T-shirt. Now you do not need to postpone your favorite, but big things like in a "black box", because you already know how to solve this problem quickly and cheaply.