The shirt off my back

I've certainly been excited over a luscious skein of yarn or a beautiful piece of fabric, but this new venture has me eying grubby old t-shirts with a "Well, hello there..."
This involves stencils and snipping and paint and some very therapeutic hand stitching. I was inspired by and am still mildly obsessed with this book.

Having exhausted my own drawer of t-shirts, I was tempted to rifle through the rest of the house, looking for anything cotton jersey. But I restrained my klepto inclined behavior and went to Goodwill instead. With their never ending supply of castoff shapeless sacks of cotton, I will be able to support my habit of destroying and then reshaping things.
I recently started an epic project in this vein that I will share later; but here is a sample of the simpler things I've worked on - this, among a few other, similar re-purposing/updating projects is what I've been crafting lately.

This particular project is a bandana. I cut two old t-shirts into two big triangles, the top layer is stenciled on then the two layers are stitched together following the edge of the stencil. Then I cut through the top layer in the pattern to let the underneath peek through. You can see how the possibilities are quite endless.