I started making skirts out of tshirts for myself in 2006, when my tshirt drawer was full but my new clothes budget was not. I soon found out that my tskirts were the most comfortable items in my wardrobe, they dressed up, they dressed down, they worked in every season, and they got the most compliments from total strangers of any clothing item I had ever worn.

I love tshirts - comfy, casual, and often quite personal as you can make a statement to the world about your favourite place, band, hobby . Regrettably, they are also very disposable . Those event or corporate tshirts in particular are worn once and thrown away. Do you know how much water went into growing that cotton, how much energy into weaving the fabric, how much ( barely paid) human toil went into sewing that dumb tshirt? Answer: too much! I like to think of my tskirts as giving that unwanted shirt another life, making the most of the resources that made it the first time around, just doing my one small thing towards saving the planet one stitch at time. People have been going on about the negative effects of human greed and waste on the environment for my entire life . I reckon it is past time to stop talking and start doing.