…compilation of tutorials
I surfed the net and learned to my astonishment that you can make your own oilcloth – from fabric and self-adhesive sheets for covering books.
However I heard that sewing on self-adhesive sheets can make the sewing needles sticky, on the other hand the stickiness will be ironed there so perhaps it’s no more poblem.
Wow, an idea again that I really appreciate: take a phone book, roll it up and fix it with a ring of a nature what-so-ever and done is the card holder!
The silver coloured ring looks quite good, but I imagine that it would look as good when you wrap your card holder with wire, plastic, beautiful yarns or fabrics or when you slip a poymer clay ring over, the only thing to make sure is that you fix everything well.
And in place of the Yellow Pages you can use as well coloured ads or paper – neatly stacked – or books where you removed the cover.
Links:
Card Holder (Reusing Yellow pages) – they’re linking to another website but I didn’t find the Card Holder on the other web page
Here at unikatissima:
Entries with the tag ‘ring’
Entries with the tag ‘wire’
Entries with the tag ‘plastic’
Entries with the tag ‘books’
Again a scarf from scraps ;-)
But this time it’s not only about scraps nor scarves: It’s about this technique, where you arrange fabric pieces and/or yarns on water-soluble sheet, where you make it ‘unslippable’ by spraying it with fabric glue where necessary, where you cover it with water-soluble sheet again and then sew more or less wildly in all directions to connect all elements with each other.
After rinsing it (thoroughly!) you get a more or less delicate fabric that you can use as scarf like on the photo, but you can also make a top top top or a one-of-a-kind vest one-of-a-kind vest poncho from.
There is even a book that shows how you can mix this technique with felting.
I really must do this once ;-)
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I’ve seen several mini dress-form jewelry stands already but I find an instruction on how to make it yourself muuuch better ;-)
I really have to take a look for appropriate dolls at my next junk market visit ;-)
Links:
Mini Dress-Form Jewelry Stand
Recently I found the instruction on how to make those ruffles – I always wanted to know how to make them.
Unfortunately I can’t work them because my poor old sewing machine don’t know how to zigzag, but at least I know now how it works ;-))
I love scarves but they never look the way I want them to.
Now I found the scarf tying guide which is a great help to me.
I must admit: Literally it is no craft instruction but concerning me: Illiterally it is, because I always broke my fingers on scarf tying ;-))
Links:
Scarf Tying Guide
This little doll conquered my heart immediately! :)
I will have to see if I find the right fabric for it ;-)
Links:
Photo: Silly Little Doll
Pattern: Silly Little Doll Pattern
After having presented clothesline crochet and clothesline knitting I have now ‘clothesline sewing’ ;-)
The point here is to take a cord and at the same time cover it with fabric and coil a basket from the whole thing just as with the ‘real’ basket coiling.
I find the little baskets absolutely cute, but I have a sewing machine so old that it doesn’t even have a zig zag stitch and I won’t do this by hand! ;-)
Links:
Clothesline Sewing – A Fabric Bowl (How to Sew a Fabric Bowl)
via: craftster: Coiled Fabric Bowls!
via: craftster: Rainbowl! Rainbow Coiled Bowl and Coasters
Here at unikatissima:
Clothesline Crochet
Clothesline Knitting or Filled I-cord
Coil a Basket
I just wanted to try ‘real’ embroidery (viz. not on paper ;-)) and had to find out how actually to begin and to end (on paper I simply glue on the threads but I thought that this must be done differently on fabric ;-)).
I found great instructions that helped a lot.
After my first experience with the v-neck of my t-shirt I think that I will embroider more often on fabric ;-)
Links:
Starting and Ending Threads
Here at unikatissima: Entries with the tags ’embroidery’ and ‘paper’
Once when I took a look at instructables I found the instruction Paper, Plastic, or Furoshiki? which fascinated me: Japanese use since a long time a cloth to wrap all sorts of things, as well to transport as to decorate them. And the Japanese Minister for Environment created an initiative to reduce waste to propagate Furoshiki as an ecological wrapping.
When making a little research I found even more Furoshiki folding instructions.
On the photos I wrapped four apples in a dishcloth – I just didn’t have a bandana or an old pillow case ;-) at hand.
In principle the dish cloth can be used but the knots get too big and it’s simply not the real McCoy.
Wikipedia says that the ‘real’ Furoshiki cloth are from cottom, rayon, nylon, a fabric called ‘chirimen’ or silk, in either case they are thinner and thus better to be knotted.
Also the sizes seem to be of a great variety, sure, you’ve always something different to wrap ;-)
Anyhow, I will try this more often :)
When researching I found also a nice idea: to wrap a gift for someone into an interesting cloth and include a printout of the diagram of the Japanese Ministry of the Environment.
I like this ;-)
Links:
At instructables: Paper, Plastic, or Furoshiki?
Wikipedia entry for ‘Furoshiki’ (English) (I haven’t found a German entry)
Initiative for waste reduction (‘Mottainai Furoshiki’) of the Japanese Ministry of the Environment
Furoshiki folding diagram of the Japanese Ministry of the Environment
Blog entry with the nice idea about wrapping a gift
Google search result for ‘Furoshiki’
Google image search result for ‘Furoshiki’