…compilation of tutorials
Aren’t those little skeins cute?
Exactly the right thing for wool addicted ;-)
Come to think of it, I mean that they are right as decoration for the gifts or Christmas trees of wool addicted ;-))
Links:
Skein Ornaments (YARN/KNITTING ORNAMENTS, WITH TUTE!!)
Christmas tree
Ok, ok, this ‘tealight holder’ isn’t meant as Advent wreath, where you light a(nother) candle every Advent Sunday but it would fit very well, wouldn’t it?
Perhaps one should lay some evergreen boughs aside… ;-))
I tried it with one of our multiple sockets and it simply didn’t look good because I couldn’t insert the tealight deep enough into the sockets because of the noses inside, so I will go back to a traditional Advent wreath this year again ;-)
Links:
Modern Advent Wreath (Light up)
If you want to know more about Advent wreaths in Germany and perhaps even want to make one yourself, check out Christmas Craft Projects – Advent Wreath and How to Make Natural Green Wreaths on the same site.
Actually I prefer photo tutorials to video tutorials because I can look at photos as long and close as I want, but I find the instruction for a quick bag out of a t-shirt so great that I wanted to present it anyhow.
The way she’s making it it really takes only five minutes to make from the t-shirt a nice bag where the flap still can be embellished, e.g. with embroideries, but also with Freeform pieces crocheted extra for the flap or bead embroidered Paisleys or crochet squares or (paper) flowers or whatever you can think about ;-))
(By the way, I ‘nicked’ the photo from the entry T-Shirt Yarn ;-))
Links:
Quick-Dirty-Cheap: Upcycled T-Shirt Mini Messenger – (Video)
Here at unikatissima:
Entries with the tag ’embroidery’
Entries with the tag ‘crochet’
Entries with the tag ‘flowers’
Freeform Needlework
Bead embroidered Paisleys
T-Shirt Yarn
crochet medaillon
I presented some instructions already where plastic bottles are ‘processed’.
I find this here remarkable anyhow because she shows how to make a wire from a plastic bottle!
Links:
How to Make a Wire from a Plastic Bottle
via: A new twist on recycling a plastic soda bottle into a stem or necklace
via: art for housewives
Here at unikatissima:
Entries containing the word ‘plastic bottle’
These fabric covered beads aren’t the same as the fabric beads or the knotted fabric beads, but fabric covered wooden beads.
I like them :)
Links:
how to of the day: fabric covered beads
Here at unikatissima:
Making Fabric Beads
Knotted Fabric Buttons and Beads
Doesn’t the Elephants spiral look cute?
However considering my physique I’d better embroider other animals, or flowers or even Paisleys ;-)
Links:
Embroidered Rainbow Elephants Spiral (*new black shirt* Rainbow elephants spiralling into space)
Google image search result for ‘flower embroidery pattern’
Google image search result for ‘paisley embroidery pattern’
Na, doesn’t this sock necklace look great?! ;-)
And about the advent calendar: you can insert here easily little paper strips into the socks just as for the simple spool advent calendar and wham!, ready is your advent calendar ;-))
So, that’ve been the advent calendar ideas for this year, now you may begin…
;-))
Links:
socks necklace
More photos of recycled socks of tabychan
via: tabychan recycled work
via: Fiber Jewelery – Summer Fashion
via: art for housewives
Here at unikatissima:
Simple Spool Advent Calendar
Entries with the tag ‘advent calendar’
I’m always impressed by all the great ideas out there: This time it’s about sewing yourself a pillow from paper napkins matching your home furnishings!
Seen like this it would be great for a picnic or similar, too: you can take pillows with you that match the other napkins ;-)
She said that the pillows are amazingly strong, somewhen I really have to try this ;-))
Links:
Thrifty Paper Napkin Pillow
I told already that want to lose weight before I will crochet the bolero but I don’t find it easy.
How much better must it be if the scales tell me that my weight is ‘perfect’?
;-)
She made the scales with glass mosaic tiles but I think that it should be possible with selfmade mosaic tiles from polymer clay or glass paints or from plaster, resp. Or of course with a paper collage, best as paper crazy quilt. Or with eggshells.
;-))
Links:
Scales (Perfect Scale: Mosaic)
More scales (Perfect Scale Commision)
Here at unikatissima:
Crocheted Bolero
Mosaic from Plaster
Mosaic Table Light
Paper Crazy Quilt
Eggshell Mosaics
Such a great idea again: simply begin just as for the coiled paper basket but stop quite soon and make from the rolls little pieces of jewelry.
I really have to try it with the folded paper strips of equal width!
Links:
Paper Roll Jewelry (Kind of a half-baked idea, but still…)
Here at unikatissima:
Coiled Paper Basket
Folded Paper Strips of Equal Width