This is about making quickly a package from a paper bag that can easily be shipped.
Category: Miscellaneous
Plaster Candle Plate
Recycled Lamps
Well, aren’t these lamps great? ;-)
Links:
Recycled Lamps (Sagolikt svängiga lampor) (Swedish)
via: Stimmungsvolles Recycling
Toilet Paper Tube as Window Stopper
That’s no big deal, but helpful ;-):
To prevent our windows from slamming shut, we latterly fold two toilet paper tubes and squeeze them under the frame.
They have the advantage of not being too rigid and so not break the frame, but they are (although not beautiful) functional ;-))
Knitting Lifeline
That’s a brilliant idea: when you knit lace (but not only there) thread from time to time a different coloured, best slick thread through the stitches as lifeline.
If you have to frog, this thread makes sure that the stitches won’t frog further and I think that it should be easier to pick up the stitches, too.
But also, if you loose a stitch, it can’t go further than the lifeline.
I’m amazed! :))
Links:
The Lifeline
Blocking Lace
You can find many hints in internet on how to block knitted lace, I wanted to show you how I did.
- You can see the Advent calendar shawl on the picture:
- I still had two aluminium rods (1) of 5 mm diameter and 2 m length at home, which I threaded through the edge stitches.
- Then I thoroughly soaked the shawl in water and hang up the upper rod (2).
- I hang up weights (3) with S-hooks,…
- …where the weights where little plastic bags with paper tissue packages (4).
- Here the details again:
- (1) is the lower rod,
- (2) are the edge stitches where I threaded the rod through,
- (3) is one of the S-hooks and
- (4) the weight: the plastic bag with the paper tissue packages.
This way both rods are pulled apart and the shawl is blocked.
But the technique isn’t perfect: I’d have needed rods for the short sides of the shawl, too, that should have been attached to the long rods, but I didn’t have the time.
That’s why the short sides of my Advent calendar shawl are slightly worn out, but it’s not soo bad.
In a similar way you can do this with a triangle shawl: I threaded the same aluminium rods then above (1) through the holes I’ve knitted at the edge.
Then I added an S-hook with the weight in the last hole to really drag the points down.
I soaked everything in water and placed it on the ground.
The weight of the water drags down the center so that I didn’t need any weight there and it didn’t wear out as much as the rectangular shawl.
By the way, I covered the ground with a plastic cover because I didn’t want to wade through puddles ;-)
To see how others block their lace, simply search for blocking knit lace or stricken (spitze OR ajour OR lochmuster) spannen in German (results not so good).
Links:
Google search result for ‘blocking knit lace’
Google search result for ‘stricken (spitze OR ajour OR lochmuster) spannen’
Here at unikatissima:
Advent calendar shawl
Note: After Christmas I will offer it in just one file ;-)
Different Woven Hearts
Up until now I must admit that I found woven hearts rather silly, but I find these here amazing!
Thanks for the hint, Monika!
That’s my favourite heart.
I folded it 2x already, but then I gave them away without taking photos.
Links:
Different Woven Hearts (Flettede julehjerter) (Danish)
Wine Charms
Usually these wine charms aren’t my cup of tea, but I thought that they’d be great as gift tags ;-))
Glass Paint Votive
Ok, ok, a votive again ;-), but I find this winter village votive really beautiful, too :))
If you try very hard you can make 24 of these and assemble as Advent calendar.
I think that today it’s too narrow for this, but I had the idea too late.
But then, this way you’ll have enough time to design the Advent calendar for next year ;-))
Links:
The original site doesn’t exist any more and is now available through webarchive: Glass Paint Votive (WiCo* und Serviettentechnik) (German)
* Wico is Window Colours. These are those glass paints that come in plastic bottles and can be used on acetate sheets, I don’t know the exact English name.
Google translation of the article
Here at unikatissima:
Entries containing the word ‘votive’
Glass-in-Glass Votive
The tutorial is now unfortunately only to be find in webarchive (without photos), but I found the idea so good that I wanted to present it here anyhow.
I think that it should work as well with taping thin paper on the glass instead of frosting it.
Nice, isn’t it?
Links:
The original site doesn’t exist any more and is now available through webarchive: Anleitung Votiv -Glas im Glas (German)