…compilation of tutorials
When I saw the knitted video for the first time, I was sitting there with my jaw dropped.
That didn’t look very beautiful (me, not the video! ;-)).
Anyhow: I’m toootally amazed about.
And I won’t never, ever try to knit such a thing by myself ;-))
(I know, I know, it is machine knitted.
Even so ;-))
Links:
Knitted Video (With a name like “Knitting Machine”…)
(English, Songtext French)
via: ravelry group ‘needlework on the net’
Well, isn’t it a great idea making salt and pepper shakers from film containers?
It would be quite the right thing if you want to have salt and pepper at a picnic, isn’t it?
Although it gets now much to cold here for such events ;-))
Links:
Salt & pepper
Sometimes it would be great, if you could enter your own hand writing by keyboard, e.g. when creating greeting cards.
You have the chance now: you print a form, enter the appropriate letters, scan the sheet and upload it at fontcapture.
Then you should get back your handwriting as font.
I didn’t let make it yet because my handwriting is so botched at the moment that I don’t want to get it ;-))
As a matter of principle you should be able to ‘put a lot on the keyboard’, even little sketches.
I really have to try it on occasion!
The gift tags on the photo aren’t ready yet: I simply can’t decide with which yarn I should wrap them.
But I find the idea really great: flatten the cardboard tube, cut it in strips and wrap the pieces with yarn.
I think that it could look beautiful, too, when wrapped in a piece of beautiful polymer clay and worn as necklace, earring or pin.
Hm.
When reading the instructions for the gift tags I had to think somehow at the surprise ball gifts ;-)
But she had other ideas, too, about what to make with these paper shapes, namely a cute tealight and an interesting lamp decoration.
I presented before entries about recycled cardboard tubes here in this blog, namely the beaded amulet bag, the plaster photo holder and the knitting loom from a plastic bottle.
But there the cardboard tube was ‘only’ a tool.
Links:
recycling project no. 19 – yarn gift tag
recycle project no. 12 – tealight decoration
recycle project no. 16 – hurricane cover
Here at unikatissima:
Surprise Ball Gifts
Beaded Amulet Bag
Plaster Photo Holder
Knitting Loom from Plastic Bottle
What about a really individual storage solution?
Simple, expressive and easily to be adapted to your needs.
Or something like this ;-)
Anyway it’s different than buying, isn’t it? ;-))
I can imagine how this ‘shelf’ would look hanging directly beside the juice rack ;-))
Links:
DIY : storage
Here at unikatissima:
Juice Rack
I find this idea of making palm trees from candy really great again!
She suggests in her instruction to use the technique for ‘suckable’ Christmas wreaths.
Then it should be possible to make edible Halloween wreaths as well?! ;-)
If you want to have other shapes than leaves you can use the home-built 3-D printer ;-)
And as addition to the wreaths you can make the candy shot glasses.
I think that it would be as well interesting to try the special shapes from aluminium foil or the positive moulds from pebbles.
And somehow the whole thing should be possible to be made with chocolade instead of candy, just as the edible stucco, don’t you think so?
Well, somehow this all would be very interesting, wouldn’t it? ;-)
Links:
Life Saver 3-D sugar sculpture made easy! (tute)
Here at unikatissima:
Home-built 3-D Printer
Candy Shot Glasses
Edible Stucco
Special Shape Castings
Making Positive Plaster Moulds
I simply don’t know why I’m so about racks at the moment, especially because I don’t need any.
They seem to be extra ‘susceptible’ to creative treatment ;-))
I, for one find the rack from clothes hangers fun :)
Links:
Rack from Clothes Hangers (Garderobe: Raffinierte Deko-Idee) (German)
Here at unikatissima: Juice Rack
I found a tutorial on how to tie-dye paper that is similar to my self coloured tissue papers but with the advantage that you dye proper stiff paper.
I have to try this, too ;-)
Links:
Tie-Dye Paper
Here at unikatissima: Self Coloured Tissue Papers
Don’t they look beautiful?
These pompoms are all made from coffee filters – and it seems to be quite easy.
In addition I’ve found a tutorial for a necklace from coffee filters which I also found great, even though I’d prefer it as a pin ;-)
But I wouldn’t know where to put such decorations ;-))
Links:
Coffee Filter Pompoms Part 1 (i’m crushing on coffee filters)
Coffee Filter Pompoms Part 2 (coffee filter love continues…)
via: Recycled Crafts @ CraftGossip
Coffee filter necklace (How-to transform a coffee filter into a dreamy neck piece…)
I always like the simple yet striking ideas and this cork vase is for me one of them: simply take a ready-made glass vase and decorate with self-adhesive cork :)
Links:
Cork Vase (Think Outside the Bottle 1: Flower Vase)
Here at unikatissima: Entries with the tag ‘vase’