…compilation of tutorials
Doesn’t this fabric bowl look beautiful?
And it seems to be quite easy to make (although I often underestimate such things ;-)).
Unfortunately I won’t be able to make it just as the other clothesline fabric bowl because my sewing machine still can’t make the zig zag stitch.
Links:
How To Make a FABRIC BOWL
Here at unikatissima: Clothesline Sewing – A Fabric Bowl
I find the idea of making a bread basket from bread dough great ;-)
Particularly because I wanted (somewhen!) work with play dough again.
Links:
Bread Bread Basket (A -bread- basket (Made from bread))
Recently I told that there were times when I didn’t know how to make good photos.
Now I learned that curious ground squirrels must be taken in regard when taking photos with delayed-action shutter release ;-)))
Links:
Photo enthusiasts go nuts for squirrel’s holiday snap
Wikipedia entry for ‘ground squirrel’
Here at unikatissima:
Taking Photos from Jewelry
Skinner Blend Beads Necklace
I had some tutorials concerning ‘plastic bottles’ before, but I find this one still special: I would never have had the idea to work a plastic bottle this way!
Links:
Plastic Bottle Vase (Recycle a Plastic Bottle into a Vase)
Here at unikatissima:
Entries containing the word ‘plastic bottle’
Ususally I’m not interested in stiffening crochet items because I don’t make ornaments.
But when I saw the lamp I knew that I was lost ;-))
I haven’t made much research until now, but via the Google search and the Google image search I have found at least ‘About Stiffeners’ where there are a lot of recipes and instructions and even tips on how to reshape an item where necessary.
Let’s see what I will make…
;-)
Links:
Ball shaped crocheted lamp shade – you must also see the following pictures
via: ravelry project
About Stiffeners – there also hints about reshaping of an item
Google search result for ‘starch crochet’
Google image search result for ‘starch crochet’
Sometimes you need a big funnel – why not cutting the top of a plastic bottle and use this?
I find this instruction great again: with little means reaching something practical and additionally recycling :)
By the way you can use those funnels, too, when pouring little beads from one container to the other, I don’t like to use my kitchen funnels for this.
Incidentally you can use up the rest of your bottle, too ;-)
Links:
Plastic Funnel (Never buy plastic funnels again!)
Here at unikatissima: Entries containing the word ‘plastic bottle’
I always like to look for boxes and I like the hexagonal box very much – just as much as the Washi box because they have both this ‘extra box on the inside’.
Coming soon! ;-)
Links:
Hexagonal Box (Sekskantet papæske Hexagonal box) (Danish and Englisch) – the first text is always Danish, the English text follows in italic font
Here at unikatissima:
Make a Washi Box
Entries with the tag ‘box’
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
There are people who knit socks (I am not one of them ;-)) and they can probably do with an extra foot ;-)
And cut always veeery careful…
;-)
Links:
Duct Tape Foot Tutorial
I found two tutorials on how to make a hairpin lace loom (see links below) and because I hadn’t the appropriate material at hand (in fact that’s strange seeing all the stuff I have lying here about ;-)) I did it a little different:
I took two toilet paper tubes, cut them lengthwise, rolled them up strongly and taped them all around.
Then I pricked two metal kebeb skewers through those thick cardboard rolls: my hairpin lace loom was done!
;-)
At last I could give hairpin lace a try and it – worked.
That is to say that I haven’t read the hairpin lace instruction at stichdiva thoroughly(!) and therefore it didn’t work in the beginning.
They write ‘Insert hook under thread of topmost loop’, but for me it isn’t the topmost thread (blue arrow) but the foremost thread (red arrow).
After I took the foremost thread everything worked fine.
At the moment I don’t have the time for it but in future I will play around with hairpin lace :)
Links:
Instructions for self-made hairpin lace looms:
Instruction at ehow – from metal
there you can find further down (Resources) links to hair pin lace tutorials
Instruction at Little Projects – from bamboo skewers and hot glue sticks
via: DIY Hairpin Lace Loom: the link isn’t available no more.
Tutorial for base hairpin lace at stitchdiva
Google search result for ‘hair pin lace’
Google image search result for ‘hair pin lace’
Google search result for ‘Gabelhäkelei’
Google image search result for ‘Gabelhäkelei’