Category: Miscellaneous

Concerning unikatissima

From today on there are two improvements at unikatissima:

  1. is unikatissima a little older already and can get ‘historical’ ;-))
    Therefore I put a link (This day last year) in the right navigation bar which you can use to see the ‘historical’ (but in no way out-of-date! ;-)) entry.
  2. I want to improve unikatissima and put therefore some little hearts at the end of every entry with which you can rate the entry with one click only and totally anonymous (if you don’t see any little hearts please click the title of the entry, you can find them at the end near the comments).
    This way I can learn what you and the other readers like without you having to make a fuss.
    So please rate the entries if you like them – I didn’t even think that you could not like them ;-))

Anyway I wish you a lot of fun with the old and the new tutorials :))

Clothesline Sewing – A Fabric Bowl

CraftStylish Clothesline Sewing-Sew A Fabric Bowl

Links of entry

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

Oil Lamp

unikatissima Oil Lamp

Links of entry

On the photo you see an oil lamp from an espresso cup, plain, cheap cooking oil and cotton. On the page with the instruction there are more but I always wanted to try this one.

 

And I learned a lot:

  • The tip of the cotton must peep out a good piece and be well twisted, otherwise the flame is too small (as you can see on the photo).
  • If the cotton is soaked it is quite difficult to bring it to burn (but be always careful anyhow!).
  • My ‘Espresso lamp’ burned about seven hours (!).
  • It hardly smelled.
 

unikatissima Oil Lamp
But: I always have to keep an eye on it: At the end when the oil was nearly burned the cotton began to burn and the cup was very, very hot and totally sooted.
Fortunately it didn’t break.

Part of the soot was ‘only smudgy’ and I could wipe it away, but part of it was kind of burned in and it took me the time of a whole motion picture (and lots of force!) to get the cup clean again.

Anyhow I will do this again because it is reasonably priced and beautiful.
Perhaps I will drip some drops of essential oil into, but first I must find out what puts off midges ;-)


Links:
Oil Lamp (Make Lamps–Not Vinaigrette)

Tower Boxes

Winson Chan Tower Box

Links of entry

I like to fold Origami boxes but these are even better: you can stack them.

Once I folded them and used them for little beads but by now I have thrown them away.
Actually it’s a pity.

 


Links:
Mike’s Origami – Origami Diagram Links – Boxes and Containers => click ‘Tower Boxes’ (PDF, ca. 82 KB)

Here at unikatissima:
Entries with the tag ‘box’
Entries with the tag ‘origami’
Folded boxes:
Paper Matchbox Slide Box
Curved Box not only for an Advent Calendar

Seed Starters

Frugal Seed Starters

Links of entry

I’m a city kid with a brown thumb (all my plants have a very short life) and I don’t have the slightest idea whether I’m too late but I wanted to present it anyhow:

If you seed plants and need seed starters you can buy them.
But you can make them easily yourself: from newspaper, egg shells or egg carton.
Great, isn’t?


Links:
Newspaper Seedling Packs
Eggshell Seed Starters
Egg Carton Seed Starters

Google search result for ‘frugal seed starter’
Google image search result for ‘frugal seed starter’

Self-made Fabric Print Stamp Pad

jezze Fabric Print Stamp Pad

Links of entry

Somewhen I also want to try fabric printing and then the instruction on how to make a fabric print stamp pad will come handy.

I think that it should also be usable as ‘normal’ ink pad, I should try this sometime.


Links:
Self-made Fabric Print Stamp Pad (‘Tech’ update)

Here at unikatissima: Entries with the tag ‘stamping’

Gourd Purses

allfreecrafts Gourd Purses

Links of entry

I don’t remember what I was searching for, but then I found the tips and hints for making gourd purses.
Wow!
A little more research showed more gourd crafts at the same site and even a site only dedicated to the subject of making your own gourd purse making your own gourd purse.
There you can find more instructions, for coiled rims from seagrass coiled rims from seagrass or pine needles pine needles e.g.

I find them all most beautiful but (fortunately?!) ;-)) I can’t get no gourds, otherwise I could be tempted to try this, too ;-)


Links:
At All Free Crafts:

At Southeast Texas Gourd Patch (see left navigation bar there):

Tutorial moved:
At Southeast Texas Gourd Patch (see left navigation bar there):

Google search result for ‘gourd purse’
Google image search result for ‘gourd purse’

Here at unikatissima: Coil a Basket