…compilation of tutorials
I found a tutorial on easy plaster casting.
The point is mainly to create the mold of a star or the like from aluminium foil and to cast it with plaster.
Even if it is filed under ‘kids crafts’, I find the idea interesting.
I did it once, but I can’t find back my item ;-(
At that time I made a mold with a rounded bottom.
To fix it thoroughly (to prevent the plaster to ‘run away’) I put the aluminium foil mold into a layer of flour.
Sand would be as well.
Links:
Special Shape Castings
As said before, I like to play around with weaving.
The other day I thought: Why not weave a ring?
I think that it worked out amazingly good ;-))
Material:
What to do:
Wind the yarn around the finger replacement and knot.
Then wind the next round, in doing so pass the yarn under itself.
Repeat the last step as long as you reach the ring’s width.
Now begin to weave: pass the yarn over and under the threads.
And that’s how the rings can look.
You have now a ring that you can embellish, e.g. with buttons or beads.
This technique surely can be enhanced, but it is fun already :)
Have fun!
I find another interesting technique basket coiling, where a long thread from (nearly ;-)) any material is to be wound around a curled up thread (also from nearly any material).
It is similar to the clothesline crochet that I presented before, but the thread is to be wound, not crocheted.
On the photo you see my first attempt: I wound plastic raffia around package string.
Actually it should have become a basket, but then I lost my patience ;-)
I followed two tutorials that I find very good, not least because they are heavily illustrated: Pine Needle Baskets (there is also a second part (for the new links see the links below) (and How to coil a basket. In a second entry: More coiling fun… she presents pendants made with the same technique – and which are muuuch more faster;-))
Links:
Pine Needle Baskets – part I
Pine Needle Baskets – part II
The original site doesn’t exist any more and is now available through webarchive (I’m not sure whether some of the illustrations have disappeared?!):
Pine Needle Baskets – part I
Pine Needle Baskets – part II
or here:
Pine Needle Baskets – part I
Pine Needle Baskets – part II
How to coil a basket
More coiling fun…
Here at unikatissima:
Clothesline crochet
After the duct tape wallet and the tetrapak coin purse I’d like to present today an ingenious tutorial on how to fold a paper wallet.
On the photo you see one of my test wallets, folded from an official envelope with window and blue patterned lining.
Envelopes are unfortunately too narrow, I can’t put in an unfolded bank note, but it was fun to fold ;-)
I folded others from DIN A4 paper covered in gift wrapping and I really like the size.
One has got a little pocket glued on, another got its sides glued together. One has been covered in self-adhesive book foil, another has been glued after been covered in transparent gift wrapping.
All work fine and seem to be robust (the author of the tutorial writes about this aspect, too).
The only thing I miss is a ‘real’ coin purse with closure.
But the best is: the folding is done in no time ;-))
It is e.g. a wonderful wrapping if you want to give money.
Es wäre z.B. eine tolle Verpackung für ein Geldgeschenk.
Links:
Paper Wallet
More tutorials for paper wallets at instructables
Here at unikatissima:
Duct Tape Wallet
Tetrapak Coin Purse
I wanted to present a tutorial on how to make a paper bowl from paper stripes, there are lots of them.
With such a craft you can do with my tutorial on how to fold paper strips of equal width ;-))
Have fun rolling and glueing!
Links:
Tutorial on how to make a paper bowl from paper stripes – Coiled Paper Basket
Another tutorial on how to make a paper bowl from paper stripes – Magazine Bowl
unikatissima’s tutorial on how to fold paper strips of equal width
From time to time I’m working with plaster and so I thought that I could search for low-priced alternatives for making moulds.
This way I found at instructables.com a tutorial on how to make moulds from jello.
That’s something I really have to try!
Links:
Mold Making with Jello
I’m browsing from time to time Project Gutenberg and found last time a book about spool knitting from 1909. They have mittens, bed shoes, a baby ball and much more, all made from I-cords.
It feels to me like a book from the 70th’s ;-))
Perhaps I do a little rummage to play with my knitting spool once more ;-)
Links:
Spool Knitting, by Mary A. McCormack
I hope. that you will have as much fun here as you had before.
The ‘old’ blog will be kept as it is, you therefore don’t have to update your bookmarks.
But the future will happen here :)
Note: Unfortunately I have still problems with the redirection, though please don’t be afraid if the addresses sometimes look strange ;-(
I will fix it as fast as possible.
As I said before, I mostly knit/crochet with the yarn end that sits in the skein to prevent the skein to roll all over.
Sometimes I must roll my yarn ball myself and I found that the tutorial on how to make my own center pull yarn ball is really a help.
It works great!
Links:
Center Pull Yarn Ball
Here at unikatissima:
Detangling Yarns
I found a wonderful simple technique for beautiful backgrounds: a tutorial on how to stencil with paper doilies.
Isn’t it great?
At my next shopping i must look for paper doilies ;-))
Links:
Paper Doilies Stencils