…compilation of tutorials
You can get adhesive films to frosten windows but I find the instruction on how to frost windows with beer and Epsom salt much more interesting.
This way you can use up the rests from the last fasting and the last feasting ;-)
I find so great that you can make a design of your own and that you can remove everything by washing.
That’s handy, isn’t it?
Links:
Frosting Windows
Recently I presented the beaded hyperbolic planes, now I found a TED Talk to this that inspired me to eventually crochet a hyperbolic plane.
I wanted to crochet this in fact for a long time, ever since I got this beautiful pin I still adore.
Thank you again!
Links:
TED Talk: Margaret Wertheim: The beautiful math that links coral, crochet and hyperbolic geometry
At The Institute For Figuring:
Crocheted Hyperbolic Models and Coral Reef Taxonomy Gallery at The Institute For Figuring
– a wonderful gallery
Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef
– ditto ;-)
Beaded Hyperbolics
– still ditto ;-)
Crochet instruction for a hyperbolic plane (Interweave Knits article Taking Crochet to a Higher Plane)
At unikatissima: Beaded Hyperbolic Planes
Today again more an inspiration than an instruction, nonetheless fascinating: beaded hyperbolic planes.
And while you’re at The Institute For Figuring you must absolutely take a look at the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef!
Wow!
Links:
At The Institute For Figuring:
Beaded Hyperbolics – a wonderful gallery
Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef – ditto ;-)
Now that spring has come comes the time, too when to embellish the garden. Why not making garden hose baskets garden hose baskets then?
I don’t have a garden and they are too large for a balcony which can only contain two plain chairs or a canvas chair ;-)
Anyhow, I find them interesting.
Links:
Jewelry for the Garden
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I’m collecting nearly everything (and that’s how it looks here, too ;-)) and from now on I will collect used tea bags, too, to make beautiful envelopes from.
I’m really curious about it. ;-))
On the photo you see my Rooibosh tea bags. I find that the Rooibosh tea gives the most beautiful colour, a very warm red-brown :)
By the way it must look great, too, if the tea bags are sewn together and/or if they are embellished after assembly, e.g. by embroidering, painting or stamping them.
Links:
Recycling Tea Bags into Art Projects: How to Create Tea Bag Envelopes
“Tea Ceremony” – sewn tea bags
(via Wewer Keohane)
Sas Colby Teabag Art Discourse – stamped tea bags
T-Bag – Tea Bag Designs – painted tea bags
Here at unikatissima: Paper Crazy Quilt – embroidered paper
Soon will be Easter and I found the tutorial on how to make rustic egg cups (very rustic as I find) suitable ;-)
Links:
Rustic Egg Cups (coquetiers déco) (French)
Ok, the video ‘You’ve got a friend 2009’ is no tutorial, but so beautiful that I really wanted to present it.
And who knows, perhaps it is an inspiration to somebody?
I’ve only seen the video ‘You’ve got a friend 2009’ until now, the others will follow.
I want to relish them.
Links:
Painting with sand at SandFantasy, i.e. the video ‘You’ve got a friend 2009’
I found an instruction for a nice paper flower and thought that this should work with self-coloured paper, too.
It did ;-)
First I painted on a sheet of toilet paper with some markers.
I dropped water on my ‘painting’, but it was a little too much water and everything swam.
In order not to get everything dirty I have put it luckily on an old little plastic bag.
Therefore I put another sheet of toilet paper onto the first, the water and the dye dispersed on both.
I blow-dried everything to dry it faster ;-)
I cut my papers by guess and by gosh, that is to say without a pre-sketched spiral and my scissors were quite blunt.
That may be the reason why my little ‘roses’ look so beautiful ;-)
Links:
Paper Flower – the tutorial works backwards, you must always click the previous picture to get the next step
This time it’s no ‘real’ instruction but an inspiration: Embellished Grapefruits Embellished Grapefruits. (Click there for the actual pieces on the thumbnails and see e.g. Two Pods Two Pods.)
Because I’m always impatient I preferred to use a piece from an orange – grapefruits are so big ;-)
While working I had a lot of fun.
I like the embroidery of orange peels nearly as much as embroidery on paper. The most uncommon thing I had to do was to give my needle a wash ;-))
After the embroidery I put the orange peel between several layers of tissue paper in an old telephon book and let it dry ‘flat’.
Actually I had hoped that I can coat it with medium gel afterwards and wear as a pendant, but I don’t really like the ‘flat version’ of my orange peel.
I find worst that the threads now stand up now like croquet wickets, I really don’t like this.
At the next opportunity I will see if I can make it better.
If it works I will perhaps embroider beads on, that should be interesting, perhaps Paisleys or simply Freeform.
Links:
Grapefruit – click there for the actual pieces on the thumbnails and see e.g. Two Pods
The original site doesn’t exist any more and is now available through webarchive:
Grapefruit – click there for the actual pieces on the thumbnails and see e.g. Two Pods
Embroidery stitch descriptions (English)
Embroidery stitch descriptions (German)
Here at unikatissima:
Paper Crazy Quilt
Freeform Bead Embroidery
Bead embroidered Paisleys
I’ve seen several paper maché objects, but jars looking like stumps are still something special to me.
Something especially cute ;-))
I’m not totally sure that I should make them myself ;-), but I liked them so much that I wanted to present them here.
Furthermore I didn’t know this paper maché preparation, I really like to give a try some day.
Links:
Papier-mâché Faux Bois
via One Pretty Thing
