…compilation of tutorials
I presented all sorts of boxes already, but when you want to wrap something little and flat like a cookie or a necklace pendant, most of them aren’t suitable because of their shape.
Quite different the pizza box gift box: it is folded like a pizza box and what could be flatter? ;-)
I really like the idea and the template and will use it for sure when needed.
I’ve never heard about before: surprise ball gifts, but I find the idea sooo great: the presentee can use everything incl. the ‘wrapping’.
I wonder who will get my first surprise ball gift ;-)
Links:
Surprise Ball Gifts
I find the ‘Scrapheap Background’ very interesting and put it on my just-do-it-once-list.
It made me think a little about the plaster relief …
Links:
The Friday Tut >>> *Scrapheap Challenge*
Here at unikatissima: Plaster Relief
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
I just wanted to show once more how beautiful embroidery on paper and cardboard can be ;-)
Here I cut a beautiful blue patterned square from a magazine and glued on white cardboard.
Then I drew very faint curved lines with a pencil, pricked holes along the lines and stitched them with a chain stitch.
Looks fine, doesn’t it?
I find though that the chain stitch looks much better on straight lines or wide curves than on sharp turns (it ‘inclines’ somewhat), that’s something one could pay attention to when drawing the lines.
Links:
Instruction for chain stitch
Here at unikatissima: Embroidered Matisse Cushion
Recently something took me and I thought that you can use those two-coloured charts which are usually associated with filet crochet or cross stitch for a loooot of other techniques, too.
I had this idea already before, in my entries about intarsia knitting, the cross stitch heart, the beaded square stitch heart and the polymer clay letter cane.
On the photo you see some letters worked in different techniques (I’m working on letter charts at the moment ;-)):
'u' - Knit-Purl Knitting, each X is a purl stitch
'n' - Fair Isle Knitting, each X is a white stitch
'i' - Sequins Embroidery, each X is a sequin
'k' - Tapestry Crochet, each X is a white stitch
'a' - Filet Crochet, each X is a filled filet crochet square
't' - Cross Stitch Embroidery on paper, each X is a black cross stitch
'i' - Loom Beading, each X is a black bead
's' - Stamping with square stamps, each X is a black square stamp
's' - Illusion Knitting, each X is a black stitch over two rows
'i' - Crochet Yoyo’s, each X is a white crochet circle from dc’s
'm' - Inverted Filet Crochet, each X is a empty filet crochet square
'a' - Macramée/Friendship Bracelet, each X is a white knot
But then I came up with more techniques and if you still have more ideas I’d be glad if you wrote a comment about.
I added for every technique what would be a square of the chart.
Please remember: Not all ‘units’ are square so that the result can look quite different from the chart!
Knitting
Crochet
Beading
Embroidery
Knotting
Weaving
Sewing
Other
By the way I found an blog entry of an embroiderer who thought about the same subject and has more ideas.
Links:
Double Knitting
Picture for sequin embroidery (scroll down to about the middle)
Description of French Knot
Heather’s Friendship Bracelets – Alphabet Patterns
Geometric stitching
Google image search result for ‘yoyo blanket’
Google image search result for ‘ministeck’
Here at unikatissima:
Celtic Cross Stitch Generator
Heart Template (at Beaded Square Stitch Heart)
Patchwork Knitting
Bead Knitting
Illusion knit
Tapestry Crochet
Beautiful Filet Crochet Patterns
Loom Woven Bead Bracelet
Beaded Square Stitch Heart
Bead Knitting
Freeform Bead Embroidery
Bead embroidered Paisleys
Friendship Bracelet
Crazy Daisies
Crazy Daisies II
Mosaic Table Light (Glass Paint)
Polymer Clay Letter Cane
Mosaic from Plaster
Eraser Stamps
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’
Yesterday we cut a plastic bottle to make a knitting loom, today we can make a box from the cut off bottom of the bottle.
It’s not a real instruction, but when you look closely at the photos you can see that the plastic bottoms are perforated at the edge and that a zipper is sewn into the holes.
Fantastic!
Addendum: There are instructions now, you can find the English ones here (thanks, Nina).
Links:
Plastic Bottle Box (recycled box/Recycling Box)
English instructions
German instructions
I’ve seen the photo and found it time-consuming to find the source:
I found the link to the plastic bottle box:
via Need More Fiber,
via Dollar Store Crafts (they have more great ideas!),
via greenUPGRADER,
via Superuse.org
I thought that I’d never reach an end ;-))
By the way I suggest to take a look a the flickr group TRASHION NATION, they also have great ideas!
Recently a friend had the idea to make some Origami with fabric but the fabric didn’t fold properly.
Some research showed that there are more people who do this and that they simply stiffen the fabric with starch or fabric stiffener.
And then (it seems!) that you can simply start folding… :)
By the way there seem even to be two groups: those who incorporate their Origami fabric in their quilts and those who fold other things like wallets.
Unfortunately I don’t have much fabric (because of the design) that I could use for Origami folding and I won’t surely begin to build up a fabric stash here, but somehow…
;-)
Links:
At instructables: Fabric Origami Quilt Block
At Origami Resource Center: Fabric folding – scroll down to about the center until ‘Fabric Origami Quilts’ and ‘Fabric Origami’
Fabric Origami – under ‘Technique’ you can find more ideas about what to do with ‘solid fabric’: stamping, maschine embroidery, lamination etc.
Recently I re-discoverd the website of Lisa Vollrath whose tutorials I always found really great.
When I saw her ‘A Simple Tabbed Pop-Up’ I wanted to try it immediately.
But then it started: No, I don’t want to make an Eiffelturm, but something else. But what? Somebody wrote something about sail boats in the comments.
Ok, good idea.
Ehm, the toner of my printer won’t suffice to print something.
Hmm, Lisa said that actually it doesn’t matter how large the tabs are…
Thus I took an A4 paper horizontally and my Xacto knife and startet to cut a sail boat and the sea.
I find my card for a try on the spur of the moment quite nice, but I haven’t decided yet what to put on the front side ;-)
Links:
At Go Make Something: A Simple Tabbed Pop-Up
