I always liked this paper weaving ;-)
By the way I have also seen it as decoration of a card, that’s nice, too.
Links:
Woven Bookmark (MOOTE POINTS) => PDF file (~ 40 KB) downloadable in the last paragraph
Category: Self-made Tools
Exlibris
Have you ever thought of designing your own exlibris?
In principle you can use an eraser stamp, but I couldn’t carve my name in this.
Perhaps it’d be better to use blank cutting blocks?! ;-)
Links:
Exlibris (Tutorial-Personalized Bookplate Stamps)
English Wikipedia entry for ‘Exlibris’
German Wikipedia entry for ‘Exlibris’
Here at unikatissima:
Eraser Stamps
Home-made Water Color Paint
I’m not sure whether I should try the home-made water color paint, but I like it somehow :)
Links:
Make Your Own Watercolors: A Great Activity For All Ages!
Paint Brushes Vase
Well, such a I-still-have-lots-of-brushes-from-my-last-painting-experiments-vase doesn’t look bad, does it?
Would it work with thread rests, too? ;-))
Links:
Paint brushes vase
Pennant Stamp Roller
Oh my god, the people have such wonderful ideas: for instance making a rolling pin with pennants to send friendly messages in a nice way.
That’s sort of the mini version of the rolling pin print ;-)
Links:
Pennant Rubber Stamp Roller
Here at unikatissima:
Entries containing the word ‘rolling pin print’
Dorset Buttons
You can always do with a matching button and it doesn’t seem to be very hard to make the buttons yourself ;-)
Links:
How to Make Dorset Buttons
Lace Jewelry Frames
Isn’t this a great idea to put a knitted lace into a frame to hold jewelry?
In the instruction you can also find a frame with a nice crochet lace.
By the way: actually you can use bought lace, too, can’t you? It must only be a little robust.
If you don’t like it, check again the other jewelry holders in the links below ;-)
Links:
Lace Jewelry Frames to Knit or Crochet – Knit and Crochet Pattern
Here at unikatissima:
Necklace Bust
Mini Dress-Form Jewelry Stand
Plaster and Doll Arms Jewelry Holder
Spacing Stamps
I cut myself some eraser stamps already and even an eraser stamp with a repeated pattern, but if I try to print a background pattern from stamp repeats I always have problems.
The entry about spacing stamps helped me further :)
Links:
Spacing Stamps (Lining things up)
Here at unikatissima:
Eraser Stamps
Repeated Pattern Eraser Stamp
Crocheted Stitch Markers
I wanted to present these little, ingenious crocheted stitch markers.
I crocheted mine in less than five minutes!
She offers instructions for small, medium and large ones at ravelry.
Generally speaking it’s ‘only’ a chain ring base crocheted with single crochets – very simple as all ingenious ideas are :)
I did it a little differently:
– I wrapped a needle 3x too big a couple of times with the crochet thread and
– crocheted single crochets around this tread ring.
That’s because I don’t like rings of chains ;-)
Her stitch markers are more beautiful, but mine are sufficient for me ;-)
And I don’t have to fall back to my usual stitch markers ;-)
Links:
ravelry instructions (Stitch Markers)
Photos of her stitch markers at flickr: photo 1 (IMG_6415[1]), photo 2 (IMG_6411[1]) and photo 3 (IMG_6415[1])
Here at unikatissima:
Little Improvised Knitting Helpers
Woven Circles Potholder
What a potholder!
It looks as if it wasn’t very hard to make it, but it looks definitely different from others ;-))
I can imagine it as a piece of jewelry or pin as well when crocheted with very fine thread.
Links:
Woven Circles Potholder (how-to: woven circles trivet)