…compilation of tutorials
I found some ‘dolls’ that I find really beautiful: it must be great fun to make them: Crazy Quilt, embroidery, sewing, Shisha stitches, all included.
And looots of fantasie ;-)
Links:
Inner Child Dolls
Here at unikatissima:
Paper Crazy Quilt
Crazy Quilt Photo Frame
Shisha Stitch
Entries with the tag ’embroidery’
Entries with the tag ‘sewing’
Up until now I saw eggshell mosaics mostly at ‘kids crafts’, but now I found sites with wonderful (jewelry) pieces.
I already gathered my material, the actual execution is on my list ;-)
Links:
Short description (What are they? Why eggshells? How are they made?)
Mini Movie
Jewelry
Eggshell Mosaic Boxes, z.B.
Eggshell Mosaic Boxes
Eggshell Mosaic Boxes
(you must absolutely click them and look at the larger photos!)
Google search result for ‘Eggshell Mosaics’
Google image search result for ‘Eggshell Mosaics’
I really love freeform and freeform crochet and therefore I found of course the instruction on how to crochet a freeform necklace with wire and beads instruction on how to crochet a freeform necklace with wire and beadsinteresting.
I haven’t tried it yet because I (still) have no jewelry wire and she wrote that her wire has since gone all rusty – it doesn’t have to come to this.
I will make the necklace one day!
Links:
How to make a beaded freeform wire crochet necklace
The original site doesn’t exist any more and is now available through webarchive:
How to make a beaded freeform wire crochet necklace
Thanks, Louise, for telling me! :)
Here at unikatissima:
Entries with the tag ‘freeform’
Entries containing ‘freeform’ and ‘crochet’
Once I played around with the Elissahearts and found them wonderful.
I didn’t work with the heart mould but just put both halves together. That’s not good because they can more easily break apart.
Just try it youself ;-)
Links:
Elissahearts
Once I found an instruction on how to make a scarf from felted old sweaters but the website doesn’t exist anymore.
The photo is from the website, click to enlarge.
That’s how they did it:
In fact I would like to have a cardigan-kind garment made with this technique, no scarf.
Therefore I went to several second hand stores to look for wool sweaters but found mostly sweaters from artificial material which don’t felt.
But I stay tuned ;-)
Links:
The original website that doesn’t exist anymore
Here at unikatissima: Entries with the tag ‘felting’
I find this little ring absolutely cute.
Especially the way she made the actual ring from beads and wire was interesting.
Something learned again ;-)
Links:
flower button ring! urban outfitters knock off..kinda!*TUTORIAL*
Here at unikatissima:
Entries with the tag ‘ring’
Entries with the tag ‘button’
This corsage is really cute, isn’t?
And apparently very easy to make!
I can’t because I don’t have no fabric at home I could use for it (somehow I don’t want to cut holes into my bedclothes even if it looks nice ;-)).
But as soon as I get some fabric into my little hands I surely will make one.
Links:
Corsage
Once I found an instruction on making buttons by weave wrapping wooden beads and tried it immediatley with different weave patterns: It is great!
I really like the weave wrapping of the buttons and find that the results are too beautiful to be used as buttons, I like them more as beads ;-)
Links:
Weave Wrapped Bead Buttons – scroll down to ‘To construct this type of button,…’
Here at unikatissima: Entries with the tag ‘button’
I found the fringed buttons very nice. But they are done with ready-made fringes which I don’t have at home.
Therefore I made a kind of pom-pom from wool rests and put my button inside there and although I find the button awful kitschy I quite like the combination ;-))
Of course you can as well tuck a Crazy Daisy under the button ;-))
Links:
Fringe-y Goodness
Here at unikatissima:
Crazy Daisy Ring
Crazy Daisies
Crazy Daisies II
For a certain time I worked tubular nets, e.g. to make necklaces like the ones on the photo.
I find them beautiful and that a simply eye catcher like the beaded freeform bead is enough. Additionally they are wonderful soft because the tubular net is so elastic.
You can use tubular netting as well to bead glass tubes like at the bead and wire wall vase or to bead little bottles.
Links:
TubularNet
Netz-Ketten (German) (short description, scroll down to ‘Netz-Ketten’)
Net technique (German) (not tubular)
Here at unikatissima:
Bead and Wire Wall Vase
Beaded Bottle