Category: Yarn

Kumihimo Pattern Planner

Lytha Studios Kumihimo Pattern Planner

Links of entry

Recently I looked again for pattern generators, after all I made some myself (see links below ;-)) and I want to know what great ideas other people have ;-)

One of these great ideas ist the Kumihimo pattern planner.
You can get with it the initial position of the threads for a simple 8-braid for a given pattern.
They didn’t explain what a ‘simple 8-braid’ is but I think that it is the same as in my Kumihimo entry, I didn’t have the time to check this, yet.


Links:
Lytha Studios KumiPlanner – Kumihimo Pattern Design Application – Beta

Here at unikatissima:
Kumihimo – here you can find also a template for a brainding disk (Marudai) that you can make yourself from cardboard

Entries with the tag ‘Kumihimo’

Maze Pattern Generator
Pattern Generator (Cellular Automaton)
Random Squares Pattern Generator
With this comes the entry ‘What Can You Do With Filet Crochet/Cross Stitch Embroidery Charts?’
crochet medaillon

Fabric Inchie Collage

dotslifeandart Fabric Inchie Collage

Links of entry

I told before how you can make matching, but not equal paper inchies*.

Here she shows how to make wondeful fabric inchies.
It must be a lot of fun.

* What is an inchie? An Inchie is a 1″ square of art. They are made from paper or fabric and then embellished in innumerable ways (see links below).


Links:
1″ fabric collage tutorial…

Google image search result for ‘inchies’
Flickr image search result for ‘inchies’

Here at unikatissima:
Serendipity Collage

Simple Napkin Holders

Ordinary Miracles of Life Simple Napkin Holders

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Do you still have some cardboard tubes?
What about some simple yet really beautiful napkin holders?

The flower that looks like a rose (Satin Flower) is made in the same technique than the textile roses here, by the way.

Apart from that you can of course use different yarns instead of cord, perhaps even funky yarns?!
Possibly it was fun to use coloured yarns and little plastic toys or Lego pieces as decoration.
And it would look beautiful to make the napkin holders more in the way of the string decorated ornaments, you need less cord then ;-)
But you must paint more ;-))

And then you can always come back to my knitted/crocheted napkin rings ;-), they can be made on a cardboard tube, too, of course.


Links:
Simple and Very cool Napkin Holders
via: yine tuvalet kağıdı rulosu

Here at unikatissima:
Textile Roses
String Decorated Ornaments
Knitted/Crocheted Bangles (and Napkin Rings)
Entries containing the word ‘cardboard tube’

Crocheted Plastic Wind Chime

Kristinas Welt Crocheted Plastic Wind Chime

Links of entry

I wrote a couple of entries already that should help to prettify a garden (although I don’t have any ;-)) (see links below).
And I have several entries for making stuff from plastic bags, mostly bags.
So I like the idea of taking yarn from plastic bags and making plastic bag garden decorations quasi twice as much ;-))

 


Links:
Crocheted Plastic Wind Chime (Die ersten Windspiele) (German)
The automatic translation isn’t very convincing but I think that it doesn’t matter: simply crochet items from plastic yarn, connect them and hang them in the garden as wind chimes.

Here at unikatissima:
Garden Decorations
Tomato Tube Leaves
Jewelry for the Garden
Faux Rocks
Can Plant Markers
Entries containing the word ‘plastic bag’
Entries with the tag ‘bag/purse/tote’

Quick Cords

Faserfimmel Quick Cords

Links of entry

I presented several techniques already to make cords but I’d never thought about this simple and yet so cute idea: place yarns side by side and sew together with a zig zag stitch.
Brilliant!
Unfortunately I can’t do this because my sewing machine doesn’t have a zig zag stitch.
I think I will go on with braiding, weaving, knitting and crochet ;-))


Links:
Quick Cords (Schnelle Schnüre) (German)
Google translation to English

Here at unikatissima:
Fingerloop Braiding
Kumihimo
Clothesline Knitting or Filled I-cord
Clothesline Crochet
Entries with the tag ‘cord’