…compilation of tutorials
I already presented felted soap and poured soap and was therefore curious when sseing the tutorial on how to make tattooed soap.
I find the idea cute and think it would be a nice small present.
Links:
Tattooed Soaps
Here at unikatissima:
Felting Soap
Goldfish in a Bag (poured soap)
Ok, the title isn’t the best ever made, but the bead does look beautiful, doesn’t it? ;-)
I have it on my have-a-go-at-it-list for a long time already but it keeps being pushed down by other projects.
Now I place it back to the top ;-)
Links:
At Polymer Clay Central: Making Hollow Tube Beads
When you have finished your bracelet or your necklace you sometimes ask yourself: Where do I get now a beautiful closure?
I found an instruction for a self-made hook and eye clasp that I didn’t try yet.
But I think that you can’t make things very wrong, can’t you?
Links:
At Polymer Clay Central: Hook and Eye Clasp
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.
‘Brangles’ is a made-up word that is put together of ‘Bangle’ and ‘Bracelet’.
That sounds quite dry but fact is, that I find her jewelry her jewelry fantastic and I think it’s great that she published in internet an instruction instruction on how to make such pieces.
Links:
Bangle Bracelet
The original site doesn’t exist any more and is now available through webarchive:
Bangle Bracelet
Connie Fox’s Jewelry
Page moved to: Connie Fox’s Jewelry
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
When recently looking at Kokopelli’s blog she presented a necklace in viking knit.
Looks great!
I made some research and found a great photo tutorial.
But I won’t to try it out (for the time being? ;-)) because I don’t want to buy more stuff.
At least I think so…
;-))
Links:
Photo tutorial Viking Knit
Recently I found the recipe for the 5 minute chocolate cake and it really worked! ;-))
Ok, ok, the something on the photo may not look soo mouth-watering but it was very tasty.
Anyway I adjusted the recipe slightly: instead of 4 tablespoons of sugar I used 2 tablespoons and because I didn’t have vanilla extract I added a sachet of vanilla sugar. This was nearly too sugary for us, it could be less.
What is more I only had olive oil at home and I thought that this wouldn’t taste so good, therefore I only took 1 tablespoon.
That is possibly the reason why it became a little too solid. Next time I’d melt and use some margarine. And then I had the cake in the microwave for 3:30 min because we ‘only’ have 800 W.
That’s how it looked when it was still in the bowl, but I tipped it out for eating.
I wanted to know how it looks from the other side ;-)
I already bought a jar of cherries, next time I want to add some.
Links:
5 Minute Chocolate Mug Cake
When surfing at craftster I found a most beautiful cushion embroidered with a Matisse painting.
Be assured that I won’t make it, because my patience doesn’t suffice at all for this kind of work, but I really wanted to present it.
Links:
At craftster: Matisse Pillow
Instruction for chain stitch (English)
Instruction for chain stitch (German)
I’ve often seen bowls made from old vinyl records, but I find the bracelets from vinyl records nevertheless special.
Even so I won’t make none because I won’t be able to ‘batter’ the vinyl records like that ;-)
Links:
At craftster: Vinyl Record Bracelets