I find those beads soo beautiful and can easily imagine them in other colour combinations!
One day…
Sigh.
;-)
Month: October 2009
Knitted Video
When I saw the knitted video for the first time, I was sitting there with my jaw dropped.
That didn’t look very beautiful (me, not the video! ;-)).
Anyhow: I’m toootally amazed about.
And I won’t never, ever try to knit such a thing by myself ;-))
(I know, I know, it is machine knitted.
Even so ;-))
Links:
Knitted Video (With a name like “Knitting Machine”…)
(English, Songtext French)
via: ravelry group ‘needlework on the net’
Create a Flower Card
Now that the leaves get coloured comes perhaps the right time to make cute cards with them.
Isn’t it?
;-))
Links:
Create a Fancy Flower Card
Line a Bottom Bag
I really like knitted and crocheted bags but I never knew how to line them.
Now I found a tutorial on how to line a bag as on the photo.
Let’s see what I’m gonna make of it ;-))
Links:
Line a fat bottom bag
Washer Pendant
Recently we wrapped recycled gift tags, now washers.
And why not, most of us have enough stash yarn at any rate it looks cute ;-)
Links:
How to Make a Washer & Yarn Pendant
Here at unikatissima:
Recycled Gift Tags
Salt & Pepper
Well, isn’t it a great idea making salt and pepper shakers from film containers?
It would be quite the right thing if you want to have salt and pepper at a picnic, isn’t it?
Although it gets now much to cold here for such events ;-))
Links:
Salt & pepper
Make Your Own Font
Sometimes it would be great, if you could enter your own hand writing by keyboard, e.g. when creating greeting cards.
You have the chance now: you print a form, enter the appropriate letters, scan the sheet and upload it at fontcapture.
Then you should get back your handwriting as font.
I didn’t let make it yet because my handwriting is so botched at the moment that I don’t want to get it ;-))
As a matter of principle you should be able to ‘put a lot on the keyboard’, even little sketches.
I really have to try it on occasion!
Recycled Gift Tags
The gift tags on the photo aren’t ready yet: I simply can’t decide with which yarn I should wrap them.
But I find the idea really great: flatten the cardboard tube, cut it in strips and wrap the pieces with yarn.
I think that it could look beautiful, too, when wrapped in a piece of beautiful polymer clay and worn as necklace, earring or pin.
Hm.
When reading the instructions for the gift tags I had to think somehow at the surprise ball gifts ;-)
But she had other ideas, too, about what to make with these paper shapes, namely a cute tealight and an interesting lamp decoration.
I presented before entries about recycled cardboard tubes here in this blog, namely the beaded amulet bag, the plaster photo holder and the knitting loom from a plastic bottle.
But there the cardboard tube was ‘only’ a tool.
Links:
recycling project no. 19 – yarn gift tag
recycle project no. 12 – tealight decoration
recycle project no. 16 – hurricane cover
Here at unikatissima:
Surprise Ball Gifts
Beaded Amulet Bag
Plaster Photo Holder
Knitting Loom from Plastic Bottle
Lacy Floral Crochet Square
Recently I presented the crocheted bolero, now a tablecloth (or afghan) made of crocheted squares. Even if the magazin where the instruction comes from seems to be a little oldfashioned I really like the pattern.
Sigh.
;-))
Links:
Lacy Floral Crochet Square – photo
Lacy Floral Crochet Square – instruction
Overview
Here at unikatissima:
Crocheted Bolero
Clothes From Crocheted Medaillons
Square ‘n’ Fair – Lacy Crochet Square Margarethe
Crochet Joining
Beverage Carton Crochet
‘Noodling’ Polymer Clay
When working with polymer clay there is a technique called ‘Filigree’ where you press long ‘noodles’ from polymer clay to be laid in (e.g.) spirals.
That’s what I did on my Tray Sommerfreude (see photo) and the Coasters Sommerfreude: I had a lot of fun making these!
Usually the strands of polymer clay are made with a so-called clay gun but I found an instruction which uses successfully a garlic press (the garlic press may not be used for food afterwards!).
If you feel like working with filigree then take a look at the links where I listed some tutorials.
And if you don’t feel like working with filigree then take a look at the Google image search results, I’m sure that you will change your mind ;-))
Links:
Making Clay Strands With a Garlic Press
Tutorials about Filigree:
Beaded Filigree – that is the page succeeding ‘Noodling’ polymer clay with a garlic press
Blended Filigree Egg
Rainbow Filigree Lesson
Fold Over Beads – Polymer Clay Filigree Bead Project – here she doesn’t cover items in filigree but makes crescent-shaped beads from the polymer clay spirals
By the way all tutorials present polymer clay strands in gradient colours, the first tutorial also talks about single-colured strands.
Google image search result ‘polymer clay filigree’
Google search result ‘polymer clay filigree’
Google image search result ‘clay gun’
Here at unikatissima:
Tray Sommerfreude
Coasters Sommerfreude