…compilation of tutorials
Again a wonderful idea: stamp little polymer clay tiles, cure, dye and afterwards sand away dye excesses.
In principle it’s the same as my carved candle holder, only there I pressed polymer clay into the crease and cured it a second time.
I think that dye is more ‘sand-friendly’ ;-))
Links:
Fill-Ins with Polymer Clay and Paint
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Carving Polymer Clay
While surfing the internet I found this necklace and found it amazing.
I thought that it should be easy to made: you make the mdedaillons with flat round Peyote (see links below) just as for the bottom of the beaded bottle, but then you work the pattern back again.
This way you get a slightly thicker medaillon in place of a flat disk.
Unfortunately I’m not so good concerning colours and so I’m not really satisfied with my own medaillon (see photo).
Perhaps I should have printed and coloured in one of the graphs (see links below) to use this as template?!
One day I really will do this ;-)
Links:
Tutorials for flat round Peyote and graphs:
Flat Round Peyote Stitch Step by Step Tutorial (English) – tutorial
Flat Round Peyote Stitch – Beading Graph Paper (English) – graph
Hexagonal Flat Peyote Worked In Rounds (English) – tutorial and graph
Rundes Peyote mit variabler Perlenanzahl (German) – tutorial, click there on ‘Rund-Peyote’
Google search result for ‘flat round peyote’
Google image search result for ‘flat round peyote’
Here at unikatissima:
Beaded Bottle
Peyote Variations
Wrap a Rock
I find those rectangular folded boxes absolutely great!
Unfortunately I discovered them too late, but if you haven’t begun yet (oops! ;-)), they are great for an Advent calendar, too ;-)
But take your time, I once made an Advent calendar from similar, but square boxes (instructions from a book) and it took foreeever to finish it.
I use it nearly every year though and it is still beautiful ;-)
And apart from that you can still use them for the Christmas gifts, I think that it would look wonderful, too :)
Links:
Modular Rectangular Box , Version A
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Entries with the tag ‘Advent calendar’
Entries with the tag ‘box’
Ok, ok, this ‘tealight holder’ isn’t meant as Advent wreath, where you light a(nother) candle every Advent Sunday but it would fit very well, wouldn’t it?
Perhaps one should lay some evergreen boughs aside… ;-))
I tried it with one of our multiple sockets and it simply didn’t look good because I couldn’t insert the tealight deep enough into the sockets because of the noses inside, so I will go back to a traditional Advent wreath this year again ;-)
Links:
Modern Advent Wreath (Light up)
If you want to know more about Advent wreaths in Germany and perhaps even want to make one yourself, check out Christmas Craft Projects – Advent Wreath and How to Make Natural Green Wreaths on the same site.
Actually I prefer photo tutorials to video tutorials because I can look at photos as long and close as I want, but I find the instruction for a quick bag out of a t-shirt so great that I wanted to present it anyhow.
The way she’s making it it really takes only five minutes to make from the t-shirt a nice bag where the flap still can be embellished, e.g. with embroideries, but also with Freeform pieces crocheted extra for the flap or bead embroidered Paisleys or crochet squares or (paper) flowers or whatever you can think about ;-))
(By the way, I ‘nicked’ the photo from the entry T-Shirt Yarn ;-))
Links:
Quick-Dirty-Cheap: Upcycled T-Shirt Mini Messenger – (Video)
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Entries with the tag ’embroidery’
Entries with the tag ‘crochet’
Entries with the tag ‘flowers’
Freeform Needlework
Bead embroidered Paisleys
T-Shirt Yarn
crochet medaillon
While searching my instructions I found Positive – Negative Pumpkin! back and thought: ‘Yes, that’s exactly right for a snowman’.
It’s cute, isn’t ist??
You need a coloured card for the background, white paper, pencil and scissors (or X-acto knife).
I always need an eraser, too ;-))
First I trimmed the paper to the right size.
I left a small border to the edge of the actual card because I like it better this way.
Then I sketched my snowman.
I made a PDF file (~ 55 KB) from my snowman template, so you can make your own snowman card :))
Here I just layed the elements out – they still have to be glued on.
Finally I pricked two holes in the card left and right of the neck and pulled two threads of wool through, that I knotted under the snowman’s ‘chin’.
I still like him everytime I see him ;-))
Links:
Template for snowman PDF file (~ 55 KB)
Positive – Negative Pumpkin! – scroll down to ‘Kid’s Korner’
I like the reversible cabled scarf very much – just as the Lamar Scarf it made me think about.
I still haven’t finished the latter therefore I won’t begin the reversible cabled scarf.
Sigh.
;-))
Links:
Reversible Cabled Brioche Stitch Scarf
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Lamar Scarf
I presented some instructions already where plastic bottles are ‘processed’.
I find this here remarkable anyhow because she shows how to make a wire from a plastic bottle!
Links:
How to Make a Wire from a Plastic Bottle
via: A new twist on recycling a plastic soda bottle into a stem or necklace
via: art for housewives
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Entries containing the word ‘plastic bottle’
Doesn’t the basket look great? Actually the entry is about blocking after finishing, but tapestry crochet isn’t so hard and so I definitely wanted to present the basket :))
Links:
Tapestry Crochet Basket (Handy Blocking)
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Tapestry Crochet
These ‘fabric flowers’ are actually pouffes but I think that you can make wonderful Advent decoration this way, don’t you?
Links:
Geometric Fabric Flowers => Wait until petals scroll past and click it