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Quick Bag from T-Shirt

unikatissima T-Shirt Yarn

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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

Wire from Plastic Bottles

wikiHow Wire from Plastic Bottles

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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’

Embroidered Rainbow Elephants Spiral

craftster Embroidered Rainbow Elephants Spiral

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Doesn’t the Elephants spiral look cute?
However considering my physique I’d better embroider other animals, or flowers or even Paisleys ;-)


Links:
Embroidered Rainbow Elephants Spiral (*new black shirt* Rainbow elephants spiralling into space)

Google image search result for ‘flower embroidery pattern’
Google image search result for ‘paisley embroidery pattern’

Socks Necklace

flickr tabychan Socks Necklace

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Na, doesn’t this sock necklace look great?! ;-)

And about the advent calendar: you can insert here easily little paper strips into the socks just as for the simple spool advent calendar and wham!, ready is your advent calendar ;-))

So, that’ve been the advent calendar ideas for this year, now you may begin…
;-))


Links:
socks necklace
More photos of recycled socks of tabychan

via: tabychan recycled work
via: Fiber Jewelery – Summer Fashion
via: art for housewives

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Simple Spool Advent Calendar
Entries with the tag ‘advent calendar’

Paper Napkin Pillow

favecrafts Paper Napkin Pillow

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I’m always impressed by all the great ideas out there: This time it’s about sewing yourself a pillow from paper napkins matching your home furnishings!
Seen like this it would be great for a picnic or similar, too: you can take pillows with you that match the other napkins ;-)
She said that the pillows are amazingly strong, somewhen I really have to try this ;-))


Links:
Thrifty Paper Napkin Pillow

Perfect Weight

craftster Perfect Scale

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I told already that want to lose weight before I will crochet the bolero but I don’t find it easy.
How much better must it be if the scales tell me that my weight is ‘perfect’?
;-)

She made the scales with glass mosaic tiles but I think that it should be possible with selfmade mosaic tiles from polymer clay or glass paints or from plaster, resp. Or of course with a paper collage, best as paper crazy quilt. Or with eggshells.
;-))


Links:
Scales (Perfect Scale: Mosaic)
More scales (Perfect Scale Commision)

Here at unikatissima:
Crocheted Bolero
Mosaic from Plaster
Mosaic Table Light
Paper Crazy Quilt
Eggshell Mosaics

Paper Roll Jewelry

CraftyPod Paper Roll Jewelry

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Such a great idea again: simply begin just as for the coiled paper basket but stop quite soon and make from the rolls little pieces of jewelry.

I really have to try it with the folded paper strips of equal width!


Links:
Paper Roll Jewelry (Kind of a half-baked idea, but still…)

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Coiled Paper Basket
Folded Paper Strips of Equal Width

Little Boxes for Precious Presents

unikatissima Little Boxes for Precious Presents

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I presented some boxes already, the one of today is folded from old greeting cards.
On the photo you can see it folded from a calendar or magazin sheet as a gift wrapping for my hyperbolic pin.
I find both (gift and box) still great! :)


Links:
Little Boxes for Precious Presents

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Entries with the tag ‘box’
Hyperbolic Pin (TED Talk: Nature, Crochet and Geometry)