…compilation of tutorials
Recently I presented an ornament from mini wool skeins, I like these here, too: made from cardboard and decorated with beautiful paper or fabric.
What do you think? :))
Links:
tree ornaments from scraps with tutorial! (complete w/ photos)
via: Ornament
Recently I needed a Birthday card. I wanted to make something with a bunch of flowers and then remembered the Seven Flower Pop Up Card.
It was easily made, it just took a little bit time.
I used some pages from a bedclothes catalogue where the colours matched as paper ;-)
And I suggest to read the instructions thoroughly: First I glued the whole petals together and then the bunch of flowers didn’t open.
Luckily I could take everything apart and then I glued only the tips of the petals together.
With pop up cards I always find it difficult to decide what to make on the front of the card.
But here I didn’t have any problem: I simply made two more flowers that I didn’t cut but glued on the card. Some dashed lines with a felt tip pen – and the card was done.
As well the sender as the receiver are very satisfied with the results ;-))
Links:
Seven Flower Pop Up Card
Ok, ok, today is Saint Nicholas, but here the show is already over, the boot wasn’t only filled but emptied already and life goes on.
And to let it go on neatly (at least concerning sewing) the bobbin holders from spiral binders can help ;-))
So in case that you still have to sew something for Christmas everything should go more easily now :)
Links:
Bobbin Holder (Bevy of Bobbins- corral your unruly bobbin thread! Pics, too!)
Saint Nicholas – Celebration in Central Europe
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Entries with the tag ‘sewing’
I like this lamp from a strainer and an old book very much, too.
It must give a beautiful light and if you – as said in the instruction – use a bulb that doesn’t get too hot there really shouldn’t be any problems.
And if you don’t like the lamp so much: I compiled a lot of other instructions for lamps made from a lot of things ;-))
Links:
strainer lamp
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Entries with the tag ‘light’
Such a chocolate covered spoon would be great for St. Nicholas boots (the day after tomorrow!), wouldn’t it? ;-)
And if not you can make them with chocolade rests from Christmas, later (yes, there are families where chocolade rests remain ;-)).
Links:
Chocolate Covered Spoons)
I liked the knitted rose best of all knitted flowers, that’s why I tried to knit it.
I thought that it must look cute with my white scarf.
And because it doesn’t need much thread it is great for stash use-up ;-)
That is my flower and I’m absolutely sure that I knitted it following the instructions.
Although I like it, I think that it looks more like a hyperbolic plane or a carnation flower than a rose.
I ask myself if this has to do with the fact that I have brown thumbs? ;-))
Links:
Knitted Flowers (knitting / flower patterns)
dort u.a. Knitted Rose (knitting / flower patterns 202)
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Entries with the tag ‘stash’
TED Talk: Nature, Crochet and Geometry
Seed Starters
I mean to say that the photo convinced me that wallpaper as gift wrap is eminently suited!
And if you went in cardmaking a little bit, too, you surely still have same wallpaper rests laying around ;-)
Links:
Wallpaper Gift Wrap (bugs and fishes by lupin: Gift Wrap Ideas #7: Wallpaper)
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
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’