Tag: Recycling

Plastic Funnel

instructables Plastic Funnel

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Sometimes you need a big funnel – why not cutting the top of a plastic bottle and use this?
I find this instruction great again: with little means reaching something practical and additionally recycling :)

By the way you can use those funnels, too, when pouring little beads from one container to the other, I don’t like to use my kitchen funnels for this.

Incidentally you can use up the rest of your bottle, too ;-)


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Plastic Funnel (Never buy plastic funnels again!)

Here at unikatissima: Entries containing the word ‘plastic bottle’

Shape Book

cheeky magpie Shape Book

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I’ve seen some shaped books, at an exhibition e.g. in our public library and I always liked them.
Therefore I’ve been pleased to find a tutorial for shaped books – great! :))

By the way, there are folded books, too which seem to be interesting, too ;-)


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Shape Book Tute
folded books 2

Fabric Scrap Scarf

craftstylish Fabric Scrap Scarf

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Again a scarf from scraps ;-)
But this time it’s not only about scraps nor scarves: It’s about this technique, where you arrange fabric pieces and/or yarns on water-soluble sheet, where you make it ‘unslippable’ by spraying it with fabric glue where necessary, where you cover it with water-soluble sheet again and then sew more or less wildly in all directions to connect all elements with each other.
After rinsing it (thoroughly!) you get a more or less delicate fabric that you can use as scarf like on the photo, but you can also make a top top top or a one-of-a-kind vest one-of-a-kind vest poncho from.

There is even a book that shows how you can mix this technique with felting.

I really must do this once ;-)


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Mini Dress-Form Jewelry Stand

Craft Chi Mini Dress-Form Jewelry Stand

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I’ve seen several mini dress-form jewelry stands already but I find an instruction on how to make it yourself muuuch better ;-)

I really have to take a look for appropriate dolls at my next junk market visit ;-)


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Mini Dress-Form Jewelry Stand

 

Self-made Hairpin Lace Loom

unikatissima DIY Hairpin Lace Loom

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I found two tutorials on how to make a hairpin lace loom (see links below) and because I hadn’t the appropriate material at hand (in fact that’s strange seeing all the stuff I have lying here about ;-)) I did it a little different:
I took two toilet paper tubes, cut them lengthwise, rolled them up strongly and taped them all around.
Then I pricked two metal kebeb skewers through those thick cardboard rolls: my hairpin lace loom was done!
;-)

At last I could give hairpin lace a try and it – worked.

 

unikatissima DIY Hairpin Lace Loom
That is to say that I haven’t read the hairpin lace instruction at stichdiva thoroughly(!) and therefore it didn’t work in the beginning.
They write ‘Insert hook under thread of topmost loop’, but for me it isn’t the topmost thread (blue arrow) but the foremost thread (red arrow).
After I took the foremost thread everything worked fine.

At the moment I don’t have the time for it but in future I will play around with hairpin lace :)


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Instructions for self-made hairpin lace looms:
Instruction at ehow – from metal
there you can find further down (Resources) links to hair pin lace tutorials
Instruction at Little Projects – from bamboo skewers and hot glue sticks
via: DIY Hairpin Lace Loom: the link isn’t available no more.

Tutorial for base hairpin lace at stitchdiva

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Recycled Plastic Baseball Cap

My Recycled Bags Recycled Plastic Baseball Cap

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I presented bags/purses/totes made from plastic bags already (see links below), but I like a base cap from crocheted plastic bags very much, too.
Just the thing for summer :)

 


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Recycled Plastic Baseball Cap

Here at unikatissima: bags/purses/totes made from plastic bags

 

Woven Newspaper Vase

The Creative Year Woven Newspaper Vase

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I like paper weaving and recycling, too, but I like it even better if all come together ;-)

This happens here: they had the inventive idea to glue some newspaper on beverage cartons and weave them with plastic strips to make a (non-waterproof!) vase from.
What a great idea!


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Woven Newspaper Vase

Here at unikatissima:
Entries with the tags ‘weaving’ and ‘paper’
Entries with the tag ‘recycling’
Entries with the tags ‘weaving’, ‘paper’ and ‘recycling’

Flower Flap Box

unikatissima Flower Flap Box

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I saw somewhere (unfortunately I don’t remember where) such a box, but it was flat while I wanted the actual box (not the flaps) to be of about 2 cm height.
So I made me a template myself ;-))

 

And that’s what you do:
unikatissima Flower Flap Box Template (Click to enlarge)
That is the template.

 


Instruction for first box: Pasted paper

 

unikatissima Flower Flap Box
First print the template and cut it.

 

unikatissima Flower Flap Box
I wanted to have a Chinese box so I pasted the outside up with some Chinese newspapers that I stained with tea before (see links below).
Of course you can paste the paper up with gift wrapping, snippets from ads and so on, too.
I suggest to paste a second layer on the paper in any case to get it sturdier or to use thin cardboard.

 

unikatissima Flower Flap Box
When having pasted up all four flaps you can pre-fold the box. This way it will be easier to glue the tags.

 

unikatissima Flower Flap Box
Here is the glue setting.
You can see that I didn’t paste up the inside.

 

unikatissima Flower Flap Box
And that is the box in its full beauty ;-)
I suggest to let the glue set well because there will be some strain when you close the box and the tags can get unfixed.

Instruction for second box: Thin cardboard

 

unikatissima Flower Flap Box
After the first box I felt like making a box from thin cardboard.
The cardboard is from the wrapping of a pair of trousers I bought and I liked the colours of the printed picture.
So I put my printed and cut template on the cardboard, copied it and cut the cardboard along the lines.

 

unikatissima Flower Flap Box
I pre-folded the folding lines to get better folds.

 

unikatissima Flower Flap Box
Then I simply folded the box without glueing the tags.
The red arrow shows that there originates a gap.
Depending on what you want you can leave the box at that, the tags make sure that in spite of the gaps nothing will drop ;-)

 

unikatissima Flower Flap Box
Here I glue the tags to see what happens.
The box always got apart until I fastened it with an elastic.
The glue could set this way better.

 

unikatissima Flower Flap Box
And that is my second little box.
You can see at the edges that it is a properly closed box now ;-)

 


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Instruction for first box: Pasted paper
Instruction for second box: Thin cardboard
Template to print

Stain paper with tea
Tea Staining Your Art Journal Pages
Tea Stain Paper

Woven Plastic Bag

instructables Woven Plastic Bag

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I presented already the tote which is crocheted from plastic bags which were cut in stripes and the makeup bag made from fused plastic bags, this is yet another bag that uses nevertheless both techniques.

I find it great but won’t make it because here all plastic bags look the same and frankly, I find that it would look boring, then.

 


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Woven Plastic Bag (Tone twister bag)

Here at unikatissima:
Plastic Bag Tote
Fabric from Plastic Bags