Beaded Freeform Wire Crochet

sqbr Freeform Wire Crochet

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I really love freeform and freeform crochet and therefore I found of course the instruction on how to crochet a freeform necklace with wire and beads instruction on how to crochet a freeform necklace with wire and beadsinteresting.
I haven’t tried it yet because I (still) have no jewelry wire and she wrote that her wire has since gone all rusty – it doesn’t have to come to this.
I will make the necklace one day!


Links:
How to make a beaded freeform wire crochet necklace
The original site doesn’t exist any more and is now available through webarchive:
How to make a beaded freeform wire crochet necklace
Thanks, Louise, for telling me! :)

Here at unikatissima:
Entries with the tag ‘freeform’
Entries containing ‘freeform’ and ‘crochet’

Colour Combinations

kris's color stripes Colours

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A good many times I need colour combinations for all sorts of things and it is diffcult for me to select colours so, that I like them.
kris’s color stripes is a great help because she takes photos and ‘extracts’ a colour palette from them.
If you’re not interested in the photos to the colour combinations you can go directly to kris’s other blog where you find ‘only’ the colour combinations and where you can let search all colour combinations for one colour (e.g. orange).


Links:
kris’s color stripes (color-stripes.blogspot.com) – photos and their colour combinations

kris’s color stripes (kris-color-dots.blogspot.com) – ‘only’ the colour combinations
all colour combinations with orange

Self-made Fabric Print Stamp Pad

jezze Fabric Print Stamp Pad

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Somewhen I also want to try fabric printing and then the instruction on how to make a fabric print stamp pad will come handy.

I think that it should also be usable as ‘normal’ ink pad, I should try this sometime.


Links:
Self-made Fabric Print Stamp Pad (‘Tech’ update)

Here at unikatissima: Entries with the tag ‘stamping’

Gourd Purses

allfreecrafts Gourd Purses

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I don’t remember what I was searching for, but then I found the tips and hints for making gourd purses.
Wow!
A little more research showed more gourd crafts at the same site and even a site only dedicated to the subject of making your own gourd purse making your own gourd purse.
There you can find more instructions, for coiled rims from seagrass coiled rims from seagrass or pine needles pine needles e.g.

I find them all most beautiful but (fortunately?!) ;-)) I can’t get no gourds, otherwise I could be tempted to try this, too ;-)


Links:
At All Free Crafts:

At Southeast Texas Gourd Patch (see left navigation bar there):

Tutorial moved:
At Southeast Texas Gourd Patch (see left navigation bar there):

Google search result for ‘gourd purse’
Google image search result for ‘gourd purse’

Here at unikatissima: Coil a Basket

Aerial Image Greetings

geogreeting unikatissima

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Today there’s no tutorial, but I liked the aerial image greetings so much that I wanted to share.

Click on the picture to enlarge and to see better what this is about.

But the picture is only the result, the whole message is revealed letter by letter.

Have fun sending love to good friends!


Links:
geoGreeting – How geeks show they care
unikatissima at geoGreeting

Sweater Scarf

Spun Magazine Sweater Arm Scarf

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Once I found an instruction on how to make a scarf from felted old sweaters but the website doesn’t exist anymore.
The photo is from the website, click to enlarge.

 

That’s how they did it:

  1. Wash sweaters from 100% wool (mohair works fine, too) with some laundry detergent.
  2. Felt in dryer.
    Felting makes the fabric so dense that it doesn’t unravel when cut.
  3. Cut stripes from the sweaters in the width you want the scarf to be.
    The lengths will vary depending on the part of the sweater where you cut the piece.
    In the instruction they used mainly the arms.
  4. Eventually simply sew the pieces together, whether with a sewing machine or by hand.
    The seam can be used as a decorating element.
  5. The scarf can subsequently be embellished: with buttons, felted flowers, beads, pom-poms, fringes, embroidery and so on.

In fact I would like to have a cardigan-kind garment made with this technique, no scarf.
Therefore I went to several second hand stores to look for wool sweaters but found mostly sweaters from artificial material which don’t felt.
But I stay tuned ;-)


Links:
The original website that doesn’t exist anymore

Here at unikatissima: Entries with the tag ‘felting’