…compilation of tutorials
When recently looking at Kokopelli’s blog she presented a necklace in viking knit.
Looks great!
I made some research and found a great photo tutorial.
But I won’t to try it out (for the time being? ;-)) because I don’t want to buy more stuff.
At least I think so…
;-))
Links:
Photo tutorial Viking Knit
Recently I found the recipe for the 5 minute chocolate cake and it really worked! ;-))
Ok, ok, the something on the photo may not look soo mouth-watering but it was very tasty.
Anyway I adjusted the recipe slightly: instead of 4 tablespoons of sugar I used 2 tablespoons and because I didn’t have vanilla extract I added a sachet of vanilla sugar. This was nearly too sugary for us, it could be less.
What is more I only had olive oil at home and I thought that this wouldn’t taste so good, therefore I only took 1 tablespoon.
That is possibly the reason why it became a little too solid. Next time I’d melt and use some margarine. And then I had the cake in the microwave for 3:30 min because we ‘only’ have 800 W.
That’s how it looked when it was still in the bowl, but I tipped it out for eating.
I wanted to know how it looks from the other side ;-)
I already bought a jar of cherries, next time I want to add some.
Links:
5 Minute Chocolate Mug Cake
When surfing at craftster I found a most beautiful cushion embroidered with a Matisse painting.
Be assured that I won’t make it, because my patience doesn’t suffice at all for this kind of work, but I really wanted to present it.
Links:
At craftster: Matisse Pillow
Instruction for chain stitch (English)
Instruction for chain stitch (German)
I’ve often seen bowls made from old vinyl records, but I find the bracelets from vinyl records nevertheless special.
Even so I won’t make none because I won’t be able to ‘batter’ the vinyl records like that ;-)
Links:
At craftster: Vinyl Record Bracelets
I found an instruction for a nice paper flower and thought that this should work with self-coloured paper, too.
It did ;-)
First I painted on a sheet of toilet paper with some markers.
I dropped water on my ‘painting’, but it was a little too much water and everything swam.
In order not to get everything dirty I have put it luckily on an old little plastic bag.
Therefore I put another sheet of toilet paper onto the first, the water and the dye dispersed on both.
I blow-dried everything to dry it faster ;-)
I cut my papers by guess and by gosh, that is to say without a pre-sketched spiral and my scissors were quite blunt.
That may be the reason why my little ‘roses’ look so beautiful ;-)
Links:
Paper Flower – the tutorial works backwards, you must always click the previous picture to get the next step
This time I don’t present a ‘real’ instruction, but even I should be able to sew those little tee bags ;-))
I for one find it always great if somebody in this throwaway society produces reusable items.
I’m thinking hard if I should dig up my sewing machine, but we don’t drink so much tea…
Links:
Reusable Tea Bags
via craftster
I enthused already about patchwork knitting, now I even found an instruction for socks in this technique – and what for socks!
In fact I’m not one for sock knitting but here I’m really tempted ;-)
Links:
Module Sock – click there onto the same photo that you see here above, behind lies the PDF file with the instruction
Instructions for knitting the modules:
Potholder knitting (English)
Potholder knitting (German)
Here at unikatissima: Patchwork Knitting
Aren’t those pendants beautiful?
I was totally thrilled when finding the instruction.
Now I must simply purchase some plexiglas, fabric dye and a saw as well as a drill to process them.
I’m sure I will ;-))
Links:
At craftster: Dyed Plexiglas Necklaces
I found something new to collect: carpet samples!
What for? For instance for a rocking chair, a pet house or a fancy vase.
Simply take a look at Ample Sample Ample Sample (scroll down to 2008 winners).
And the best of all: For all those things they offer instructions.
Crazy! ;-))
Links:
Ample Sample Winners
Tutorial moved to: Ample Sample Winners => scroll down to 2008 winners
I found a fantastic tutorial on how to colour (more or less) haphazardly stripes of cardboard!
I put it at the top of my try-it-list (and it pushes other things down the list ;-)).
Links:
Psychedelic Batik Cardstock