…compilation of tutorials
I found a tutorial from the end-50s that I find funny: Bottle Cap Crochet.
Personally I find the shapes of the hot plates a little too vintage, but one can always create another shape.
The only problem I see is that in our supermarket all bottle caps are made from plastic ;-) Perhaps then better a bottlecap pincushion? ;-)
Links:
Bottle Cap Crochet
Here at unikatissima:
Bottlecap Pincushion
On a brasilian recycling website I found a good tutorial on how to make a box from PET bottles (click there on ‘Tutorial – How to make a square box’).
I won’t do this because we don’t buy so many PET bottles and if we do we can give them back.
But I think that the tutorial can be used with other materials, too, I will once take a look.
Links:
Utsumi – Crafts with PET plastic, click there on ‘Tutorial – How to make a square box’
That’s a stunning idea: to make a sling for a water bottle from two ties!
She filled her ‘purse’ already with other stuff.
Great!
I like my ties too much for this, I will have to take a good look at the next jumble sale :)
Links:
Two-Tie Sling
I found a tutorial on how to make a soft winter scarf from plush, and it looks rather easy.
That’s important! ;-))
Links:
Soft Winter Scarf
Via one of my most preferred check-this-out blogs art for housewives I found a website with homemade paint recipes.
I liked best that they are made with stuff from household and tempera paint or food colouring.
On the photo you see some of the ingredients I already gathered, but unfortunately I don’t have no tempera paint nor food colouring at home.
Still to purchase :)
Links:
Homemade Paint Recipes
via art for housewives
Once again I found a tutorial about something I really want to try once: Collograph Printing.
I think it could be fun: to glue stuff onto cardboard, to ink it and to press a sheet of paper onto.
The paragraph where they wrote, that you can use moistened watercolour paper and get some embossed paper was most interesting to me.
I will ;-))
Links:
Collograph Printing
Once I found a great blog entry where somebody showed how she’s working her stash and scrap yarns into a scarf. Unfortunately I don’t find the entry back ;-(
In principle she sorted her stash according to colours (her example was made in blues) and from each yarn she crocheted a long row, every row even in another crochet stitch.
I hope that the photos are a help.
I found the result so stunning that I made a birthday gift for a good friend from it ;-)
By the way, this can surely be done in knitting, too!?
I found a tutorial on how to make cute, fast, self-made packages. They are self painted, respectively self stamped boxes like the recycled card pillow box I presented some time ago.
Concerning the stamping I even found an instruction on how to mass produce greeting cards (it is no real mass production, but she’s making a good many beautiful greeting cards ;-))
I had no reason yet to make this, but it is not soo long until Christmas ;-))
On the photo I already arranged my (for a good deal self carved) stamps ;-)
Links:
Decorating Boxes for Special Occasions
Pattern Paper & Mass Produced Cards
At unikatissima:
Recycled Card Pillow Box
Eraser Stamps
I found a blog entry with a very cute idea: a really nice paper decoration for pens.
She offers an image that you can download and print, then you cut the decorations out and glue them onto your pens.
The blog is in French and these are the relevant points:
Click onto the image to download the PDF file with the right mouse button.
Print the pictures onto fine paper.
Cut out the images and glue onto ypur pens.
Hint: Cut the white picture with the cherry blossoms inside of the green frame.
When sharpening the pen cut first a piece of the paper away with a sharp knife and then sharpen the pen carefully.
Links:
Paper pen decoration (French)
Ply-split is a kind of weaving, but the multi-plied threads are woven through in place of over and under each other (ok, I understand, that this description isn’t very good, best take a look at the links below ;-))
In my entry Freeform Embroidery you can see at the bottom of the photo, too, how ply-split can look.
The photos show my attempts at ply-splitting, you can get a muuuch better idea by browsing the Google image search.
I once even tried to make a pendant with this technique, but it didn’t really work.
Anyhow I still like the combination of ply-split and beads.
Links:
Linda Hendrickson Tablet Weaving and Ply-Split Braiding: scroll down to ‘Ply-split braiding’
On the same site you can find articles about ply-splitting: click in the left navigational bar on ‘Links’, then click on ‘Ply-splitting’, then click on ‘Articles’, then you find 3 articles from Weaver’s
Ply-Splitting at weavershand: links to galleries, instructions and websites of ply-split artists
Instruction: Ply-split darning Bookmark: click in the left navigational bar on ‘Ply split braiding’, then click on ‘Begin Braiding 2d Ply Split’
Instruction for a ply-split scarf as PDF (ca. 156 KB) – it looks to me that one have to have some experience with ply-splitting
Instruction for a beautiful snake – it looks to me that one have to have some experience with ply-splitting