…compilation of tutorials
I find these yarn bombing things great but would never have known where to start.
The instruction on how to yarn bomb a chair helps :)
Links:
Yarn Bomb a Chair (Yarn Bombing: Warming up Your World)
via: Yarn bomb a chair
Yarn bombing has many names:
English Wikipedia entry for ‘Yarn bombing’
German Wikipedia entry for ‘Guerilla Knitting’
Even if you don’t want to build an unravel sweater machine you may have as much fun as I had looking at the video :)
By the way, it’s no joke, the unravel sweater machine can be used by charity projects where they unravel old sweaters to re-use the yarn.
Links:
Unravel Sweater Machine (National recognition for design with a novel take on recycling)
There is a link to the video: Imogen Hedges
via: Pedal-Powered “Un-knitting” Machine Unravels Sweaters to Recycle Yarn
With/from old books you can make a lot of things, even planters for succulents ;-)
I find them great!
Links:
Beautiful DIY Succulent Book Planters
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I presented before button collage necklaces, they were more playful than these simple and beautiful button pendants. They better match the button pins.
Links:
Button Pendant (How to Make a Cool Button Pendant)
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Button Collage Necklaces
Button Pin
After I presented a woven gift wrapping today a self-made gift wrap from stamped newspapers.
Another great idea :)
Links:
Self-made Gift Wrap (Day 914: Guest Post – Gift Wrap) (English) and
(Tag 914: Gastbeitrag – Geschenkpapier) (German)
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Gift Wrap becomes Coaster
What a beautiful idea: if you take away carefully the gift wrap you get a coaster :)
Links:
Gift Wrap becomes Coaster (4 Ways to Decorate Your Gift Packages with Yarn)
via: Creative Inspiration
via: yarn.
I found this leather belt bracelet as ‘Jewelry For Men’, but I find that if you use a more delicate belt also a woman can wear it.
Additionally you can then surely make also earrings and/or pins and/or pendants etc. from the rests of the belt ;-)
Links:
Leather Bracelets from Recycled Belts
via: DIY Jewelry For Men
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I find these recycled gift tags great!
As well the round as the rectangular elements can depending on the season easily be cut from old Birthday, Christmas, Easter, Spring or whatever cards, or from matching gift wrap papers that are glued to white paper for reinforcement.
In place of the gift wrap papers you should also can use pages from old books, beautiful pictures from (travel) brochures or self-made or self-stamped paper.
And photos.
And, yes, you should also be able to make a coupon Advent calendar! :)
And then you can also embroider, doodle, paint, cut to paper flowers the elements.
And incorporate small beads or yarn threads.
Whew, my imagination rans riot again ;-))
Links:
Recycled Gift Tags (Postkarten Recycling) (German)
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Aren’t the knitted cork Christmas trees cute?!
They are meant to embellish bottle corks, but actually you can make from them a beautiful coupon Advent calendar :)
By the way, you can get at Drops a very good (not only) knitting dictionary.
Links:
Knitted Cork Christmas Trees (Pint Sized Pines in a Cork Forest)
via: Pint Sized Pines
Drops main page
Drops (not only) knitting dictionary
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The wire and yarn mobile is surely nice in every season, however I can imagine the letters also very well as gift tags (e.g. for Christmas) or the single elements as numbers for the Advent calendar.
Links:
Wire and Yarn Mobile (Bokstav A) (also English)
via: Wire Letter Art
via: Great mobile idea
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Entries with the tag ‘Advent’
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