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"Undersea Tawashi Collection" 6 patterns, $4.50
"3 Flower Tawashi" 3 patterns, $3.50
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Beaded embroidery can turn the most mundane of items into something luxurious and beautiful. Today we’ll learn how to embroider with beads using backstitch, and make a beaded felt applique that you can sew or glue to anything, or wear as a piece of jewellery. Beaded embroidery has a long history, and there are many [...]  This video shows you two ways of joining yarn – a Russian join and a felted join (spit splice). Russian join is more complicated but can be used to join pretty much any yarn. A felted join is very quick and easy, which makes it good for crafts like nalbinding where you have to [...] Nalbinding was around 2000 years before knitting. Examples of this ancient technique have been found by archaeologists in Egypt and across Northern Europe. Some call it ‘Viking Knitting’ as it was most widespread amongst Scandinavian peoples. But what is it, and how is it done? Nalebinding (also spelled nalebindling, naalbinding or nalbindning) means ‘needle tying’ [...] Here’s an interesting way to make your own unique jewelry, by combining beads and handwoven textiles. The beads are an integral part of the weaving, rather than being sewn on afterward, and by mixing up beads, colours, shapes and weft materials you can create some truly stunning original pieces. These large-hole matte glass beads are [...] A few weeks ago, we learned how to cast on, knit, increase and decrease, and bind off. Today, we’ll add to that by learning to purl, and a rather nifty technique called illusion knitting, to make what at first glance looks like a simple striped handbag. Seen from the right angle, however, a row of [...] Amigurumi is a Japanese word meaning ‘knitted stuffed toy’. Amigurumi are simple to make, once you’ve learned the basic techiques, and a fun way to use up scraps of yarn. Today I’ll show you how to crochet one of the simplest shapes, a ball – and to show you just how versatile even the simplest [...] Here’s an attractive way to recycle aluminium cans – create an embossed cloisonne or enameled effect that can be used for buckles, brooches, hair accessories, trinket boxes, keychains, fridge magnets, and many other uses. It’s much simpler than you’d expect to create this lovely soda can art! You need: An aluminium drinks can Craft knife [...] Here’s part 2 of our basic sewing tutorial. On Wednesday we made a coin purse and learned how to sew whipstitch. Today, we’ll learn backstitch and blanket stitch, and make a bright floral phone case (or camera case, or eyeglasses case…) With these three stitches – whip stitch, blanket stitch, and backstitch – you can [...] Origami is a cheap and rewarding craft – all you need is your hands and a piece of paper. But did you know that with a few extra materials, you can turn your origami into unusual and surprisingly robust jewellery? Today I’ll be showing you how to make this pretty and easy origami waterlily brooch. [...] In our last post, we glued together layers of cardboard and prepared our periodic table decoration to make a cardboard table. Today, we’ll cut out and assemble our table. First step is to mark the cut lines. The easiest way to mark out the tabletop is to lay out all the bits of your periodic [...] |
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