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"Undersea Tawashi Collection" 6 patterns, $4.50
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I remember making tons of these when I was in secondary school! The technique for making these colourful friendship bands is called fingerweaving, although more accurately it is a form of macrame as the fabric is formed by tying knots. A variety of different designs can be made using just two basic knots (well technically [...]  Here’s 5 fun and useful ways to recycle milk or juice cartons! 1. Make a wallet Cut down the side of the carton, and cut as pictured. Fold in half, and cut the bottom section up the centre, and v-shaped cuts in the centre of the middle section. Fold the bottom section up, then [...] There are plenty of cool leatherwork tutorials out there, but what do you do if, for ethical or other reasons, you don’t use or wear leather? One interesting way to recycle old jeans, or to get the exact shade of artificial leather you want for a project, is to make your own. This home-made fake [...] Thanks to Choperena for inspiring me to try this with her comment on Monday’s post! We’ve already mentioned that food dyes and acid dyes are very similar – in some cases the same chemicals. One readily available source of liquid food dye is soft drinks. Look for drinks which contain artificial colours – cola, for [...] Smocking is the art of embroidering over pleats, to form a pretty and stretchy gathered fabric. Lovely on baby clothes, smocking also features heavily in this season’s Anthropologie collection, and today we’ll be learning 2 smocking stitches – outline stitch and trellis stitch – to make over a mans t-shirt into a heavily embellished tank [...] Hope everyone’s having a great weekend! Today’s weekend quickie was inspired by these cool PVC chromatic drums. My topic for my Saturday class this month is musical instruments, and today we made percussion instruments. Sawing up PVC tubing seemed a mite challenging for 3-7-year-olds, but luckily I had some sturdy cardboard tubing lying around. You’ll [...] 
*special request! If you like this project, please consider casting a vote for it in the instructables.com garden contest! Thankyou * Plarn, if you haven’t heard of it before, is yarn made by knotting together strips of old plastic bags, which can then be knit or crocheted. Who doesn’t have a stash of plastic [...] Happy Saturday! For this week’s quickie, we’ll make a cute jellyfish decoration, perfect for a sea-themed kids room or party. Even very young children should be able to make these with a little supervision. You’ll need: Plastic carrier bag, preferably semi-transparent coloured paper tape yarn, string, ribbon or streamers permanent marker Turn the bag handles-down, [...] These paper bugle beads are incredibly quick and easy to make, and by using different papers and experimenting with the length and width of your triangles, you can make many different sizes, shapes and effects. You could even use wavy scissors or pinking shears for more interesting effects. You need: Paper, of any type scissors [...] On Wednesday, we learned how to make a miniature frame loom for weaving small pieces. Frame looms can be made in many sizes, from coaster size, right up to looms a metre or two in height, such as Navajo looms. You can make a DIY frame loom from various materials – a cardboard box, PVC [...] |
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