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Periodic table - make cardboard furniture

Ever wanted to make your own furniture, but don’t have tools, space, or woodworking skills? Well it is possible to make sturdy, usable, unique furnishings yourself, out of something most people have lying around at home – the humble corrugated cardboard box. Flimsy though it may seem, cardboard furniture can be very strong. Today I’m [...]

Make children's play furniture from milk cartons

For this week’s Saturday Quickie, I’d like to share a tip about how to make kids play furniture from nothing more than milk cartons, newspaper, and parcel tape. You can make comfy child-size armchairs, tables, couches, beds – all lightweight yet sturdy and strong enough to take even an adult’s weight.

You need:

Milk or [...]

Make a faux-cane basket... from paper!

This week, we’ll be making some surprisingly sturdy paper baskets. These baskets are a great way to recycle old magazines and flyers into attractive and useful objects.

You’ll need:

Fairly thin paper – for example old magazine pages, grocery store flyers, or the flimsier kind of junk mail. tape scissors (possibly) clothes pins or bulldog [...]

Japanese paper frame with origami stars

What Valentines gift could be more personal than a picture of the two of you in a handmade frame? Today we’ll finish off our little love-fest by making a photo frame decorated with Japanese paper and origami stars.

Of course, if you don’t have any Japanese paper, you could just as easily use gift-wrap or [...]

How to build a cheap bead loom

Loom beading or bead weaving was widely used be Native American and other cultures. Conventional beading can be thought of as one-dimensional – beads are strung in a single line – but bead weaving is 2-dimensional, producing flat decorative pieces for cuff bracelets, hatbands, bags, and many other decorative items.

Commercial bead looms start at [...]

Shibori felting - recycle an old sweater into a stylish bag and scarf

The Japanese word shibori is an umbrella term for several kinds of resist dyeing such as tie-dye. Shibori felting uses these fabric manipulation techniques to produce interestingly-textured felt fabrics. Here we’ll be recycling an old wool sweater to make a dramatic purse and scarf set.

For this project you’ll need:

An old wool sweater (any [...]

Make a cheap knitting loom

Loom knitting is a fun way to introduce children to knitting, for those who have problems handling regular knitting needles, or an extra tool in a knitter’s repertoire of techniques. You can create hats, socks, mittens, bags – a whole array of knitted items. Unfortunately, commercial knitting looms can be expensive, especially if you want [...]

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