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"Undersea Tawashi Collection" 6 patterns, $4.50
"3 Flower Tawashi" 3 patterns, $3.50
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In a recent post, we learned how to fingerweave friendship bands in diagonal stripe and chevron patterns. Today, lets look at how we can make lengthwise stripes, checks, and other designs. To make diagonal stripes and chevrons, each strand in the design took a turn at being the ‘working’ strand, which the other strands were [...]  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 [...] Hand-painting yarn is a way to make striped or variegated yarns, in the precise colours and pattern that you want. Hand-painted yarns can be really lovely, but the process itself is so easy that a child can do it – in fact I had my Saturday school kids – aged 3-7 – help me out [...] A little while ago we looked at the first steps of how to design an amigurumi. We learned how to break down a sketch into simple shapes and how to translate that into a pattern. Today I’d like to show you how to add an extra dimension to your designs, adding curves using tall-row shaping. [...] Having a good weekend? Hope so! This weeks’s quickie is another musical kids craft – an easy to make ‘harmonica’ which is played by blowing and makes a sound like a duck whistle or a kazoo. You’ll need: Card cellophane or waxed paper tape scissors markers, crayons, stickers, etc. Cut two strips of card around [...] 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 [...] 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, [...] Here in Japan, we’re getting ready for Boys Day on May 5th. Already, koinobori (carp-shaped banners) are starting to appear in front of households with boys in the family, traditionally one banner for each boy. The carp is a symbol of strength and perseverance, swimming untiringly upstream. Another common symbol seen as a boys-day decoration [...] For this week’s Saturday Quickie, I’d like to show you how to make a kokeshi doll from recycled drinks bottles. Kokeshi are traditional Japanese dolls, usually made from turned wood. The origin of the kokeshi doll is rooted in tragedy – ‘ko’ meaning ‘child’ and ‘keshi’ meaning vanished or disappeared, they were originally made by [...] |
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