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"Undersea Tawashi Collection" 6 patterns, $4.50
"3 Flower Tawashi" 3 patterns, $3.50
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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 [...] 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 [...] 
I have so many pairs of disposable chopsticks lying around – no matter how many times I say I don’t need them, the convenience store clerks will still almost automatically put a pair in. Instead of throwing them away, I decided to make knitting needles from them instead. For this project you’ll need: Disposable chopsticks [...] 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, [...] Tawashi, or ‘eco scrubbies’, a popular small crochet project in Japan, are small dishcloths or pot scrubbers made from acrylic yarn. The benefit of acrylic is that it is amazingly good at removing food particles from dishes, meaning you need less soap for greasy dishes, and no soap at all for ordinary washing-up. This is [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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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