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"Undersea Tawashi Collection" 6 patterns, $4.50
"3 Flower Tawashi" 3 patterns, $3.50
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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 [...]  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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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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