…compilation of tutorials
At craftster.org I have seen a tutorial on how to make a woven magazine bag.
I like as well the bag as well the tutorial ;-)
You can use my folded paper strips of equal width ;-)
Links:
The Original Woven Magazine Bag!!
At unikatissima: Folded Paper Strips of Equal Width
I always like to crochet, best not too large projects (because of the patience ;-))
The Shoe-torial therefore hits the mark: it is a tutorial on how to revamp shoes with crochet.
Great!
I think that it should work also by knitting, but anyway that’s not my cup of tea.
At the next opportunity I will check my shoes if they can be revamped that way ;-)
Links:
Shoe-torial
I had a discussion the other day about all the stuff I simply can’t throw away – and then I found a tutorial about crafting with glasses. She makes beautiful pins from old glasses.
There you go! ;-))
By the way: I personally won’t craft with old glasses, because I found it a better use to spend glasses to people who can’t afford them.
This discussion takes also place at the tutorial and after having read it I think that funkylicious has a point: Those who craft with old glasses can do charity in so many ways.
Links:
Crafting with Glasses
I always like looking for Origami tutorials and this time I’d like to present a tutorial for a little purse.
I know those purses from former times, they were made from leather. I had one, and soon I will make one from paper ;-)
Thinking about it, it must look great, if you use coloured magazine paper?! I have to try this.
Links:
Moroccan Purse
The link has been changed:
Moroccan Purse
I wanted to present a tutorial on how to make a paper bowl from paper stripes, there are lots of them.
With such a craft you can do with my tutorial on how to fold paper strips of equal width ;-))
Have fun rolling and glueing!
Links:
Tutorial on how to make a paper bowl from paper stripes – Coiled Paper Basket
Another tutorial on how to make a paper bowl from paper stripes – Magazine Bowl
unikatissima’s tutorial on how to fold paper strips of equal width
As I said before, I mostly knit/crochet with the yarn end that sits in the skein to prevent the skein to roll all over.
Sometimes I must roll my yarn ball myself and I found that the tutorial on how to make my own center pull yarn ball is really a help.
It works great!
Links:
Center Pull Yarn Ball
Here at unikatissima:
Detangling Yarns
I found a wonderful simple technique for beautiful backgrounds: a tutorial on how to stencil with paper doilies.
Isn’t it great?
At my next shopping i must look for paper doilies ;-))
Links:
Paper Doilies Stencils
Once I saw the beautiful paper bead jewelry at newspaperjewelry.com and was stunned. Then I found a tutorial on how to make a paper bead bracelet at craftster.org with some really good ideas, e.g. to fix the paper beads with hair pins or to coat everything with modpodge.
Just another item on one of my to-do-lists ;-)
Links:
craftster.org: My preferred craft forum
Paper Bead Bracelet
newspaperjewelry.com: Beautiful paper beads jewelry
Once I wanted to play a little bit with mosaic for a door board (see photo) but without having to buy all those materials. I didn’t know if I would use them ever more.
Therefore I figured out how to make my own mosaic stones from plaster and wrote a German tutorial.
I’m giving here a translation, see some photos at the German tutorial.
How to make your own mosaic stones:
You need:
What to do:
Links:
Make your own mosaic stone (German)
Slow down drywall-plaster drying time with vinegar (English)
What to do to delay drying time of plaster? (German)
(Somebody here tried a drop of dish liquid in place of vinegar and said that it worked)
There are many recipes for making papier mache which I still want to try out.
On the photo you see one of my many UFO’s ;-)
It is a wall-vase-to-be, made with tore newspaper stripes and ready to use wall paste.
Links:
At ‘The Papier Mache Resource’ :
Some Advanced Papier Mache Recipes (English)
Take also a look at the other tutorials, the articles and the galleries
More recipes:
(Google search results)
Search for ‘paper mache paste recipe’
Search for ‘papier mache rezept’
Image search for ‘paper mache paste recipe’
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