…compilation of tutorials
I showed before a tutorial on crocheting bead ropes. These bead crochet instructions are different: this time you crochet something like a completely beaded fabric which you can use further for your projects. Use it e.g. for little purses.
Links:
Beadwrangler: A giant website with so many ideas, tipps and instructions that I have not yet finished seeing all of them ;-)
Bead Crochet
Here at unikatissima:
Beaded Crochet Rope
I said before that I like compact bowls. These wax bowls can surely be made as compact as the paper mache bowls but I’d think that they are a lot heavier.
Unfortunately I had not yet time to try it myself.
Links:
Wax Bowl
Here at unikatissima:
Double-Sided Paper Mache Bowl
I love those little boxes suitable for little gifts. So I was delighted founding instructions on how to fold an Origami one and made one immediatly. It was done with wrappings from dark chocolate which was completely adequate for the one who got the little box ;-))
Links:
Paper Matchbox Slide Box
Most of us have lots of CDs and/or DVDs to put somewhere we can find them back. I don’t especially like the CD cases from the point of view of their looks. Such a CD book can be so much more kitschy than every CD case can be ;-) (although some try hard ;-)))
Links:
Instructables – “The World’s Biggest DIY & How To Show & Tell”
CD or DVD Storage ‘Book’
I found (and enjoyed ;-)) this article at craftster and then remembered, that I once have seen an instruction on how to fold those little stars how to fold those little stars (the link isn’t available no more).
I tried it once but again my fingers didn’t worked the way I asked them ;-) This time it were the stars that looked clumsy ;-)
Links:
craftster.org: A giant craftsters community
Mini Star Bracelet (original topic title: “It’s Britney Bitch ;)”)
When I saw those fragrant lumps ;-) I thought: “What a wonderful idea!” and I saw them lying in the bathroom, on the patio, in the living room, next to my computer at work and in fact nearly everywhere gently oozing relaxing fumes ;-)
Links:
Fragrant Rocks
Fragrant Rocks
I found many a beautiful paper mache bowl in internet and I like those compact bowls, so this tutorial this tutorial was like made for me ;-)
I tried the technique and it worked out well and looked great. Unfortunately I gave them away (I made two bowls in different sizes) and don’t have any photo of them.
Links:
Double-Sided Paper Mache Bowl
The original site doesn’t exist any more and is now available through webarchive:
Double-Sided Paper Mache Bowl
I really like dried flowers, but I want to have them immediately, not after some days hidden in old books ;-)
Then I found this tutorial, where Christine Cox describes how to dry flowers in a microwave. She even tells about experiences she did with different kinds of flowers.
Links:
Drying Flowers in the Microwave
Yesterday I presented a how-to crochet with beads. For the rope you have to string beads on a thread which is a boring exercise. When you simply want to string the beads without any pattern you can use a bead spinner. Kimberly Chapman published a tutorial for making yourself a bead spinner out of reused materials.
What a great idea!
Links:
Making a Bead Spinner
Here at unikatissima:
Beaded Crochet Rope
Judith Bertoglio-Giffin writes: “These are very basic instructions“, but you have to begin somewhere ;-)
It was a real revelation for me because eventually I understood how it works.
But unfortunately my fingers are much to clumsy for this technique – or I am too impatient ;-)
Links:
Beaded Crochet Rope