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Ohfransson.com/ Wall-E Art. Print Hula Hoop Rug Page | Crafts. Making a Fabric Locket. I’ve been rolling the idea of a hand-crafted locket around in my head for about a month now. I’ve tried making lockets out of all kinds of paper, craft foam, even aluminum foil- but nothing has worked out the way I envisioned it. Truthfully, I’m not great at sewing, so I kept putting a fabric locket off …until now.

While this locket isn’t the most beautifully crafted, I feel like it’s successful enough to share with you here. I mean, I would wear it. After collecting my potential materials, I started by drawing the chalk outline of two hearts (connected at the curve) onto my wool blouse. Next, I folded the heart in half (keeping them connected), and trimmed away the excess fabric. I wanted the back of the pin to be sturdy and strong, so I cut out a paper backing from a grocery bag. While I figured out the configuration of the inside of the locket, I pinned down green rickrack trim all around the lid… and sewed it in place.

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Attempting the T-Shirt Necklace. Last week, every day snuck up on me, catching me off guard, and leaving me behind schedule. It may have been my very heavy heart thinking about the devastation in Japan. It could have been the time change that left me groggy every day, all day. But I’m fairly certain I felt perpetually past-deadline because a “simple” craft failed me repeatedly at the start of the week and threw the blog into scramble-mode.

That craft was the T-Shirt Necklace. I was looking online for fun crafts to do with my nieces after school, and came across the “T-shirt Necklace” on MarthaStewart.com. Fail #2 The problem with the first two attempts may have been the material used (100% cotton t-shirts that were SLIGHTLY stretchy,) but more likely it was because I used regular scissors to cut the strips of fabric, (ok, I also washed and dried the pink necklace to see if that would put some curl in my edges) and completely disregarded the rolling blade (or rotary cutter) recommendations. Il_570xN.217480787. Uniquely Scandinavian: A Crocheted Stool Makeover » Curbly | DIY Design Community « Keywords: DIY, crochet, stools, how-to.

I've never crocheted before in my life, but after seeing this charming stool I've got a serious desire to learn how! Kristin from Sweden shared this stool makeover on IKEA Hackers, but I'm wondering what else you could spruce up with a little crochet action... Any ideas? While you're thinking about what else you could cover in yarn, let's see what we'll need to create this whimsical stool. Materials: A stool (this one uses the Marius Stool from IKEA)Cotton YarnFoamFreeform pattern from Ravelry Kristin explains she first crocheted long tubes to cover the stool legs and then created the freeform birds. So, have you thought of what else you'd give the crochet treatment to? [via IKEA Hackers] Tagged : crochet, stools, How-To, Ikea hack, scandinavian, yarn, Inspiration, Craft, DIY.

Newspaper flowers. I'm still on the newspaper kick. I picked out the parts with colored ads and made these flowers with instructions from the book Paper Flowers by Michael LaFosse. Found it at the library. These are made with two pages of newspaper glued together to make a thicker sheet. There they are, adorning the newspaper basket. Il_430xN1553013841. Ten minute no-sew recycled t-shirt bag! Tutorial time! I got a gig teaching a recycled t-shirt project at the library a few months ago, with a request for a recycled tee bag – the only bags I’d made from tees in the past had required sturdy sewing, and I didn’t want hand-sewing to be the only thing holding the bottom closed in a class version of the bags, so I started brainstorming about some kind of hand-sewing-friendly or no-sew bag idea…. and here’s what I came up with! The simplest version of these bags is great for smaller tees, or the more light-weight kind of girl-tees – just turn the bottom of the shirt into a drawstring and tie it closed!

As you can see, even with a not huge tee, this will still leave a significant hole in the bottom of your bag, but for purposes like grocery shopping, this size hole shouldn’t really matter… But to make smaller holes, just make more than one of them! Here’s a bag bottom with 2 holes: You could make it rounded, V-shaped, or squared like this one: My finished Sonic bag! Kissing Thaumatrope. A few years ago, I thought that it would be so fun to make Joe a kissing thaumatrope for Valentine's Day. Like so many of my BRILLIANT ideas, I promptly forgot all about it. Until recently, when I saw this thaumatrope-on-a-stick on Made by Joel, and it reminded me that I had to try it. Even though they're not done, I'm showing you my work in progress now, just in case you want to use this idea to make your very own thaumatrope valentines.

Are you wondering what I am talking about? On one side it looks like this: On the other side it looks like this: When you spin the stick, it looks like this: Movie magic! I'm making some for my three little Valentinos, too. If you do make your own, please send me a picture! Materials: Paper, cardboard, double-stick tape or glue, round chopstick or kebab stick, photo prints or drawings of kissers in profile. Turn Thrift Store Art into a Child's SilhouetteThe Bee and The Bobbin | Apartment Therapy Ohdeedoh.

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