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How to Marbleize Paper and Cards - Introduction - MarthaStewart.com. Immediately after removing the paper, place it in a pan, and pour water over it. Hang paper to dry, marbleized side up. Do not touch the paper until it is dry (typically within 2 hours, depending on humidity levels). Decide whether to keep or discard your solution (it can be used several times). To change paint colors, lay strips of newsprint across the solution's surface, then remove; repeat with clean strips until the solution is clear. You can store the solution in an airtight jar for about a week.

Don't leave it in the tray, which could rust. Pumpkins. You agree that the use of this website and all information and content contained herein is at your own risk and there is no warranty expressly made herein. You agree to hold Scott A. Stoll and www.stolloween.com harmless for any property damage, personal injury and/or death, or any other loss or damage that may result from the use of the following information, tools, materials and/or techniques. Questions or comments should be sent to scott@stolloween.com. The Pumpkins are created from plastic trash bags, newspaper, cardboard and two different papier mache techniques. The Pumpkin was originally designed as an entry into a prop building contest then evolved into the subject of several papier mache workshops and finally has become a very popular DIY Halloween project among enthusiasts. Fill a plastic trash bag with crumpled newspaper until it is the desired size and shape for your pumpkin.

Wrap twine or heavy cord around the newspaper filled bag to form ridges. Extra: PumpkinSkulls. Upcycled Sweater Boots. Paint Moss Graffiti - Step-by-Step Guides for Offbeat DIY Projects. Tutorial: Crock Pot Yarn Dyeing! You may not even know about these, but way back at the beginning of this blog, almost 3 years ago, I did a couple of kool-aid yarn dyeing tutorials. They were specifically how-tos for getting particular kinds of variegation (as opposed to dyeing basics) – part 1 being three blending colors, part 2 longer stripes of random-order solids. (I’ve just gone back and edited these old posts a little, changing some bad advice I’d given and some minor details, but not anything major.)

So, after 3 years and countless skeins of dyeing experience have now passed, I want to do a couple of new dyeing tutorials for you! (For the basics of dyeing, if you’re new to it, see the link list in my first tutorial, since this post is only meant for this particular variegation method, not for kool-aid dyeing in general.) I recently dyed up a skein of bulky yarn (Imperial Stock Ranch Lopi) with 5 different colors in my crock pot, for a spotty, kettle dyed kind of look, as you can see above. Fun! Craftster.org - A Community for Crafts and DIY Projects with Free Craft Ideas, Inspiration, Advice and More. DIY Stone Sconces. This is a super easy project that anyone can do on the super cheap.

I wanted some nice sconces for my guest bath downstairs. I looked high and low and couldn’t find anything I wanted and the ones I did like were about $20 a piece….story of my life. I couldn’t bring myself to spend $40 on 2 sconces for the guest bath. A few weeks back I was strolling the Dollar Tree trying to see if there was anything that I could fashion into a sconce. Anyway let us continue. I walked back into the Dollar Tree and grabbed 2 bags of decorative stones, glass tealight candle holders, a pack of glue sticks and some sponge brushes for $6.

I already has some wood at the house and some dark brown paint. We had a wood board that was 1/2 inch thick. Once the paint dried I nailed the picture handing hardware to the back, top part of the larger rectangles. Then hot glued the small bottom piece onto the back. Using a hot glue gun, glue the candle holder to the bottom in the center, add a candle and ur done! Seed Paper Tutorial | Gracious Rain. I first heard of seed paper–or hand made paper that has real flower seeds embedded in the pulp itself and is actually plantable–about a year ago while browsing through a stationary catalog. It was the coolest idea I’d ever seen–and so incredibly spring-y! Well, who knew that you could make this funky stuff all by yourself? And dang we had a good time! These would be just perfect to include with a birthday or Christmas card–don’t you think?

First Step: Making the Screen Frame Here’s what you’ll need for the screen frame: 6-12 wide craft sticks–think tongue depressors Craft glue 1 or 2 pieces of mesh or screen about 6″x6″ electrical tape Glue four sticks together–like this. Lay the screen over the sticks and glue in place. Now glue two more sticks–one on the top and one on the bottom. I rested a glass bowl over the frames to hold everything in place until the glue dried. Your frame should look pretty much like this. Second Step: Making the paper pulp Here’s what you’ll need to make the pulp: water. Kodachrome Curtains - Updated! Now with lampy goodness! So, it's been a while since I've made anything Craftster-worthy, but my husband and I busted out the Dremel tool a few days ago and we made this: It's a pair of curtains made out of old Kodachrome slides! I'm really interested in photography, and will buy old cameras in antique and thrift stores in order to develop film that's inside of it.

From time to time, I'll find collections of old slides and will buy those, too. Last fall, driving back from vacation, we stopped at an antique store outside of Kansas City and I found a box of a ton of old slides, mostly Kodachrome, from the 50s and 60s. I hate the idea that these pictures would just be resigned to the garbage or something, and wanted to display them (besides just scanning them in and putting them on Flickr - here's a link to my old found negative/slide collection, though, if you want to check that out: ). So, why not make them into a curtain? Thanks for looking!

Homemade Knitting Needles, Knitting Evangelism, and a Pretty Scarf Pattern. For my seventh birthday, my mom gave me a pair of light blue knitting needles and a ball of white yarn. She didn’t know how to knit, but sent me across the backyard to our neighbor’s house, where the retired librarian Marion Milligan took me under her wing. Marion taught me to knit and purl. I spent hours on her springy old sofa, or on lawn chairs in her backyard, working on my practice square while Marion turned miles of fluffy pink wool into exquisitely cabled sweaters for her granddaughters as she chain smoked (RIP, Marion). Soon I was knitting doll blankets, scarves, and slippers with big pompoms on top.

I’m not the best knitting teacher. So here’s a simple gift for you: Package up some homemade knitting needles with a skein of wool, an easy scarf pattern, and a heartfelt promise to teach your friend to knit. Making knitting needles is really fun. Rub on a thin coat of mineral oil, furniture oil, lavender oil, or sesame oil, and use a clean cloth to wipe off the excess. DIY: T-shirt Surgery. Image: flickr Do you have have tonnes of old baggy t-shirts crowding out your wardrobe and not sure what to do with them? Chopping them up and reconstructing them into funky, sexy and hip clothing is hot right now. Often called t-shirt mashups, t-shirt surgery, or t-shirt refashioning, whatever its called we love it.

TreeHugger has previously discussed SuperNaturale's t-shirts to underwear and looked at t-shirts to bags and of course the t-shirt to swimsuit, what else can you do with a t-shirt and how and where do you find out? Image: Oh my stars (where you can find other tutorials and images) Image: Skirt constructed from t-shirt at LekknerSome resources to get you started:1. tutorials and patterns at ::Oh my stars and ::livejournal and ::what the craft and ::instructables t-shirt mashup2. Knitty.com. WigUsing straight needles or one set of circulars, cast on 96 sts. Work in 2 x 2 rib until the piece is as long as the distance between the bottom of your chin, and your eyebrow (about 6.5"), ending with a WS row. NOTE: The extra stitches along the edge of the work will balance the width of the first and last ribs.

Later on, when the bangs are added, these stitches will become parts of purl ribs. If more length in the main body of the wig is desired, work more rows at this point. Next row [RS]: work as before, but slip the first and last stitch. Bangs With RS facing and using backward loop cast on, loosely CO 32 sts. If more length in the bangs is desired, work more rows at this point.

Work Decreases Using diagram B below as a guide, rearrange stitches on needles and add stitch markers. NOTE: Decreases will be worked identically at the front and back of the wig. Begin decrease round by working decreases over bangs. Woven Square Slippers: A Tutorial « Knitting Interrupted. So weaving is great for making flat fabric, and with my loom I can whip up a 12″ square in a couple of hours. But what are you going to do with all those squares? I mean, I can only make so many dish cloths, you know? Then I got an idea. Slippers for Ezra! 1. 2. And, using it as a drawstring, pull it tight, gathering up one side of the square to look like this: Now your square looks like this: 3. Leaving a hole in the top. Make another one and felt using your favorite method. Ezra hates them, of course, because he hates everything I make for him, but I think they’re pretty awesome. Like this: Like Loading... Cannibal Pumpkin: A Halloween How-To :: Etsy Blog.

Halloween is day after tomorrow — you better get carving! Not enough gruesome pumpkin eye candy for your Halloween baskets? Not to worry! Tom Nardone, crafty author of Extreme Pumpkins has a few more tricks (and treats) up his sleeve. Life requires bravery; if you’re timid, the cannibals will eat you for sure. To illustrate this point, each year I buy a giant pumpkin and feed other pumpkins to it. A ruthless jack-o’-lantern munching on the flesh of its own kind really frightens all the sweater-vest types. Here’s how you can scare your neighbors, too. Tom with a few of his pumpkin pals. Get inspired to get extreme! And his other book here! Pumpkin season is popular here on Etsy. More pumpkin treasures can be found in the related items below. Mounted and hung.

Free Plans: How To Make a Vertical Wall Mounted Wooden Wine Rack. TUTORIAL: Alexandra's Needle case. My old needle case really got me nervous! It was a quilt-one I bought several years ago, but it only had one pouch and kept my needles all mixed up. I didn't know what needle sizes I had and kept bying new needles all the time. I decided to sew a case large enaugh to host them all (and all the future wooden needles I'm going to make very soon!). So I made a case with fuor pouch strips. This case is 52cm (20½" wide) and 45cm (17½") high. It consists of 7 main parts + bindings. Outside fabric: 55x48cm (21"x18").

The hight of the pouch stripes are: 1) 38cm (15")2) 32cm (12 ½")3) 20cm (8")4) 12cm (4½") The width of the pouches are: 3) Pin the lining and the three highest pouch stripes together, alining them up at the bottom edges.4) Sew on top of the dividing lines from the back side.5) Pin the last pouch stripe (circular needles) in place, aligning at the bottom edge.6) Sew on the dividing lines from the back side, but only from the red marks to the first blue line.

Row Counter. It seems a lot of us knit at our desks. After seeing a post on LiveJournal about someone else's counter, and hearing the requests for a Mac version, I decided to write a Java one, so it would be cross-platform. Current Screenshot: More screenshots Update Status Last Updated 01/25/06. 01/25/06: Okay, working copy up, now that I'm feeling better.

Updates in this version: Made the window larger to prevent the progress bar being clipped off in some Mac versions. 01/09/06: More small changes/bug fixes. 12/16/05: Small changes this time. Oh, also there is now wimpy documentation below. 12/15/05: Big changes! Still to do: I'd still like to add a gauge calculator, at least. 12/11/05: Slightly tweaked interface, in preparation for bigger things, like multi-project support. 12/8/05 (Again): Added the ability to save and load your row count. 12/8/05: New version. Future Plans Multiple project support, perhaps a progress bar. Download Right click to download a zip file Old Version Help! Mailing List. AllFreeKnitting.com - Free Knitting Patterns, Knitting Tips, How-To Knit, Videos, Hints and More! Learn How to Knit.

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