Wrist Factor. One of the best things about nippy weather is yarn, in my book. I am all about walking around swathed in cozy knit and crocheted stitches, from my handmade hatted head down to my lovingly knit socked toes. For this week’s How-Tuesday, rock star crafter, designer, TV host, and writer, Vickie Howell, has created a pattern for knitting your own fingerless gloves. Once you get the hang of it, you might find yourself knitting up a pair for everyone on your gift list this season. I’m a huge fan of wrist warmers; they’re quick to knit, make great gifts (for guys and gals!) , and keep your hands warm without being cumbersome to wear.
After all, those pesky mitten tops could prevent us from clicking “Add to Cart” at our favorite Etsy shop. My Wrist Factor version looks extra fancy, but aren’t difficult to make. Sizes: S/M (L/1X) Finished Measurements: Each wristlet measures approximately 11 (12)”/28 (30.5)cm long x 3 (4)”/7.5 (10)cm wide. Materials: Stitch.Rock.Love. Special Terms:K: Knit Directions: V and Co how to: jersey knit bracelet. I don't know what it is about this time of year that makes me just want to have my bare feet in the sand, be watching the sun setting into the ocean, and breathing in the warm salty air of the beach...as i get older, more and more i find myself missing that place i used to go to almost every.single.day. as a teen. (my skin doesn't miss it. as a matter of fact, i now wish i listened more and DID put SPF on my face...hindsight is 20/20). my mom calls me from her walk on the beach almost every morning... *sigh*yeah, i get a little homesick around this time of the year. heck on my pinterest my "dreaming of summer" has the most pictures in it. ah yes. i miss my ocean. case in point. this bracelet, brought a flood of memories, not because i used to have one like it but because i can totally see me wearing it by the beach, not caring that it's gotten salty and wet, because i can totally make another one in like less than 5 minutes flat when i get home.
*sigh* okay... *cut off excess tails! Cool paper toy. [VIDEO] The Brownie Project. Creative Kismet & Blog Archive & little guiding stars. Since the new year has started I’ve been trying to think of ways to be more kind to my self. Especially when that nasty gremlins try to creep in and stump me. I remembered this origami star video on You Tube and had to get them involved in my plan. I thought it would be fun to make a whole bunch with kind words and “you are….” phrases inside. I made 60 of them, enough to last me the whole year if I open one a week, plus a few extra just in case. I used 12 x 12 inch scrapbook paper and cut 1/2 x 12″ strips, then followed the video HERE*.
I put them all in a little jar and prettied it up. They are so cute and sweet, like little treats. *UPDATE! Be Sociable, Share! » How to make a martingale dog collar - Green is Universal ReUser's Guide. Sailor's Knot Bracelets :: Etsy Blog. With fall days of colored leaves, chunky sweaters and spiced cider in our future, it’s just about time to pack up the beach gear until next year. Luckily, it doesn’t have to be summer to rock these stylish (and easy to make) nautical bracelets. I’m Simone of Groundsel, and a member of Etsy New York Street Team team. I made the following sailor’s bracelet tutorial using a Turk’s Head Knot for you to share with your summer friends. So, read on, and get knotty… Supplies you’ll need: 3.5 yards of twine14 ounce can for a smaller bracelet or a 20 ounce can for a larger bracelet.
Directions: Step 1: Wrap one end of the twine around the can to shape an X. Step 2: Wrap the long end of the twine around the can again and bring it up to the middle of the X. Step 3: Next, move the upper left leg of the X over the right leg of the X to create an oval shape. Step 4: Pull the long end of the twine through the oval shaped opening you just set up. Step 7: You will now find a three-stranded braid. Glass Painting With Yevgenia :: Etsy Blog. The impending arrival of summer brings with it a steady diet of ice cream and ice tea in my world! In this week’s How-Tuesday project, Etsy artist Yevgenia Davidoff (a.k.a. Yevgenia) shares tips for painting glassware. I think I might apply her advice to a glass painting endeavor to decorate vessels for my favorite summer confections.
This project would also make for a great Father’s Day present! I’m please to announce that Yevgenia will be joining us at Craft Night on Monday, June 7th (4-8 p.m.) to lead a similar project live from the Etsy Labs! I started painting on objects by accident about 6 years ago while searching for a birthday present for my dad. With this in mind, it wasn’t too difficult to figure out my next move because one of his favorite pastimes is cooking. Supplies you’ll need: Directions: First, clean the piece with rubbing alcohol or glass cleaner to remove any fingerprints or grease. Pebeo Vitrea 160 colors are water-based, luminous and intense. A few more tips… Tutorial: Homemade Sidewalk Chalk | oh my! handmade goodness.
By Michelle Vackar, Modern Handmade Child One of our favorite outside activities at our home is drawing with chalk on the driveway. You can play hopscotch, four-square, and of course draw and create silly stories. My daughters and I were talking one day as we played hopscotch about how to make chalk and I thought to myself, let’s try it! It ended up being quite a lot of fun. What you will need: • Toilet paper or paper towel tubes • Scissors • Duct tape • Wax paper • Small bucket or disposable container to make the recipe • ¾ cup of warm water • 1 ½ cups Plaster of Paris • 2-3 tablespoons of tempera paint • Paper bag or a “mess mat” ** we made six tubes of chalk – we simply doubled the above recipe Step 1: If you are using paper towel tubes, cut each tube in half, so it is roughly the length of a toilet paper roll tube.
Step 2: Cover one end of each tube with duct table to hold the contents within. Step 3: Cut as many pieces of wax paper as you have tubes. Organizational Fabruckets :: Etsy Blog. In this tutorial, the lovely Kim Grassie (a.k.a. kgeeme) and Corinne Pavlovic (a.k.a. iamcorinne) from Etsy’s Support Team detail how to sew fabric buckets to help you sort out your disarray, all while beautifying your home decor. Are you crafty but a little unorganized? Do you have a playroom that has one thousand tiny toys everywhere? This is the project for you! We are going to make three DIY fabruckets (a.k.a. fabric buckets — you can thank Tim for coining the name of this project) for anything and everything that is lying around without a place to live. Fabruckets can be used in your kitchen, bathroom, bedroom or work area. They can hold a yarn project that you swear you’re going to finish one day, uncooked noodles, car keys or even Q-tips. All you need to know is how to use a sewing machine!
Supplies you’ll need: Directions: 1. Tip: Cut your circles for each fabrucket close in size, and then you’ll have nesting fabruckets. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Make Your Own Sandals :: Etsy Blog. I’m Kathrin. I’ve always been inspired to make things, all kinds of things, using my personal interpretation of slow design. My material of choice is usually rescued or salvaged and then transformed into interesting, functional items and accessories. I love hand-sewing, but also enjoy developing unusual designs, which can be found on my blog, annekata.com. However, I recently got side-tracked with an idea for summer sandals… Summer shoes are a challenge for me. I don’t own flip flops, because I can’t find anything to like about them, except maybe their price tag. I thought the soles of flip flops were quite useful and maybe, just maybe, I could figure a way to attach something to make them into wearable footwear.
Materials: Make: Cut the rubber bits at the point where they come through the sole. These holes will be used for the ties around your ankles. Take a long strip (2 inches wide and long enough to wrap around you ankle) and knot one end. Eatsy: Plum & Ginger Natural Soda From Brooklyn Soda Works :: Etsy Blog. Nowadays a lot of folks are popping up with alternatives to commercially available foods. One such newbie is Brooklyn Soda Works and we couldn’t be more glad they’re here. Their origins are humble enough: Caroline Mak and Antonio Ramos, an artist and a chemist by training, looked everywhere for a ginger-y “ginger beer” but came up empty.
So they made their own, it was great, and they decided to make more. They filled out an application and started selling at a local hot spot, the Brooklyn Flea market. Soon, foodies took notice. With talented newbies like these stepping forth, operations like the Flea (where BSW’s sodas are sold every Saturday) are providing new platforms for talented food-inspired DIY-ers. Etsy also hopes to provide a platform, support and encouragement to all those interested in bringing their delicious food stuffs to the marketplace. Thank you, Caroline and Antonio, for sharing. Plum & Ginger Carbonated Juice (or Soda)Makes 1 liter; serves 3-4 people. Light Bulb Terrariums :: Etsy Blog. MP4 | YouTube | Vimeo | Blip.tv | Subscribe in iTunes (Music by Barry London and Eric Beug) For this week’s How-Tuesday, we’re resurfacing an old favorite. Enjoy! Just because the first flurries have decimated your window garden, there’s no need to settle for a season lackluster and dreary.
Lets get started! Materials Needed: ContainerCharcoalSoilRocksSphagnum mossNeedle-nose pliersLong tweezersScrewdriverPlants Step 1: Choose your container. Step 2: Add a layer of rocks. Step 3: Add a barrier layer of sphagnum or green moss, a layer of activated charcoal and a layer of soil (organic soil works best). Step 4: Gently settle in your plant and decorate the interior of the terrarium with figurines, twigs or other ornamental additions. Tweet this post or embed the video on your blog! If you don’t know how to embed a video on your blog — no worries, it’s simple. Click the symbol that looks like this on the video player at the top of this post.Copy the embed code from the “embed” tab. Make :: Etsy Blog. What’s better than receiving a giant chocolate egg? Receiving a giant chocolate egg with a surprise inside! This springtime treat is commonly found on European grocery store shelves wrapped in colorful foil paper or clear cellophane.
Some eggs have toys and small gifts inside and others are strictly candy-filled. Making your own hollow chocolate egg is easier than you might think, and you can customize the surprise inside to suit the recipient. Chocolate almond bark (sometimes referred to as chocolate candy coating) is easy to use because it doesn’t require tempering and provides glossy, flawless results. You can find it in the baking aisle at the grocery store next to the chocolate chips. This surprise egg is tailor-made for the seamstress in your life. Chocolate Surprise EggYield: One 8-inch egg Note: This egg holds spools of thread, candy buttons, an embroidered daisy handkerchief, candy-coated chocolates, a pin cushion, a thimble, a fabric quarter, and a tailor’s tape measure.
How-To: Japanese Zōri Sandals :: Etsy Blog. Make a Recycled Vase :: Etsy Blog. Have April showers driven you inside to your craft nook? Follow the lead of artist and creative reuse whiz Lee Christopher Hughes and pluck a plastic bottle from the recycling bin, transforming it into a vase to hold May flowers. Hughes is an artist and dad based in Allentown, Pennsylvania, who has found a way to transform plastic castoffs and hardware store treasures into elegant art objects and home decor.
Today’s How-Tuesday features a video by Amanda Danziger from Ferasha Films. I’ve been creating artwork for the past few years. I like to take recyclable items, particularly plastic bottles, and use them as the basis for creating decorative vases. Supplies you’ll need: Directions: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Thank you to Lee Christopher Hughes and filmmaker Amanda Danziger for sharing this project with us.
Recycling Projects | More How-Tuesday Posts. Page corner bookmarks | I Could Make That. This project comes to you at the request of Twitterer @GCcapitalM. I used to believe that a person could never have too many books, or too many bookmarks. Then I moved into an apartment slightly larger than some people’s closets (and much smaller than many people’s garages) and all these beliefs got turned on their naïeve little heads. But what a person can always look for more of is really cool unique bookmarks. Placeholders special enough for the books that are special enough to remain in your culled-out-of-spacial-necessity collection.
Page corner bookmarks are cute, practical and deeply under-represented in the world.* They’re easy to make, easy to customize, and will set you apart from all those same-same flat rectangular bookmarks. Corner bookmarks are where it’s at. If you like this tutorial, here are a couple others that might be up your alley. For the monster-loving adults in the room, try some googly-eyed paper monster wine charms. What you’ll need: Putting it all together:
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