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50 Recycled T-Shirt Tutorials

50 Recycled T-Shirt Tutorials

Delightful Busy Bees – Days Of The Week Set This month’s vintage pattern freebie is from the 1940s or 1950s and has a sweet embroidery design for every day of the week (7 in total) with each featuring a charming “bee” couple performing a certain task for the day. Each motif has a wise piece of advice or goal such as “Thrifty”, “Tidy”, “Tasty”, etc., and are intended to be used on dish towels. You’ll also find three additional designs that are suitable for pot holders (does not include directions for making the pot holders). The free file downloads are found at the bottom of the page but first, here are the original pattern details… These busy little bees will make any housewife smile–one for each day of the week and amusing pot holders to match. They’ll make a big hit as a shower gift–and in your own kitchen everyone from Junior to Grandma will “Bee glad” to help wipe the dishes! Colors: The modern housewife likes a cheerful kitchen and these busy bees will blend with any chosen color scheme. Click To View Larger Size

Recycle Tutorial - Making Of T-Shirt Yarn Recycle TutorialTools & Materials: 1. T-shirts (those without side-seam) 2. A pair of sharp scissors Place the T-shirt flat on the floor or working table. We only need the bottom-halve portion of the T-shirt. Fold the T-shirt from side to side, leaving an inch allowance as shown. Cut into strips as shown, remember not to cut the 1 inch allowance. Finish cutting the T-shirt from top to bottom evenly. Unfold the 1 inch allowance and it will look as shown below. The next process is to make a slant cut from strip 1 to strip 2, strip 2 to strip 3 and so on in order to create a continuous strip for the whole T-shirt. I purposely leave the first strip uncut until I have finished all. Now, I have a loooooooong strip of continuous T-shirt yarn waiting for the next process. Next is to turn the strip into a tubular yarn. See, the strip will curl and form a tubular shape after the tug. The strip has now turned into tubular yarn, from Fettuccine to Spaghetti ***wink***.

Nutella 'n Toffee Frozen Banana Bites | TheUnderCoverCook.com There is a tree on the edge of my house that has bugged me since I moved in. It is planted too close to the house and it goes dormant (and therefore looks dead) for half the year. But then this spring it popped out with big beautiful leaves and I decided maybe it wasn’t so bad….that is until the pod appeared. About 2 weeks ago the tree sprouted a giant purplish pod almost as big as my head. It looked like something aliens would pop out of and I eyed it suspiciously. After a few days the first purple petal peeled off and instead of aliens, tiny little bananas popped out! Even though my little bananas are still too green to eat, I have bananas on the brain today. After reading the recipe I decided to tweak it a little bit. These Frozen Banana Bites are very easy to make, but here are a few tips to make things go even smoother. So there you have it. Nutella ‘n Toffee Frozen Banana Bites Prep time: 15 minutes + freezing time Slice bananas into 1 inch slices and stab with a toothpick.

Little Susan Days-Of-The-Week Motifs {1950s Here’s a pattern set from the 1950s for this month’s vintage pattern freebie, it’s reminiscent of “Sunbonnet Sue” featuring a young girl wearing a bonnet doing chores around the house. She also has a little friend tagging alongside her while she runs about, a sweet little Scotty dog. Pattern Cover – Click To View Larger Size There’s a different motif for each day of the week as well as one that is suitable for embellishing an apron and four little square designs to use on potholders. You’ll find the files at the bottom of this page (each in jpg format) but first, here are the original details from the back of the pattern envelope… Little Susan happily dashes through each day’s chores as easily as you embroider. There are four cute motifs to use on pot holders or kitchen mitts and an extra Little Susan to put on an apron or cloth. A delightful quilt can be made for a little girl by using the “day” motifs alternately with a plain color block. Suggested Materials:

Recycle Tutorial - Making Of T-Shirt Yarn Another tutorial to help save our Mother Earth by turning unwanted items into something useful. This is the yarn ball I made out of an old T-shirt which I have been wearing for 10 years day-in day-out, wash-in wash-out. It finally broke down and tore at the collar and sleeves. Waste not, want not, I decided to recycle it. I have finished making the drawstring bag as shown above. {CLICK HERE to get the Recycle Tutorial – Making Of T-Shirt Yarn.} Pages: 1 2 Print / Download PDF

Cacti | The Lovely Plants - Part 2 I am a big fan of miniature gardens. They allow you a lot of freedom in a very limited space to grow your gardens the way you want – Japanese tea garden, a traditional Italian garden, a mini succulent garden or whatever creative or unusual you can imagine. Being a lover of cacti and succulents, I have compiled a list of unusual plants that I am going to use in my next miniature succulent garden experiment. These plants are unusual as well as slow growing, so they can live together for quite a long time. Epithelantha Micromeris (Button Cactus) Epithelantha is a really slow growing, miniature succulent. Epithelantha Micromeris (Button Cactus), Image from www.drogen.bz Lithops (Living Stones) You would hardly find these unusual plants visible in their habitat because of their unusual formation and colors that make them look like pebbles. Lithops (Living Stones), Image from lithops.net Fenestraria (Baby Toes) Fenestraria Rhopalophylla (Baby Toes), Image from wikipedia.org Crassula

Puppy Days of the Week: {Cross Stitch & Embroidery Home / Crafts / Puppy Days of the Week: {Cross Stitch & Embroidery} Vintage Puppy Pattern Series Here’s the latest set of Days of the Week (DOW) free vintage embroidery and cross stitch patterns. This is a cute puppy series from Laura Wheeler circa 1960s (I believe), each day features a puppy doing a daily chore. Here are the details and instructions: This pattern contains directions and 7 cross-stitch motifs to be used on towels or dinette cloths. Material Requirements Towels: 3/4 yard 36″ fabric or 1-1/2 yards finished toweling for 2. Dinette Cloths: 1-1/2 yards 54″ fabric for a 52″ x 52″ cloth or 2 yards 54″ fabric for a 52″ x 70″ cloth. For All: Six-strand embroidery cotton; sewing thread. Color Suggestions Placing Motifs Center a motif at one end about 1″ above hem. Cut away lettering before placing and stamping motifs. Free Downloads Directions: Click on image to access larger pattern (jpg file format), right click and then save to your desktop. Embroidery Finishing:

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!

STICKY SITUATION photos + design by Kristin Ess It’s really hard to get clean lines when it comes to putting stripes on manicures. I’m going to share a little DIY secret– nail polish on scotch tape. You’ll need polish, scissors + scotch tape.Apply polish to your tape. When you’re done, apply them to a pre-polished nail with the sticky side down. Tags: DIY, do it yourself, geometric, how to, kristin ess, mani, mani monday, manicure, nail, neon, stickers, the beauty department, thebeautydepartment.com Related posts: Scottie Dog Days of the Week: {Cross Stitch & Embroidery Here’s the latest vintage cross stitch and embroidery set from my personal collection, it features a lively scottish terrier character for each day of the week…use for kitchen towels or whatever else you like. The details and individual downloads are available below, I hope you like them! Playful Scottie Dogs Vintage Scottie Dog Pattern Set This pattern contains motifs to be worked in the simplest of embroidery stitches to be used on kitchen towels or other kitchen linens. Material Requirements: One Towel: 1 yard of 16 or 18 inch materialSix strand cotton in each color to be used. Transferring Pattern: Hem each towel end. Embroidery: Follow Color Suggestions and work crosses, cross stitch; continuous lines, outline stitch; single lines, single stitch; broken lines, running stitch. Instructions For Stitches - Click To View Larger Size Directions: Click on image to access larger pattern (jpg file format), right click on it then save to your desktop. Also check out this playful puppy set here.

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The Wealth of Nations - Book 1 : Adam Smith it all started with paint: fabric flower ‘how to’ I have a new obsession to add to my growing list of obsessions … Numbers – check Hooks – check Board & Batten – check Drop Cloth as Fabric – check And now fabric flower rosettes … … check. I can’t get enough of them and will sew them onto anything that stands still. And on my present pillows here … I sewed them onto my daughter’s plain white school shirts … … and even made a giant one and put it on a pillow … In preparation for tomorrow’s post, I’ve been busy making these little rosettes. And be sure to check back tomorrow to find out how I’ll put them to use this time around … Linking up:

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