A craft blog: a click here takes you to tutorial list. My Leetle Bag. = zero-waste design = > Industrial design> Coach House Trust and Zero-waste Design Ten Green Modular Shelving Ten Green is a modular shelving system, constructed simply from local recyclates. The design stemmed from an ongoing collaboration with the Coach House Trust, a Glasgow-based charitable trust that runs all sorts of ecological schemes and occupational therapy workshops. The brief is to find re-uses for the large amount of material the Coach House Trust collects for recycling, thereby tightening the circle of material re-use, keeping it local, reducing environmental costs as well as generating revenue.
The shelving system is designed for very simple construction, appropriate to the Trust's facilities such that it could in the future be produced through one of their workshops. My yarn-holding coffee can cubbies! Well I know I said last week that my studio series would be this week, but I still haven’t been able to get in a good photoshoot of the whole room because there hasn’t been any freaking sunshine since last Thursday! Damn Portland, don’t you know it’s Spring already?! So, here is my coffee can cubbies yarn holder thing that I made, and I’ll probably do more studio posts spread out over the next couple weeks or something… The unit is made with 14 Trader Joe’s coffee cans, covered in faux bois contact paper, glued together with contact cement, then screwed into the wall… The idea came from a project in Readymade a few issues ago – they covered Pringles cans with contact paper, and made a desk organizer – it looked awesome!
I carefully cut pieces of contact paper to size, covered all the cans, then cemented them together – this was easier said than done. View from the bottom: And straight on, with my new Ikea magnet board underneath, yay orange! Storage Cube TUTORIAL, part two -- Binding! (find Part One of this tutorial HERE!) The method for binding the raw edges of your storage cube is basically the same as binding a quilt. I've actually tried a couple ways of binding these cubes, and this one seems to work the best. STEP ONE: Start with a SQUARE side up. Lay your binding along the edge of the square with the raw edges lined up. (I moved mine over so you could see how I layered it.) STEP TWO: Sew with 1/4" seam allowance, stopping 1/4" before the end of your cube. STEP THREE: Rotate your cube one turn counter-clockwise. STEP FOUR: You will now fold your binding down, once again lining up the raw edges with your square.
STEP FIVE: Backstitch until you are 1/4" from the edge, then sew forward again 1/4" shy of the next corner. Your cube should look like this! STEP SIX: Lay your cube so the binding is behind the raw edge of your cube, as shown. STEP SEVEN: Sew along the folded edge of your binding. Repeat Steps Six through Eight for the other side! Your cube is taking shape!! Everything in place playpen bag. Stella has grown big! Her palypen is going up into the attic, but we have to share this idea first.
This playpen bag is one of the most used items we´ve ever made. It´s great to have somewhere to store all the toys, to actually have room for the baby in the pen. Materials:Two different fabrics (If you like different lining of course)Bias for the edgeVelcro Pattern:Start measuring the size you like your bag. Right sides together sew the side and bottom seam. Sew over the corners and cut. Then to hang it: Measure the space between the bars on your pen, and cut four pieces as wide as the space and approx 25 cm long.