Download the Pattern PDF | Subscribe in iTunes Get this pattern to sew up a cute kid-sized market bag with Kristin Roach of Craft Leftovers‘ pattern for Lainie’s Tote. Use up your fabric stash and tie it all together with some vintage buttons for decor.
Coco Knits has a tutorial for how to cut rags into knittable strips. You can also use new materials like plain and inexpensive muslin bed sheets from IKEA, like in the picture. via Craft & Found.
Spotted in the CRAFT Flickr pool: Here’s a tutorial by Maya from upstate New York for making party hats from newspaper and faux flowers! They look very festive and easy, great for a kid’s birthday party or just a summer picnic.
Spotted on Apartment Therapy Chicago: Artist Virgina Fleck takes re-use to a whole other level by creating these colorful mandalas from discarded plastic bags.
Michelle Stitzlein makes wall-mounted moth sculptures out of recycled materials that include license plates, car parts, mirrors, trash can lids, piano keys, bicycle tires, scrap wood, bottlecaps, aluminum siding, faucet handles, oil drum lids and phone hand sets. via Junk Mail Gems Blog.
CRAFT reader Marcela sent this one into us. She was inspired by our soda pull tab crochet project in CRAFT: 03 by the Escama designers and made this crochet pull tab top. Great work! From the pages of CRAFT: 03: “Pull-Tab Crochet,” by the designers of Escama, pgs 118-119. Preview the article now in our […]
From the CRAFT Flickr pool: user seschloss added a photo of her friend Josh’s shoes with custom made uppers (and recycled sneaker soles). He does a pretty thorough walkthrough of his process (ups and downs) on the Sewer Sewist blog, and even if the glue’s a bit funky around the edges, I still think these […]
