I love this crochet bag pattern by Lauren Irving on Crochet Me which is refashioned from her old “sack dress”. There’s some great details on how to make your strips of fabric “yarn” and how you connect them together. Link.
Dutch designer Tejo Remy has designed and constructed these eye-catching benches made up of tennis balls at Rotterdam’s Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. A great alternative to those hard cold benches usually in museums! But why not try your hand at making something like a stool for your home?[ via ] Link.
I love it when crafters take things in their own hands to make stuff for a good cause. Take Susan of joybucket who is making these reusable grocery bags out of old rice bags. Susan writes: The idea is to take empty 50lb rice bags that restaurants use and sew them into reusable grocery bags. […]
Betz White took an old pair of jeans and refashioned it into the cutest craft apron complete with pink rick-rack and beautiful applique. Link.
This beautiful fused plastic bag tote complete with octopus design is made by Betz White who’s been doing some amazing experiments with plastic grocery bag fusing. Thanks to Ansley’s post I was reminded that I hadn’t posted it up yet! It’s been fun to see the progress Betz has been making and TreeHugger has taken […]
Verybigjen on Flickr has a photo-tutorial on flickr on how to make these stunningly creepy bottlecap eyeball pincushions. [ via ] Link.
On SFist Christina’s got a new Craftwork post up, this time showing you a great way to recycle last month’s Muni fast passes (or any other bus pass), by turning them into very stylish earrings! This is the first in a series of craft projects where Christina will show you what you can make from […]
