Cassette Wallet
Here’s a novel way to use the old cassette tapes you have around — sew them into a wallet! These casette wallets are designed by Marcella Foschi (Italy) and are for sale on designboom. Link.
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More Plastic Grocery Bag Projects and Inspiration
Read more on the the cool things made with plastic grocery bags in Christina Loff’s plastic bag roundup in her Craftwork column on SFist. It’s amazing to see all these creations made from simple plastic grocery bags. Pictured here is the Plastic Bag Chandelier by Dan Steinhilber. See more including our favorite 1950’s knit grocery […]
DIY Earring Holder Frame
Ooh! Check out this great way to hang your earrings with a cool display made by CuriousJayne. I love that the netting was a bag that held apples! Link.
Plastic Grocery Bags into Knit 1950’s Outift
Cathy Kasdan of Clevland, OH and I were emailing back and forth a bit yesterday afternoon regarding my post on the knitting machines. Then my jaw dropped when Cathy sent me this beautiful photo of her finished thesis project — a handknit 1950’s style ensemble made from plastic grocery bags. Cathy is currently finishing up […]
HOW TO – Make a Vinyl Pouch
Here’s a great recycle project from Super Naturale on how to make this vinyl pouch with images from old books (this one’s astronomy). Link.
Hand Spun Plastic Bag Yarn
Symeon of PippiKneeSocks has a post about how she spun plastic grocery bags along with some wooly nylonand thread into this fiber stash. Link.
Fashion-Incubator Contest: Redesign the Reusable Shopping Bag
For your eco-minded artists and crafters, Kathleen at Fashion-Incubator has “another dopey contest”, but this one is an important one. (Pictured above is a nylon shopping bag from reusablebags.com.) Kathleen writes: An article from this morning’s New York Times gives me the inspiration for a new design contest, that of recreating the humble reusable grocery […]
