The only thing that Betz White’s Toadstool Rain Bucket Hat are missing is a pair of these clever recycled plastic bag rain boots. Louie Rigano of the RISD Waste for Life studio designed these as a sustainable product that could be made by cartoneros, impoverished folks living in Buenos Aires, Argentina, who make a living […]
By Jamie Marie Chan After I watched Becky Stern’s Ask Craft video about plying yarns, I was inspired to try plying some of my scrap commercial yarns together. Plying is simply twisting two or more single threads together, traditionally in the opposite direction from which they were spun. Plying puts more strength into a yarn, […]
I never pick up the phone books when they are distributed around my building anymore but if I had one, I would love to make this recycled phone book pen organizer by Chica and Jo. Wouldn’t it be fun to just cut apart a big o’ phone book? [via Twitter SisterDiane]
By Jessica Wilson When I was a kid we didn’t have pool noodles, we had boogie boards. While boogie boards were very cool in their own 1980s way, they were not nearly as versatile as the candy-colored pool noodle. There are all kinds of nifty things you can do with a pool noodle. You can […]
Do you have a blue bin? They make recycling SO easy. My twitter friend Joscie documents arrival of her blue bin with this great scrapbook page. I love that she uses a photo with nice depth of field and repetition to anchor this “green” spread with a blue color scheme. You can check out her […]
How to crochet your own 2-sided, reusable Swiffer covers using some scrap yarn from your stash.
Instructables user seamster writes: The initial goal of this project was to make a couple of bean bag-style pillow chairs stuffed with pieces of recycled foam. But when I began working on a cover for the first pillow chair, I realized it looked a heck of a lot like an enormous brassiere. So I did […]
