Posts tagged: weaving
How to turn a t-shirt into yarn.
By DIY Maven
The Eloominator shows us how to turn old t-shirts into yarn. (Yup, that stuff picture above used to be a t-shirt!) She uses the resulting yarn on a Weave-It Rug Loom or 'any loom on which you can weave 4 ends per inch'. I could see using it to crochet rugs, however. Maybe a shower mat...To yarnify a tee of your own, here's what you'll need:
How to Weave Felt Placemats
By DIY Maven
Molly at The Purl Bee shares her technique on how to make woven felt placemats. The best part about this project....it requires NO SEWING! (Even sewers like those kinds of projects now and then!) To make a set of six placemats, you'll need the following:
Dreaming Spires Willow Playhouse
By DIY Maven.JPG)
We have an epidemic in this country. It is the pox of residential neighborhoods everywhere. Damn you plastic lawn toys! *Shaking my fist skyward* Judith Needham probably agrees with me, because when her daughter wanted a playhouse, the master weaver set to work and made one out of willow branches » READ MORE
DIY Woven Soda Can Tab Belt
By DIY Maven
This project was first featured in the August/September issue of Budget Living Magazine, (now defunct, as far as I can tell). At least one crafter was so smitten with it, she began saving up soda can tabs.
How to Weave a Basket out of Newspaper
By DIY Maven
Jeffery Rudell never ceases to amaze me. Today he shows us how to weave a basket out of newspapers. A cleverly ironic way to recycle newspapers that will store newspapers waiting to be recycled!! LOVE it!
What will you need to make one? These items:
Loom Flower Holiday Bows
By DIY Maven
Cathy over on Craftstylish has used her flower loom to embellish holiday packages, and the outcome is absolutely darling. She also offers a tutorial on how to loom the little buggers. If you're interested in this technique, you can actually make your own loom, like I did. And although Cathy's bows are much prettier than, say, bows made of old casette tape tape, they're not as tree-hugger-y. :)
Image courtesy of Cathy Callahan.
How to Turn Old Magazines into Woven Art
By DIY Maven
June over at lovely Folding Trees shares her incredibly easy yet effective method of using old magazines to weave beautiful note cards and book marks. June also suggests using the technique to make wall art, book covers and pen pots too!
Supplies you’ll need:
paper (glossy magazine pages and copy paper)
pencil
ruler
Xaxto knife
cutting mat
What you’ll need to do:
Click on over to Folding Trees to see the entire tutorial. Via Craftzine.
How to 'weave' a purse out of potato chip bags
By DIY Maven
Although Mylinda made this purse out of potato chip bags, you can also use cookie. Besides about 20 bags, you'll need a rotary cutter, a home-made 'needle' made out of a credit card (instructions are included in the post to make it), DMC embroidery floss or crochet thread and a zipper. For the complete process, visit Mylinda's post here.
How to turn old socks into groovy potholders.
By DIY Maven
Here’s a superb way to make use of leftover socks bereft of their mates: turn them into potholders! All you need is one of those old school potholder weaving looms and a bunch of lonely cotton socks cut into 1/4" thick loops. Jen at Re-nester bought her loom at a craft store, but she suggests you could make your own by nailing some brads spaced 1/4" apart into a scrap piece of wood that’s the size of an average potholder. For an explanation of th » READ MORE
How to Make Silk in 6 Steps
By DIY Maven
Designboom has a fascinating pictorial of the traditional silk making process of the craftspeople in a small village in north-east Tailand. Starting with silk worms, which aren't actually worms, and ending with luscious fabric, the photos illustrate the proceedure in 6 steps.
Step 1: Raising silkworms & harvesting cocoons.
Step 6: Ikat (binding » READ MORE
