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June 24, 2009
How-To: Pantyhose Petals
Pantyhose Petals
Create delicate nylon flowers to dress up a wedding gown, veil, or centerpiece.
By Mary Beth Klatt
In the 1950s, women had to wear hosiery to the office or risk being fired. Naturally, these ladies ended up with a lot of ripped and snagged pantyhose. Although some tossed these ruined pairs, the crafty ones cooked up beautiful ways to reuse them. Many women ended up dyeing and cutting them up to create flowers for wedding veils, corsages, and hats.
Now those same flowers will set you back a small fortune on eBay, but you can re-create them for a fraction of the price, and get a vintage look that would be appropriate on Elizabeth Taylor in Father of the Bride.
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Posted by Goli Mohammadi |
Jun 24, 2009 01:00 PM
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Turn a Placemat into a Bib
Babies and kids are messy eaters so you can never have too many bibs around the house if you ask me. Iuvinthemommyhood shows you how to save some moolah and turn a placemat into a bib.
Posted by Natalie Zee Drieu |
Jun 24, 2009 12:00 PM
Babies, Kids, Refashion, Sewing |
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Core 77 + Nidecker Snowboard Design Competition
Everyone who knows me knows I'm always looking for an excuse to talk about snowboarding, yes, even in June. Designers, artists, crafters, here's a competition after my own heart. Core 77 design mag and Nidecker snowboard company are challenging designers to create the next generation of snowboard graphics. Designers can submit designs of any style or content, and participants have the entire topsheet of the board as their canvas. The top 5 designs will be applied to Nidecker snowboards and displayed at international tradeshow, along with profiles of the winning designers. The grand prize winner will receive a $2500 cash award, and their design will be included in the 2010/11 Nidecker line. The 4 runners up will each be produced in a limited edition run. All top 5 finalists will receive a Nidecker snowboard produced with their design, and the designer's name will be featured on the side of their board. Get more details and download the template here.
Posted by Goli Mohammadi |
Jun 24, 2009 10:11 AM
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Rainbow Jell-O
Rainbow Jell-O
By Katie Goodman
Themed snack and story-time activities are great ways to entertain kids during the summer months. What often starts out as glee — hurray summer, no more school! — can quickly turn to boredom if you don't have a lot of activities on your schedule.
Rainbow Jell-O is a fun snack that kids can help make. Due to the extra gelatin added, it doesn't take as long as traditional Jell-O to become solid.
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Posted by Natalie Zee Drieu |
Jun 24, 2009 10:00 AM
CRAFT Summer Camp, Food |
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How-To: Mini Lantern
Instructables user smh writes:
Here in Pakistan we suffer from frequent power outages that last hours. Since I'm a university student, I needed a portable source of light but I found that candles weren't bright enough. I came up with a simple mini lantern that takes less than 5 minutes to make but lasts for hours.
Posted by Becky Stern |
Jun 24, 2009 09:00 AM
Home and Garden |
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How-To: Wedding Veil
Chica and Jo have an in-depth tutorial on how to make your own wedding veil. (Thanks Kay!)
Posted by Natalie Zee Drieu |
Jun 24, 2009 08:00 AM
Sewing, Weddings |
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Jenny Hart Embroidery Class at HomeEc in Los Angeles
Sublime Stitching founder, Jenny Hart, will be teaching a small embroidery class at Home Ec. in Los Angeles next month. One of my first embroidery learning experiences was in a similar class with Jenny a few years ago, and I left completely inspired and obsessed with stitching. It's a great opportunity to learn hand embroidery!
Posted by Rachel Hobson |
Jun 24, 2009 07:00 AM
Classes, Needlearts |
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Pyrotechnics Art
Rosemarie Fiore makes a different kind of fire art. She uses controlled detonations of fireworks on paper to disperse bursts of saturated color. Her recent work is entitled Pyrotechnics Firework Drawings 2009, and Rosemarie explains her process:
I bomb blank sheets of paper with different fireworks including color smoke bombs, jumping jacks, monster balls, fountains, magic whips, spinning carnations, ground blooms, rings of fire, and lasers. As I work, I create imagery by controlling the chaotic nature of the explosions in upside-down containers.When the paper becomes saturated in color, dark and burned, I take it back to my studio and collage blank paper circles onto the image to establish new planes and open up the composition. I then continue to bomb the pieces. These actions are repeated a number of times. The final works contain many layers of collaged explosions and are thick and heavy.
She's also made art with a lawnmower, a car windshield wiper, a pinball machine, and a waffle iron.
Posted by Shawn Connally |
Jun 23, 2009 06:00 PM
Arts |
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Flashback: DIY Coloring Book
With summer vacations, trips, and occasions either being planned or in full force as we speak, you're sure to end up with an external hard drive's worth of images from your adventures. There are certainly no shortage of crafty ways to display and showcase those money shots, and one super fun way is by making your own custom coloring book with a batch of images. This week's flashback feature comes from CRAFT Volume 06, the Play issue. "Color Your World" by Summer Block Kumar shows you how to make coloring books with your images in 7 easy steps. All you need is a computer (I know you have that one!), Adobe Photoshop software, digital photos of your choosing, a color printer, acid-free heavy-stock paper, a binding machine (or check out the plethora of binding DIYs online), and crayons or colored pencils. And besides the coolness factor, they make great souvenir gifts.
Check out the full tutorial here in our Digital Edition and start sifting through your pics.
You can also still get the feel of a back issue of Volume 06 in your hands by heading to the Maker Shed. Our 30 fun-packed projects include mix and match monsters, a flashy LED hula hoop, super cute Japanese "otedama" juggling toys, a thumb piano from found objects, a reversible wrap-around skirt, solar jewelry, fig wine, a tablecloth skirt, and cardboard chairs … and that's not even the half of it!
Posted by Goli Mohammadi |
Jun 23, 2009 05:00 PM
Paper Crafts, Photography |
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Inflatables as Plush Starters
Artist Mindy Sue Meyers figured out a way to curb her excessive use of fiberfill when making plushies by starting with inflatable pool toys. For her purposes, a kids' tube was a perfect base for this giant doughnut.
Posted by Becky Stern |
Jun 23, 2009 04:00 PM
Amigurumi and Toys, Fiber Art |
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How-To: Make Cut Apart Felt Food
The American Felt and Craft blog has a tutorial and patterns for making felt food that can be cut apart and put back together again, a fun activity for children who want to practice cooking skills in a safe way.
Posted by Rachel Hobson |
Jun 23, 2009 03:00 PM
Kids, Sewing |
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How-To: Make Your Own Deodorant
To follow up her tutorial on DIY shampoo, Sarah James comes back at us with this easy recipe for making your own deodorant.
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Posted by Becky Stern |
Jun 23, 2009 02:00 PM
Homemade |
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How-To Tuesdays: Fabric Scrap Necklace
At my shop, we save pretty much every bit of scrap fabric. We can always find a use for it, whether it's for practice stitching by Sewing 101 students, as furoshiki-style wrapping, or to tie up half-yard cuts of fabric. I've seen a lot of fun fabric jewelry on craft blogs lately, and with so much scrap fabric on hand, I figured it was high time I tried my hand at it. Here's what I came up with.
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Posted by Jenny Ryan |
Jun 23, 2009 01:00 PM
CRAFT Projects, Fabric, Fashion, Jewelry |
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DIY Monogram Stationery
Sarah Hodsdon re-gifted me a Cricut at Maker Faire last month and I'm excited to test it out sometime soon. Mrs. Penguin on Weddingbee has a great tutorial on how to create your own monogram stationery using the Cricut Expression -- a great way to DIY your own Save the Dates, invitations, thank you cards, and more. She's also got a video of the process along with her step-by-step tutorial.
Coming up next week with our DIY Wedding month, you'll learn how to create your own wedding logo!
Update: Since posting this I came across a review of the Cricut by Patricia of A Little Hut. Read Part 1 and Part 2 here.
Posted by Natalie Zee Drieu |
Jun 23, 2009 11:00 AM
Paper Crafts, Weddings |
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Moonstitches' Craft Room
Take a beautiful trip to Japan and get a glimpse of Moonstitches' craft room in this inspirational post filled with lots of great pictures. My favorite has to be the old drawers Alex found on the street to hold her crafting tools and notions.
Posted by Natalie Zee Drieu |
Jun 23, 2009 10:00 AM
Craft Rooms |
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Antique Bottle Collecting
Gareth @ MAKE writes:
Antique bottles have always fascinated me. Here's an amazing site with pretty much everything you need to know about identifying and dating "historic bottles." The site is maintained by the Bureau of Land Management.
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HOW TO - Make a Sea Glass Necklace
Posted by Becky Stern |
Jun 23, 2009 08:58 AM
Vintage |
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Corsage Shirt Tutorial
Ruffled and ornate necklines are in this summer and I'm loving the corsage shirt tutorial by Kate of Curiositys on Cumbersome. It's a perfect quick craft and fashion pick-me-up to add to an existing t-shirt or tank top. [ via Whip Up ]
Posted by Natalie Zee Drieu |
Jun 23, 2009 08:00 AM
Fashion, Sewing |
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How-To: Make a Set of Quilted Nesting Boxes
Elizabeth from Oh, Fransson! has a new tutorial up on Sew, Mama, Sew! for making these cute quilted nesting boxes.
In order to make the blocks sturdy enough to hold their shape and be stacked, several types of interfacing are used. Don't let that scare you off though! The blocks are constructed in such a way that it isn't necessary to sew through any thick layers.
Posted by Rachel Hobson |
Jun 23, 2009 07:00 AM
Quilting |
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How-To: Make an Herb Garden from Recycled Plastic Bottles
Yiddlenet shows you how to make an herb garden from recycled plastic bottles.
From the site:
Lately I’ve been drinking SoBe Lifewater 0 Calorie after my workouts. It comes in these really cool spiral shaped bottles. The bottles are really sturdy and I’ve been trying to figure out what (other than recycling) I could do with them. I thought the first thing I’d try was an herb garden.I live in a townhouse, and I don’t have a lot of yard. What I do have is really really shady, so I can’t get much to grow back there. I do love using fresh herbs, so this was a good solution for me.
Posted by Natalie Zee Drieu |
Jun 22, 2009 05:00 PM
Gardening, Recycle |
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Needlepoint Space Invader Magnets
This would keep me from ever getting a meal prepared, because all I'd want to do is play Space Invaders on my fridge. Needlepoint Space Invader fridge magnets, via BBG.
Posted by Becky Stern |
Jun 22, 2009 04:00 PM
Needlearts |
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