I started to do a small run of notebooks following my process developed over the last weeks. These are the first 3 notebooks. A6 sized with fabric covered cover.
As an addition I made a 5x7 inch sketchbook with watercolor paper. Hopefully I can do some sketches on vacation in this one…
Having a few egg cartons laying around I made a small wreath.
The Dollar Store Crafts website has a way better wreath.
Here I present you how to make a recycled mini-notebook:
From a few pages of paper I had laying around and a bit of cardstock I made this 9x14cm notebook. The pages are sewn to a cover sheet, which is glued into the cardboard cover. On the cover I sew green lines and felt pieces and glued on buttons.
Last Saturday we went to a basket weaving course organized by the city. We had the whole day to work on three recycling projects.
4 milk cartons become a flat basket envelope:
12 pages of newspaper become a square basket with pointy edges…
… or a rectangular basket with even edges.
If you want to know more about the art of basket weaving with recycled material you can have a look at Lois Walpole’s blog.
Following the design of the coin purse earlier this week, I bound a 14 x 9 cm notebook.
Front:
Back:
The notebook has 40 pages.
Similar to the milk carton coin purse, I made this recycled coin purse.
The cardboard outside has a nice look in combination with the grommets and the black elastic band.
As you already know, I am the proud owner of an Android 10 inch tablet. Having the tablet on your lap or the table without support is not the best, as you don’t have the best position / viewing angle for reading or watching a movie. Instead of buying a plastic stand with exorbitant pricing I found the perfect tablet stand:
This ultramodern design stand has two configurations. The first one is for holding your tablet nearly upright. This works well for watching movies or using the tablet as a digital picture frame.
The second configuration is good for typing on the tablet.
Works in portrait mode as well!
Remember: You have seen it here first!
It’s time again to try out some recycling. How about making a billfold wallet. For this we use a heavy plastic packaging, like a cat food bag. Don’t forget to clean it thoroughly or you’ll hava a lot of cats following you…
Lets go. I cut 4 pieces of the bag.
Now I fold over one edge about 1 cm and sew it in place.
Now I laid 3 of the pieces over each other with about 1.5 cm offset. I have sewn them together down the middle.
Here I cut the sewn stack of rectangle back to the size of the original rectangles, laid it face to face with the 4th rectangle and sewn the sides and the bottom edge. Also I cut off the corners to make turning inside out easier.
Next I turned the wallet inside out.
This is the finished wallet.
Very similar to this, you can make a wallet out of oilcloth, like this:
In this project you can use fabric scraps and recycle cardboard boxes. Similar to the project over at flax & twine I used cereal boxes and print out letters to make the “ABC” as 5x5cm tiles.
On my mission of upcycling/recycling I came across the Nespresso coffee capsules.I collected some which I cleaned out and didn’t really know what to do with them.
Finally I integrated the capsule in these brooches which contain a material mixture of felt, wool and glass.
Hello there! I report in with another upcycling project. Out of the old t-shirt pile I am going to make today a no sew t-shirt scarf.
1. Lay the shirt flat out.
2. Cut off the bottom seem and the top part.
3. Cut the shirt into stripes about 1-2 cm in width. Leave the stripes connected on one side.
4. Stretch the strips. In my example some strips broke while doing this, because the shirt had side seams.
5. Wrap fabric strips around the region where you left the strips connected. You are done.
Another version could include stringing beads on stretched fabric strips like in the following picture.
