After making a handy crochet basket from t-shirt yarn last week I was itching to experiment with some homemade t-shirt yarn and made a Crochet Rag Rug from some old clothes that I had laying around. I took the opportunity to make a video of whole the process and included some instructions for changing yarn colours and how to do…
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In this day and age where it’s seems easier to just go out and buy new things rather than repairing what we already have, mending is becoming a lost art. With the rise of fast fashion and built in obsolescence, fixing what’s broken can seem unnecessary and in some cases, due to intentional design, physically impossible. But for many people,…
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Reuse your old plastic containers to make this attractive upcycled planter. It’s a great way to upcycle plastic plant pots or old food containers, and it also uses recycled scrap fabric as well! I’m always looking for nifty ways to use my recycled handmade scrap fabric twine and today I have a project that not only uses recycled fabric scraps,…
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I’m so happy to finally share this Vintage Saucer Chair Makeover with you. This is a project that I’ve been working on (on and off) for about a year, slowly chipping away whenever I had some spare time and now it’s done! This is less of a ‘how to’ and more of a ‘how I did it’ kind of post…
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Sometimes a craft idea hits me so quickly I need to drop whatever I’m doing and get started right away. This is what happened to me a couple of evenings ago whilst I was drinking a soda (it’s my only vice) and looking at my calendar. Here is how my brain works…”Valentine’s Day is coming up -> Hearts -> Metal…
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Finally the tutorial you’ve all been waiting for! I’ve been working on this coiled and crochet rug slowly for months and months; now that it’s finished I want to show you how to make your own. It’s a terrific way of using up lots of scrap fabric that is too worn out or stained for sewing projects, I’ve used old…
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You all know I like to Upcycle wherever I can. Re-using and transforming unwanted objects and materials is not a new concept, and finally it seems to be coming out of the fringes and into the main-stream as people are becoming conscious of reducing consumption. Now a new book by Rebecca Proctor, an expert on sustainable design, showcases projects from…
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My Upcycled Braided T-Shirt Rug tutorial is consistently one of the most viewed posts on the blog, but I often get comments or emails asking me to clarify the method for cutting the t-shirt into strips. I’ve made a short video that shows you how I do mine which should clarify the process. There are lots of different methods to…
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