Tied Up in Knots About Recycling?

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Recycling or reusing old materials is one of the best (and cheapest) ways to get eco with your crafting. There are loads of ways to do this but it’s solutions like these that really grab my attention. What I love about these new uses for old neckties is that the objects they have been made [...]

Yearn-Worthy Yarns: Kollage

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Pop corn, corn on the cob, creamed corn, corn chips, corn flakes … and yarn? Admittedly, when I think of the hearty, diverse vegetable we know as corn (maize to the Native Americans who received the seeds from tribes in what is now Mexico), I don’t usually think of making sweaters and purses. Alabama-based Kollage [...]

Recycled Silk Flower Pin: Perfect for the Green Bride

Wedding season is always in season but a lot of couples get married in spring and summer. As a bride I looked high and low to find a modern hairpiece instead of a traditional veil. Foundling’s shop on Etsy features a recycled silk pin with glass beads that can double as a hair piece. Each [...]

Accessorize with Lawn Furniture

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This is, admittedly, not my favorite time of year. Here in St. Louis, we get teased with a day or two of sunny, balmy weather, only to be blasted by some arctic front of snow, ice and bone chilling wind mere hours later. I’m brought nearly to my wits end with the absence of green [...]

Green Crafty Q&A: Weaving Plastic Bags

The Crafting A Green World Q&A series returns for its second installment – this time fueled by one of our long-time readers, Tamara. Q: Help! I am looking for a place that will show me how to basket weave plastic bags that does not require me to know how to knit or crochet. – Tamara [...]