10 Retro Halloween Decorations You Can DIY
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20 Eco-Friendly Friendship Bracelets
Instead, check out my favorite eco-friendly friendship bracelet tutorials, below. All of these tutorials are free offerings by indie artists and crafters. Using green materials like cotton embroidery floss, natural embellishments like wood or shells, and glass or porcelain beads, these tutorials result in friendship bracelets that Taylor Swift AND the planet would love!
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This DIY Braiding Wheel Makes the Best Friendship Bracelets
I’ve heard this nifty little braiding tool called both a Kumihimo Disk and a Trollen Wheel, but I most often refer to it around the kids I work with as a Friendship Bracelet Maker.
That’s because whatever you call it, this braiding wheel makes the BEST friendship bracelets!
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Free Patterns from Indie Pattern Companies: Underwear and Accessories
Everything on this list is from one of my favorite indie pattern companies. The patterns I’m pointing you to are free, but I’ve also included plenty of suggestions for other patterns you can purchase from these companies. It’s important to show these indie companies some love!
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18 Projects to Upcycle Tights
Fortunately, those stained, snagged, or simply outgrown tights don’t have to go into the wastestream! Here’s how to upcycle your old tights in a myriad of ways.
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20 DIY Hair Accessories to Make from Materials You Already Own
And homemade hair accessories, especially when they’re crafted from the scraps and stash of your craft supplies, or upcycled from other items, are an easy, fun way to add some personality to your wardrobe.
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Upcycled Hair Accessories: Stashbust a Scrunchie
Scrunchies are one of my favorite stashbuster projects. Like the other projects that I mentioned, scrunchies are very forgiving, so you can fudge fabric dimensions as needed to fit your scraps.
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DIY Dancer: Upcycled Hair Ties Made from Tights
If you, too, are beholden to a continually evolving set of brand-new tights all year, every year, this little hack won’t cure your heartbreak, but it might make you feel maybe 3% better, at least if you or someone you love also has hair that occasionally needs to be tied back.
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The Upcycled Home: Eighteen Wicker Basket Makeovers
Don’t let a wicker basket’s unfortunate appearance blind you to how versatile it can be for containing and organizing your clutter in an attractive way. Read on for a selection of easy tutorials that remake, remodel, and otherwise transform any ugly wicker basket into the perfect home accessory.
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How to Make a Broken Dish Pendant
It’s easier than you think to cut ceramics with a couple of standard tools, and there are loads of ways to finish off the pendant to your taste.
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15 Ways to Upcycle a Drawstring Backpack
It’s shiny!
It’s free!
It’s environmentally unfriendly!
What it is?
It’s a drawstring backpack!
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30 Free Messenger Bag Patterns and Tutorials
Are you a messenger bag person or a backpack person?
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Twenty Burlap Flowers You Can Make
Burlap flowers look really cool!
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20 DIY Cloth Masks
If you’re just getting started on creating your own cloth masks, or if you’re looking to switch up your go-to pattern–or add a handy accessory, OR make a matching cloth mask for a kid’s teddy bear!–then check out this list of my favorite DIY cloth mask patterns and tutorials.
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30 DIY Kanzashi Style Flowers And Ornaments
If you’ve got some ribbon scraps in your stash (bonus points if they’re silk), then you, too, can try out kanzashi-style ornaments!
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How To Add A Zippered Top To A Tote Bag
Because you don’t want your stuff to fall out!
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How to Make a Hoop Skirt: 15 Projects
Do you want to look like Queen Elizabeth I or Marie Antoinette?
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15 DIY Fox Masks For Cosplay And Dress-Up
If you, too, love foxes so much that one could eat somebody you love and you’d still forgive it, then I have your next Halloween project. Or convention cosplay. Or, you know, just dress-up outfit–I’m not here to judge you.
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I Made A Jewelry Organizer From A Vintage BINGO Game
I turned the vintage BINGO board into a jewelry organizer. It was a quick and easy project and it turned out great.
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25 Completely Free Vest Patterns and Tutorials
A vest is one of the easiest and most accessible clothing items to sew.
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28 Free Bead Loom Patterns
Want to make something beautiful on a bead loom but you don’t quite know where to begin?
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13 DIY Ways to Display Patches
If you’ve got a fun collection of patches, you don’t have to a) hide it away in a drawer, or b) pay a professional framer to display it for you.
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How To Sew a Patch
Go get all those band patches back on your denim jacket where they belong!
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18 DIY Tutus For Babies To Adults
A DIY tutu is one of the easiest ways to make an outfit look fancy.
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13 Ways to Upcycle Eyeglass Cases
Find a project to excite and inspire you, and you’ll be happy to keep your eyeglass case out of the waste stream and make a new, useful second life for it.
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Three Dozen Free Knit Hat Patterns
A knit hat is a great knitting project, whether you’re a beginning knitter or a seasoned professional, because there is a knit hat pattern to suit everybody.
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Four Dozen Eco-Friendly Felt Crafts
Whichever kind of felt you prefer, you can settle happily into any of the felt crafts below, knowing that whatever you make, it will be a great choice for the environment
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30 Free Apron Patterns and Tutorials
You should probably be wearing an apron.
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How to Sew a Pompadour
Madame de Pompadour lent her name not just to the bouffant hairstyle, but also to the practical yet lovely little drawstring wrist bags that allowed one to both wear a fancy ballgown (with no room for pockets!) and carry a lipstick and some cash for gambling with.
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Craft for Good with Bridge and Beyond
Bridge and Beyond is an organization that provides warm handmade goods for individuals experiencing homelessness in Central Ohio.
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Craftivism: The Pussyhat Project
Marchers and supporters for the Women’s March on Washington, D.C., on January 21, 2017, have inspired an international craftivist movement called The Pussyhat Project.
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Craft for Good with Halos of Hope
Your friends and family have enough hats by now. Make your next one for Halos of Hope, an organization that puts handmade hats on the heads of cancer patients.
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How to Repair a Child’s Ballet Shoe
Here’s how to repair a child’s ballet shoe, the quick and easy way. You can even teach your kid to do this herself, so she can fix her own ballet shoe next time it breaks.
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