Loose Ends Completes Handmade Projects When Their Original Crafters Can’t
Loose Ends makes sure that handmade projects get to their intended recipients when their creators can no longer finish them.
Loose Ends makes sure that handmade projects get to their intended recipients when their creators can no longer finish them.
Here are some of my favorite free patterns from those indie companies! We’re starting big with tops and bottoms, ranging from easy basics to add to your wardrobe to fancier styles to dress you up nicely.
Animal rescues need YOU to do some crafting for good this summer!
Looking for something to make that will also make a difference?
Here are some handmade items that you can make and donate to your favorite animal rescue!
Wildlife rescues use fleece pouches to contain small and baby animals in a way that keeps them feeling safe and comfortable. It mimics the type of pouch that a marsupial animal will be familiar with, and recreates the feeling of a nest for other animals.
This upcycled cardboard cat scratcher is a great way to use up all your corrugated cardboard boxes. Cats love it, and it’s a useful donation to your local animal shelter.
But if you were one of the 800 members of the Auntie Sewing Squad, you helped make over 250,000 fabric masks to donate to 200 communities around the country, prioritizing the vulnerable communities that were the most affected by COVID-19 and the most disenfranchised from the political power bases that informed community response.
The manufacturing process for making cement at its current large scale is highly toxic, and is one of the worst things happening to the environment at the moment.
But alas, Shein is yet another imported fast fashion outlet, even more insidiously unsustainable than the other imported fast fashion outlets.
So if Shein is so unsustainable, why is it so popular, especially with young adults who should know better?
Bottle bricks are a way of both accepting the reality of plastic waste, and also using the physical fact of that waste for a specific purpose.
Vinyl as a product has been around for decades, and vinyl as a craft supply has been around for nearly as long. It’s the popularity and affordability of computerized die-cut machines, however, that has really brought craft vinyl into popularity. With a die-cut machine, it’s simple to create a perfect graphic from crafty vinyl, requiring only weeding and adhesion to make a complete product.
Resin crafts, unfortunately, are terrible for the planet.
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.
Done properly, and distributed carefully, seed bombs CAN work
You get a rock and you paint on it, Bro!
Looking for a crafty way to support a great cause?
Lori Guilderson, owner of Charlotte’s Friends, gives traditional dolls (think Bratz) a feminist makeover. Meet Lori and learn all about what inspires her!
Sooo…. backyard lumberjacking is a thing.
If you like to knit or crochet but don’t feel like you ever have the time to make a finished piece, so how can you possibly craft for charity, then I have the perfect organization for you.
Want to give traumatized or hospitalized children something secure and soft to cuddle? Check out Project Linus, which provides handmade quilts and blankets to children in need across the country.
And now you’re left wondering whether, after the trouble that you took to order them and the time and resources spent to package and mail them to you, you should actually plant them at all.
Cats and dogs deserve our crafty love, too, especially when they’re all alone in an animal shelter.
If you’re into fashion.
Bridge and Beyond is an organization that provides warm handmade goods for individuals experiencing homelessness in Central Ohio.
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.
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.
This fifth grader wants you to help send a girl to school. She launched a charitable crafty business to help young girls get the educations they deserve.
Do you love to knit and have lots of little pieces of surplus yarn to show for it?
The news reports always make it sound desperately exotic–Sleeping mats! Out of plastic bags!–but the truth is that it’s totally do-able.
They also print tote bags from utility grates, and gym bags from concrete!
I believe that you can teach children about the environment while keeping it positive and even making it fun! This book can help.
Help a bee out, why don’t you, by building your very own mason bee house?
Cambodia Knits empowers women to support their families through craft. We are thrilled to share this Q&A with founder Monika Nowaczyk!
Magda Sayeg was the founder of the yarn bombing movement, and in this fascinating talk, she dives into how her act of craftivism grew across the world.
Are there still sweatshops because the people who should be forcing companies to change are instead spending their time hitting the thrift stores, sewing their kids clothes using organic cotton, and buying boutique-style outfits off of etsy?