Is Cassette Tape Knitting Safe?
We got a great reader question about cassette tape knitting that I’ve been researching. Let’s take a look at how safe it is to craft with the tape part of old cassettes.
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Tools + Supplies
How to Break Down Jeans for Crafting and Storage
There are a lot of uses for old blue jeans, but rarely for every single part of the jean. If you know what you like to make (quilts for me, purses and skirts for you, perhaps?), then you’ll find that you can make your old blue jean storage much more neat and efficient, as well as space saving, by cutting the jeans up very carefully, just so, and storing them in their parts.
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Broken Coffee Mug Planters (and How to Propagate Rosemary)
Store-bought plastic plant pots offend me for some reason.
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Finding Green Craft Supplies When You Need to Buy New
Need to find green craft supplies? This is a list of eco-alternatives to many common conventional craft supplies.
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Green Guilt: That time I got confused and didn’t buy water-based spray paint.
We all get misled or confused sometimes when we’re buying craft supplies. When that happens, it’s easy to give in to green guilt and kick yourself. This is the story of the time that I tried to buy some Krylon H2O to review and accidentally bought plain old stinky spray paint.
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15 Amazing Cardboard Crafts
Got a stash of corrugated cardboard boxes? We’ve got your crafty inspiration right here! Check out these 15 cool cardboard crafts.
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Spotted: Make Fabric Scrap Twine
Is your stash of fabric scraps getting a little bit out of control? Turn them into beautiful homemade fabric scrap twine!
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Decorative Egg Cozies from So Jane
The Decorative Egg Cozies project uses scrap fabric and simple applique techniques to create a portable little warmer for the soft-boiled egg, a popular Victorian-era breakfast.
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Natural Dyes for Fabric: Create a Natural Rainbow of Color!
Do you want to try natural dyes for fabric but aren’t sure how to get the colors that you want? Here’s a list of natural dyes by color for easy reference.
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Spotted: How to Dye Fabric with Tea
Got some plain fabric handy? Check out how to dye fabric with tea for a natural, earthy look.
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Kids Can Upcycle!: 15 Upcycling Projects for Kids
Kids love to make their own toys, and when they upcycle those toys from stuff that you’d otherwise put in the trash or the recycling bin, then they’re not only having fun and saving money, but also learning valuable lessons about eco-friendly creativity.
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How to Grow Microgreens in Plastic Salad Containers
I eat a lot of grocery store salad throughout the winter, but I don’t stress about those awful plastic salad containers.
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20 Upcycled Bookshelf Tutorials
Need a new bookshelf? IKEA is NOT the answer.
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Solving The Printables Dilemma
I love printables as much as the next gal. How can we make our printing as eco-friendly as our crafting?
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GOTS: The Key to Truly Sustainable Organic Cotton
Organic cotton is much better for the planet and the people, and GOTS certification can help you be sure you’re getting the most sustainable organic cotton available.
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15 Awesome Junk Mail Crafts
Are you sick of the junk mail stuffed into your postbox? If you can’t get the flow of junk to stop, try out some of these junk mail crafts!
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Homemade Laundry Soap Recipe–It’s a Money-Saver!
We ALL have laundry to do (right now, probably…), but conventional store-bought laundry detergent, with its petrochemicals, optical brighteners, and synthetic fragrances, isn’t great for the environment OR your skin. And the super-fancy natural stuff? Well, it’s out of *my* price range, for the most part.
Instead, I rely on my homemade laundry soap. It’s easy to make, the ingredients cost pennies per load (about three, give or take a penny), and it’s much healthier for your body and the environment than most store-bought laundry detergents.
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34 Awesome T-Shirt Crafts
Grab a tee from your closet or the thrift store, and let’s make some t-shirt crafts!
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24 Water Bottle Crafts
Keep some plastic out of the landfill with these water bottle crafts!
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Kids Can Sew with Felt and Embroidery Floss
Got a kid who’s eager to learn to sew, but you don’t have the skills to teach them?
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Why I Don’t Craft with Leather
Leather crafts are super hip right now, and as a vegan crafter, that bums me out. I’m probably going to take some flack for speaking up about leather, but the poor animals who suffer because of the leather industry can’t speak for themselves.
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Hemp Legalization in Colorado!
March 1, 2014 is going to be a great day for sustainable fabrics when hemp legalization becomes official in Colorado!
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Holiday Crafts: The 2013 Upcycled CD Wish List Ornament (with Free Printable Template!)
Want a way to preserve the memory of what your child wants most for Christmas this year?
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Holiday Crafts: Filled Christmas Ornaments
Got some teeny-tiny treasures?
Some scrap craft supplies?
How about just some of the colored sand or rice or pony beads that your kids play with?
If you do (and you totally do!), then you’ve got almost all the makings for an easy, special, stash-busting Christmas ornament craft.
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Food Safe Fabric for Sandwich Bags: A Follow Up!
Have you been hunting for food safe fabric to make DIY snack bags? I found a solution for you!
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Clothing + Fashion: How to Shorten Bra Straps
I’m really short, y’all.
And I have really big breasts.
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Hemp Craft Supplies from Hemptique: Review and Giveaway!
The awesome folks at Hemptique sent me some of their sustainable hemp products to craft with, and they’re generously offering up a prize pack to one Crafting a Green World reader!
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Paper Crafts: Choosing Eco-Friendly Paper and Embellishments
Are scrap booking and other paper crafts your thing? Here are some recycled and reclaimed supplies for all of your paper projects!
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Craftivism: Talking Human Rights for Blog Action Day
Craftivism is about more than using your crafts to make a difference. Let’s take a look at the link between craft supplies and human rights.
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Knitting and Crochet: Finding (and making!) Eco-Friendly Yarn
Do you love knitting or crochet? You can make or buy beautiful yarns that are also good for the planet!
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Sewing: 8 Eco-Friendly Fabric Companies for Your Sewing Projects
Finding the right sustainable fabric for your next sewing project now is easy as pie! Check out these beautiful options.
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5 Unusual Sources for Green Craft Supplies
Looking for green craft supplies and getting a little bit bummed that the big box offerings aren’t as eco-friendly as you’d like? Sometimes you have to look in less conventional places!
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Book Page Prints into Greeting Cards from Spooky and Bright
How to make your own greeting cards that aren’t super cutesy and twee?
Include something vintage!
I made these DIY greeting cards not with rubber stamps of teddy bears or foam stickers of ducks in bonnets, but with vintage book pages. Pages trimmed from a ratty, torn copy of The Turn of the Screw and an old dictionary, embellished with paint, compose the front images of a set of all-purpose blank cards, suitable for either the kids or the adults in the family to use.
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Crafty Book Review: Mason Jar Crafts, by Lauren Elise Donaldson
Mason jars aren’t just for canning!
But perhaps you knew that already? Perhaps you, too, drink frosty beverages out of your Mason jars, or fill them with water and wildflowers and plop them in the center of your table? Perhaps you decorate their lids and store buttons in them?
Perhaps you sometimes get a little crafty with them, hmm?
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How-to: Painted Stones
Stones are completely beautiful in themselves, but sometimes you just feel in your heart that you need something with a little more color.
And that’s okay! Maybe sometimes a plain old grey stone WANTS to be painted, you know?
5 Recycled Felt Craft Projects
Got some recycled felt in your stash? We have some project ideas for you!