DIY Upcycled Clothing for SUMMER!
When the weather gets hot, the hot get crafty! We’ve rounded up a few video tutorials on how to turn clothing castaways into sassy summer gear.
How To: Make a Pinwheel Brooch from Recycled Felt
Your stash of felt scraps is perfect for whipping up crafty accessories. Here’s how to make a pinwheel brooch using a couple of pieces of scrap felt and a vintage button.
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Five Projects to Craft Using Silk
Get re-introduced to silk as a natural material that’s easy to craft with!
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How-to: Dye Silk with Kool-aid to Make Washable Play Silks and Wearable Fabric
You’d be amazed at the ways that a child can find to play with such a simple toy, and with this method, you’ll be amazed at how easy it is to cheaply dye your play silks to make a rainbow of vibrant colors.
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Green Crafter: Alex Keller
Alex Keller is a jewelry redesigner who converts vintage jewelry and upcycles them into more modern vintage chic jewelry. Her love of vintage carries into her vintage shop where she sells vintage housewares. Let’s see if she has any tips on vintage shopping.
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How to Upcycle a Coffee Sack into a Fabric Box
Coffee sack burlap is a great sustainable material. It’s natural, biodegradable, and strong. Here is an easy tutorial on how to make a great shabby chic fabric box from an upcycled coffee sack.
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Fab Fabrics: Undyed Hemp Fabric
We got a note from a reader recently who is looking to switch to an eco-friendly option for her hand-dyed and printed fabrics. The trouble is, she couldn’t track down a source for undyed eco-fabrics.
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How To: Make a Peacock Fascinator from Scrap Felt
If you have felt scraps in a range of sizes, you can whip up this simple, sweet peacock fascinator! Peacock feathers are mega hip right now, but for vegan crafters, the real deal is off limits. Luckily, with some eco-fi felt and a little bit of crafty know-how, you can whip up a cruelty-free fascinator that’s just as lovely.
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How-to: Upcycled Chalkboard Blocks out of Regular Building Blocks
D.I.Y. chalkboard blocks are easy to paint, but the real thrill is in how many creative ways your kids will find to use them.
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Announcing the Winner of the Artterro Craft Kit Giveaway
Read on for the winner of the Artterro craft kit!
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Green Crafter: Peaces of Indigo
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, mining precious metals is one of the biggest environmental nightmares. Tons of toxic chemicals like cyanide and mercury are used to produce and refine precious metals. It is estimated that about 2.9 pounds of mercury is released for every 2.2 pounds of gold produced.
And with that in mind, Dawanna of Peaces of Indigo recycles silver, gold, and bronze to make jewelry.
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Finding Green Craft Inspiration
Do you ever feel like you are burnt out from green crafting? Or have you ever hit a dry spell with reusing and repurposing? I mean, how many different ways can you upcycle t-shirts? I’m sure you’ve had moments when you can not think of one more way to use up a scrap of fabric. So where do you find inspiration? How can you find the creativity to continue to craft reusing materials?
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4 Polyfill Alternatives for Sustainable Stuffing
Conventional polyfill is petroleum based, so what’s a green crafter to do? Here are some eco-friendlier options for stuffing that pillow or plushie!
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How-To: Make a Pillow Without Polyfill
Who says you need petroleum-based polyfill to stuff a pillow? Not me!
Giveaway: Win an Artterro Eco-Friendly Art and Craft Kit
Win your own Artterro Creative Art Kit!
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Review: Artterro Eco-Friendly Art and Craft Kits Plus Giveaway
Arterro art and craft kits for children are as eco-friendly as I could want them to be, but how did my own little craft snobs like them? Read on and see!
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How-to: Scrabble Drink Coaster
Did your P go under the sofa? Lose your S over a heated word debate? Do you have a Scrabble game sitting around that’s missing more than one letter tile? Well I have the perfect tutorial for you!
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Green Crafter: Fashion Green T-Bags
Green Crater Fashion Green T Bags make reusable grocery bags out of t-shirts on Etsy What a great way not to disposable plastic bags!
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How-to: Make Reusable Items From a Broken Tote Bag
A broken bag is upcycled to a fabulous fabric basket, lid handle holders, and coasters. Here’s how.
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DIY for Dad: Father’s Day Crafts
Father’s Day is just around the corner, and I’ve always found it hardest to create handmade gifts for the men in my life. Here are some projects to jumpstart your creativity this Father’s Day!
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How-to: Shorten a Pair of Pants
Not too long ago, I showed you a quick and dirty way to take in a too big tank top, but that’s not the only way you can use your sewing skills to alter thrifted treasures! Here’s how you can shorten a pair of thrifted pants in just a few simple steps.
How-to: Build a Bat House in Your Backyard
Bothered by mosquitoes? Build a bat house for your backyard, and solve your mosquito problem and a bat’s housing problem all at the same time.
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How-to: Stencil on Vinyl Record Albums to Create a Custom Upcycled Sign
If you have old vinyl record albums that no longer play, upcycle them into a stenciled sign to decorate your music room.
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Green Crafter: Twig & Leaf Botanicals
twig & leaf botanical is an uber eco-friendly herbal shop that sells organic, vegan herbal concoction on Etsy. How did she start her passion of making herbal remedies?
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Ten Tag Sale Tips
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure, as they say. Tag sales are great places to hunt for treasure (and recycle trash). But do you know how to maximize your time, hunting for treasure on a Saturday?
Three DIY Necktie Projects
Yesterday, we showed you how to add a little cute to a thrifted necktie with a felt applique, but what about the rest of the ties in your crafty stash? Don’t fret! We’ve got you covered with some super fun necktie crafts.
How-to: Fancy Up a Necktie with Applique
With Father’s Day and graduations coming up, a modded-out necktie is a perfect gift to have handy, and it’s easy as pie to dress up a thrifted necktie with a custom applique made from recycled felt! Since ties are pretty narrow, this is also a great project for felt scraps that you might have saved up.
A High-Quality Crayon Sharpener will Change the Way that Your Kids Color
If your kids prefer using markers (so much plastic!) to crayons, perhaps all they need is a really nice crayon sharpener to make it fun again.
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Five Upcycled Piñatas that You Can Make
Be the party hero with any one of these five piñata projects.
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Green Crafter: Debby Arem Designs
Debby Arem is the designer behind Debby Arem Designs. She is a perfectionist and fascinated by detail, texture and color. She creates unique ‘geekery’ jewelry and accessories for the home and office that are sometimes whimsical or abstract and sometimes purely decorative or quite functional.
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Recycle Fabric Scraps to Fabulous Fabric Flowers
Admit it. You have fabric scraps in every drawer or shelf in your sewing room. You meant well. You wanted to be green and not throw them away. You knew you can use them up in making ‘something’. But now you are wondering, “What do I do with them all?” Don’t worry. Fabric flowers to the rescue!
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Trashion on the Runway: Upcycled Fashion Inspiration
The University of Minnesota held its annual Trashion Fashion show in April, and it’s full of upcycling inspiration!
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How-to: Take in a Tank Top
One of the things that intimidates people about sewing is it seems like a very precise art. Of course, sewing can be that way, but not every project requires complete precision and control. In fact, there are lots of beginner sewing and mending projects that require a lot less skill than you might think! Taking in a too-big tank top is one of these.
Clay, Dough, and Wax: Five Natural Modeling Materials You Can Make Yourself
For a fun craft time without a lot of expense, check out these five kinds of natural modeling materials that you can make for yourself.
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How to Make Modeling Beeswax
If you love natural playthings, then you’ll love how easy it is to make your own modeling beeswax.
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It’s Flea Market Season
It’s flea market season, what will you be hunting for?
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