fashion and clothing: Agatha Ruiz de la Prada blog---“Waist Down – Skirts by Miuccia Prada"---Jun Takahashi--ramblings on kimono---Patchwork is very well-known as a traditional technique to stitch small pieces of fabric together to create a larger textile, often a quilt, but sometimes items of clothing such as skirts, or household furnishings, such as tea-cosies.-Jessica Ogden's patchwork skirt---more jessica---Jessica Ogden: Spring/Summer 2006---I had the pleasure of meeting Vivienne Westwood in Paris, in January of this year when we both attended the same party----turning his pants into your skirt----LFW Fashion Show A/W ‘08----tie sweaters----skirt----Beachy Skirt Rehab----wardrobe_remix ----Refashion----
30 minutes to a recycled sweater bag----How to Revamp Old Clothes----The History of the Zipper---Five Gallon Bucket is the commercial branch of my one-woman show. I sew, I knit, I spin, I tell stories to my daughters, I sing, I hang out in the country and practice being still.---Step into haute couture with recycling! Recently, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection challenged design students to create fashions from recycled materials. Watch models strut down the runway dressed in playing cards, pull-tabs, plastic bottles and more!----
ANDREA CREWS: Reinterpreting Second-Hand----Recycled Fashion: An awesome collection of paper, cans & used jeans! ----Indie Designer Interviews: Lori Marsha Recycled Wearable Art-----Shopping Adventures: Fashion Recycled -----Saving the world, one fabric at a time----
Every sewer needs a dress form. Here are four fast, cheap (and amusing!) ways to make your own.----Molded papier-mâché form is an exact replica of you----
The dirty truth about Cameron's 'green' trainers----
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bottle cap nativity scene at Zanzibar trading
bottle caps: As a bottle cap collector, I love being able to use and share my collection as functional jewelry----KIDS BOTTLE CAPS ARTS AND CRAFTS PROJECTS IDEAS, links-----old dutch childplays made of coca-cola caps. ----
Mala de anilhas, soda tab purse---
This project explains how to spin yarn from ordinary plastic grocery bags. This yarn can then be knit into a handbag.
Hand Spun Plastic Bag Yarn---an experiment: spinning plastic bags----plastic bag yarn---a twist on the usual plastic bag yarn ---spun plastic bags 3 ounces is about ten bags ---yarn spun from plastic bags ---spin challenge#1: on the bobbin---Plastic bags & yarn--- gorgeousplastic lace wedding dress by Deborah Milner---
Spinning the plastic bags turned out a lot softer than I had expected. I used the white twine as a core and spun the bag strips around it adding randomly parts of the wig, tinsel and pink fibers. -----
how to fuse plastic bags
Recycle your plastic grocery bags into a dog leash video---How to make Plarn! video----bags I am making with plarn video----
TUTORIAL: MAKE SEWABLE FABRIC FROM PLASTIC BAGS---
Yarn from old newspapers by Greetje van Tiem
Dave Cole , knitted flag---Pigeon Necklaces----Mike Stilkey {updated}---
Back from Paros...lovely!
A quicky post:
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead
Erinzam is the easier to pronounce name representing the work of Erin Zamrzla. In limbo between the completion of graduate school and getting a real job, she spends most of her time making things. A designer, bookbinder and artist, she loves Adobe software, paper, glue, acrylic paint and thrift store finds. This blog is an attempt to document some of her favorite projects, materials and inspirations.
cardboard: "Re-Furnished" Recycled Cardboard Chairs from University of Idaho Student Designers---How to Build a Geodesic Dome out of Cardboard------Corrugated Cardboard Wall----"Flexible Love" Folding Chair-----
Amazing Cardboard Chair Design Unfolding RISD
crochet: Bea Camacho, ‘Enclose’ (2004), This clip is from the last hour of a video that documents an eleven-hour performance in real-time. During the performance I crocheted myself into a cocoon with red yarn---Crochet in the Expanded Field-----
craft: craftivism blog----craft australia blog----The Crafts Council is the UK’s national organisation for the promotion of contemporary crafts. Established in 1971, we are an independent body funded by the Arts Council England, responsible for promoting fine craftsmanship, encouraging high standards and increasing public awareness of contemporary crafts and applied arts. ----craft's council-----what's in the tree?---japanesecraft---craftster----a c a b a d o i m p e r f e c t o blog---crafts----A beautiful gift-----
CRABBY DAISY, Custom Cowboy Boot Purses
Handbags and Accessories
Convert an old worn boot into a cowboy boot purse.------
MadSilence, A father and daughter explore art, culture, and whatever else catches our fancy from different sides of the globe....a curious blog. See: The art of the plastic bag---
The house nurtures our sense of self, embodies our notions of intimate family life, and serves as our haven in a heartless world. But it’s also the site of Sisyphean labor, mostly female—cooking, minding, cleaning, imposing order on the fruits and detritus of bourgeois life,
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bottle cap nativity scene at Zanzibar trading
CRABBY DAISY,
