The young man creates his own hands such creations!

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Часть 1 - candles out of baby jars
Часть 2 - Thread storage
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Часть 18 - again wooden spoons and others......
Часть 19 - tin can box
Часть 20 - nut jewelry

DIY NATURAL DYES with FREE PEOPLE

I've been a fan of Free People for ages, mainly because of their perfectly bohemian aesthetic and super cool warehouse headquarters (thanks instagram for reminding me daily of where I DON'T work). I always tune in for their WednesDIY on the Free People blog, so when they asked me recently if I wanted to guest post for today's DIY I couldn't say no - check out the DIY Fishtail Skirt I made for them.

 

We also thought it would be lovely to feature one of their DIYs here.  Free People blogger Julia (um, best job ever?) did this amazing natural dyes project which I knew you would love. 

 

I have always wanted to experiment with natural dyes and on a gloomy day in September I decided that it was time. This is such a fun, environmentally friendly project that takes a little bit of time, but very little cash.

There are a number of plants that can be used to make natural dyes, but for my first go-round I chose to use fruits and vegetables that I picked up at a local market.

 

What I got: red cabbage, lemons, oranges, beets, yellow onions, blackberries, blueberries, spinach.

 

*It’s important to remember when working with natural dyes that experimentation is key – depending on the amount of ingredients you use and how long you leave a garment in the dye, the color you get can vary.

For pinkish/red dyes:

Beets and blueberries can make a really lovely dusty rose color.

 

 

For bluish/purple dyes:

Blackberries and red cabbage can be used to make bluish/purple dyes.  

  

For copper/orange dyes:

I never realized what a beautiful color yellow onions can have! Their skins can make an alluring mustard yellow, coppery color.

 

 

For yellow dyes:

Orange and lemon peels can be used to make a soft pale yellow dye. 

 

 

For green dyes:

Finally, spinach can be used to make a beautiful shade of green. 

 

 

Now what?

To make the dye, chop up your ingredients and put them in a pot with twice as much water as ingredients.  Bring the water to a boil and let simmer for an hour.  For deeper colors, you can leave the ingredients in the water (without heat) overnight.

Remove the hard materials from the mixture with a strainer, leaving you with the liquid dye.

 

 

The beets were such a beautiful deep red color! I chopped them up and added water and when I started boiling the water turned red almost immediately.

 

  

For the onions, I peeled off the skins and used only that part – I have seen other examples of this online that yielded really nice results but I was actually doubtful that this would really work.  Turns out I was pleasantly surprised!

 

 

I had high hopes for the spinach… if anyone has tried this with spinach and gotten good results let me know what your secret is :)

 

 

After bringing each ingredient to a boil, I let them simmer for an hour while I prepared the fabrics to dye.

 

 

Before dying, you will also need to create a fixative, which will help your fabric hold the dye.

When working with berries, use a salt fixative – put 1/2 cup of salt in 8 cups of water, put the fabric in and simmer for one hour.

When working with vegetables, use a vinegar fixative – mix one part vinegar and four parts water, add your fabric and simmer for one hour.

When you remove the fabric, rinse in cold water.

The fabric is now ready to dye! 

 

 

I put the fabric in the dye and let it sit for a little while – the longer you let it sit, the deeper your shade of color will be. I removed the fabric when I felt like it had reached a nice shade of reddish pink – such a pretty color:

 

  

I was happiest with the color I got from the onion skins – a beautiful amber that worked so well on the fabric.

 

  

Wouldn’t it be cool to make friendship bracelets using naturally-dyed string?!

 

 

By the next day, the fabric dyed with the beets faded into more of a light pink color, but it was still really pretty! I think next time, though, I would leave the fabric in the dye for longer.  The fabric dyed with onion skins actually held out really well, and I LOVE the color it created. I loved it so much, I tried it out on one of my Free People bras:)

 

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In this article I want to share with you the simple genius idea to found the blog of Olga Koksahrovoy known attentive readers as the author of the master-class on the card with keksikami to March 8 .

On our site already have an idea of ​​how to use needlework unwanted CD's, for example:

• make a mosaic of the disks ,
• used in the decoration of vases disk
• or use as part of the decor cards...

But all these ideas served a decorative function drive and be seen. In our case, the drive will only be used as the basis for ...beautiful roses made of cloth!

Make a rose out of tissue is not easy, but very simply, but judge for yourself ...

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For the manufacture of roses I needed:

• waste a CD,
• piece, \ b fabric 12 cm wide the entire length of fabric (150 cm).

More than anything special, except for the free 15 minutes!

The first thing I tore a piece of fabric from the required 12 cm (there had just been married in the figure, which does not interfere with production of roses, but prevent other use of fabrics).

Then a pair of scissors I have divided this 12-centimeter strip into two parts: a 2 cm wide, the other - 10 cm

First, working with a thin, two-centimeter band.

On the wrong side of the disc leaving a small tip (I left centimeters 5) to hold the strip and at the end of her tie tails.

Then, holding the tail with one hand on the wrong side, add up the fabric in half and start to wind up on the disc.

So you need to do on the front side 7 speed (or another odd number, you can experiment).

Now turn the drive on the wrong side to fasten a strip of fabric.

By the way, I have a band of 150 cm had about 60 cm, so if you pull the strip of stronger and more secure not tying, as well, such as a stapler, a strip may be enough, and on two discs.

Another way to save the fabric - it does not make the fold, wrap the disk stripe width of 1 cm

I did not save fabric and attached it to the wrong side of the most common site.

I have not tried to do too tightly wound and knot tightly to the drive, since then more difficult to smuggle in a second zone of the wound tissue. But on the other hand, the wound should not really hang out right on the disk.

Further work will focus on the front side of the disc.

Take a second, broad band of tissue around one of its ends ties are not too tight knot.

The remaining very short tail puts a hole in the disk and print it on the wrong side. There you can fix it, slipping into one of the bands of cloth, dropping a stick of glue or tape. And you can not fix at all.

Nodule function - to close a hole in the disk.

Now we start to miss the rest of the long ribbon of fabric to form the petals of roses of the future.

Drags the seal at any nearest thin strip, do not drag out, do something like a convex lobe.

Further, a broad band passes over the thin strip, and again under the next dives.

Similarly, continuing and further, over a thin ribbon strips passes, slips beneath another.

As the number of thin strips is odd, then after we go through the circle completely, as would finish it in the next row will alternate.

If we had a striped "dive," now on it will settle petal.

Thus, the thin strips remain virtually invisible to the end of work.

Getting closer to the edge of the disk.

The fabric is also coming to an end, it can be fixed or hidden on the right side under the lobe of the previous row (tuck under a thin ribbon of cloth) or wrapping the inside-out disc and paste it (you can tape) or to fix a stapler to any other section of tissue (but , regular needle and thread has not been canceled, too!).

I consolidated the tip of the fabric on the front side of the disc.

And so my finished fabric rosette looks from the inside.

Rose petals fluff of tissue sections were to be as less visible, and here it is, our rosette!

If you stretch the fabric when working harder, get more flat rosette, if left in longer intervals of fabric and form of these large petals, the rose will be bigger.

Additionally, you can decorate with roses, sewing beads like drops of dew, sewing or paste butterfly, adding the edges of the leaves. You can connect a lot of roses, making one type of decoration wreaths on the door.

I think it is relevant to such roses interior decoration for the wedding (and, incidentally, and other romantic holidays such as February 14).

This rose can be used in the ordinary interior decoration. For example, to attach to pickup the blinds. And you can make roses smaller, making the base out of cardboard or thick felt. Their use is unlimited and does: greeting cards, photo frames, scrapbooking, decorating hats, bags, clothes ...

Similar technology (first pull "rays", and then weave them in flower petals) hold even when the flowers embroidered ribbons. The tape can be taken in our case (instead of fabric).

If the drive you intend to use as a basis of neutral silver (or simply fit the color of the fabric), then we can use and more transparent fabrics, not just cotton.

Can not only use cloth, you can even take a temporary waste scarf suitable size. Only in this case, you will find the right color ribbons (not to scarf cut), a thin strip of fabric or other gum. Well, if nothing is found, you can wind up on the basis of a fishing line. It is not clear, but it keeps the fabric is excellent (well only fix the line, sometimes it can be difficult!)

And when a rosette of scarf bored enough to be cut wound ribbons (gum, fishing line ...) and pull the scarf safe and sound. Perhaps it is only slightly dented ...

Be creative with the dimensions of the foundations, textures of fabrics, materials for bridges - a ray of their number, and additional decorations and overall floristic composition, and you will receive very different, but always beautiful art objects!

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Floor vase

Floor vase from Kudesnitsy !

See and read carefully! This beauty is made of absolute garbage. And the result?

Materials:
old burst gorshek plastic, plastic 'bowl' food, a little plastic gorshechek, ceramic bowl from the yogurt, plastic tray from tsv.gorshka, 
rice or tissue-paper,  
orange roses, pistachio nuts, peanuts, cherry pits, switchgrass, 
PVA , velatura, lacquer.

Look at how a stem vase of matching the size of the plastic parts, bowls and jars

Серия сообщений "GARDEN":
Часть 1 - Planting Pineapple at Home
Часть 2 - hanging chair
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Часть 25 - wind sleeves
Часть 26 - luxury decor
Часть 27 - floor vase

Серия сообщений "Vase":
Часть 1 - vase
Часть 2 - carton vase
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Часть 14 - paper recycle
Часть 15 - candle holder
Часть 16 - floor vase

 

 

Material : 

 

1 piece of mirror

 

1 piece of "?" hook

1 piece of tin's lid - the size of the lid have to be smaller than the mirror.

Pieces of old cardboard...at least 3mm thinkness

Glue, Double sides tape, Glue Gun

Some sequins  (optional)

 

Method :-

 

1.  Screw the '?' hook and your cardboard ring into the lid.  This will be the base of your sunburst mirror.

 

 

 2.  Start to arrange your cardboard rings around the lid until you happy with the pattern.  I made a simple one by mixing 1" ring, 1.5" ring and 2" ring.  This is the result...

 

 

 

3.  You can paint the rings but I skip the painting job and add some bling-bling to it by glue on some leftover sequins...I bought this sequins earlier for my mom to add some on her dinner outfit...Well. that's another story.

4.  Close-up on the sequins thing..

 

 

 

5.  Here how it looks when done.

 

 

6.  Glue the mirror onto the lid using glue gun.

 

 

7.  DONE!!!  Finally, my own sunburst mirror.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Серия сообщений "Carton":
Часть 1 - boxes
Часть 2 - craft book
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Часть 32 - box
Часть 33 - faux cactus
Часть 34 - mirror

Серия сообщений "Pipes & Tubes":
Часть 1 - DIY Bracelet
Часть 2 - Lamp out of PVC pipes
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Часть 18 - faux metal squares
Часть 19 - faux metal wall hanging
Часть 20 - mirror

Here is the initial drawing I made for inspiration:

And here is how the actual Orb-lando turned out:

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Серия сообщений "Thread, Rope & Wire":
Часть 1 - Thread Lamp
Часть 2 - Wool Craft
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Часть 18 - coffee bean trea
Часть 19 - creative hangers
Часть 20 - wire lamp
Часть 21 - thread feather

Серия сообщений "Curtains":
Часть 1 - craft book
Часть 2 - Different ideas for cutains
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Часть 37 - curtains
Часть 38 - curtain patterns
Часть 39 - curtain crown