Tag: upcycle
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August 24, 2009 01:20 AM EDT --
As many of you know, I crochet and have been adding recycling / upcycling items to my regular crochet items.
Could you take a look and tell me if I should continue to add them, or stick with the regular . . .
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October 11, 2009 02:00 PM EDT --
Instead of making a rag rug, I decided to try to make a rag teddy bear. I crocheted it with sheets and made a matching scarf. I trimed the scarf with a pretty thread border.It's stuffed with leftover . . .
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December 07, 2007 12:16 PM EST --
"Plarn?" Yes, plarn. Plarn is plastic yarn, and it's a great way to recycle those plastic grocery bags. You can even use it to make new bags so that you don't have . . .
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September 17, 2009 04:20 PM EDT --
I made this bag by crocheting stripes of plastic shopping bags, and using like a yarn (plarn). The red stripe in the middle was made using the plastic wrapping from 9 one gallon milk containers.
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August 23, 2009 02:46 PM EDT --
I made another tote for my shop from plastic bags (mostly bread bags) It's shinier than when I make them out of the plastic shopping bags, but a lot more work. I think I used about 50 to make this . . .
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November 24, 2008 11:52 PM EST --
When I think about good companies that have education, people and the environment in mind, one of the companies I think about first is Terracycle. More
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September 01, 2009 05:03 PM EDT --
I have been crocheting my little fingers off to keep my shop up to date with fresh products-I now have 90 items listed. Everything from crochet button top hanging kitchen towels to up cycled "plarn" . . .
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November 12, 2009 03:38 PM EST --
This cute little bowl was created from T shirts that I cut into strips and crocheted.
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April 23, 2007 10:57 PM EDT --
After seeing a book on using an upper whorl drop spindle, I just wanted to try one out in the worst way. It nagged at me for a week. So today I decided to make one from parts on hand. I found an arrow . . .
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October 17, 2008 06:10 PM EDT --
I made this workbench from a used countertop found at a Salvation Army thrift store and a piece of pressboard found at a Habitat for Humanity ReStore. If I hadn't been so desperate for extra workspace . . .
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