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A blog which plays with recycled materials, paper, yarn, fabric and a lot more

Summer feelings and dragonflies

08/06/2019 by Charlotte
Cards decorated with paper cuttings made out of pages from old book

Having started cutting in paper again after a 30 year break, I have become hooked. My summer paper cuttings here are inspired by the dragonflies which are currently flying around between all the green. The dragonflies are cut out of a piece of grey paper from an old book. The paper has got the finest … [Read more…]

Posted in: Recycling Tagged: Dragonfly

Button box and recycling

04/06/2019 by Charlotte
Old telefon box with old jeans fabric and rose embroidery

I always need new boxes to store the different materials I collect. If you have followed this blog you know that I often use recycled/upcycled materials. When I upcycle a piece of cloth I try to use all of it, not only the part which I need here and now. Therefore I always save the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Embroidery, Recycling Tagged: Patchwork fabric

Bag out of upcycled fabric

30/05/2019 by Charlotte
Bag sewn out of old jeans and a green karate belt

I have, over time, made a lot of bags and most of them are made out of upcycled fabric. But you can never get too many bags and therefore I have made yet another one. Two weeks have pasted since I wrote about my small, woven, green squares. Now the project has finally been finished … [Read more…]

Posted in: Recycling Tagged: Upcycling of jeans, Upcycling of karate belt

Paper cutting and old books

25/05/2019 by Charlotte
Recycled old book used as material for paper cutting

I made a lot of paper cuttings when I was a child. I made cards, mobiles and a lot of other interesting things. One cutting was more advanced and complicated than the other. For some reason I lost my interest for cutting in paper and for the last 30 years I have made none. Now … [Read more…]

Posted in: Recycling Tagged: recycling of old books

Storage and recycling

21/05/2019 by Charlotte
Recycled jeans used as base for a red clover embroidery

I thing we all know how it is – you start a project but never get it finished. There is always a couple of unfinished projects which are waiting for the right idea to come along. The other day I finally managed to finish one of these projects. A couple of embroideries from last summer … [Read more…]

Posted in: Embroidery, Recycling Tagged: embroidery on old jeans

Pimp up old cards

18/05/2019 by Charlotte
Old cards upcycled with buttons and embroidery

The other day I cleaned up in my box with old paper and cardboard – something which has to be done from time to time. In the box I discovered three old cards from the 70’s, which have never been used and looked a bit tired. Seeing the cards made me want to do something … [Read more…]

Posted in: Embroidery, Recycling Tagged: Pimping of old cards

Weaving on old mini loom

11/05/2019 by Charlotte
Grandmothers old mini loom used for different patterns

The other day I found this old mini loom which my grandmother bought sometime back in the 50’s. I have for a while been wanting to try to weave so this was a perfect opportunity. The loom is quite small, the sides are only 7.5 cm. I have been experimenting a bit and it is … [Read more…]

Posted in: Miscellaneous, Recycling Tagged: upcycling of old jeans

Creative school projects

07/05/2019 by Charlotte
My oldest son has made this collage showing the landmark of Portsmouth

It has been a while since I last shared creative projects from my sons hands. Although the kids are getting older they still enjoy being creative, there is however, not many of their projects which get finished. But now both of them have had creative school projects which I would like to share with you. … [Read more…]

Posted in: Creative Children, Recycling Tagged: Collage

Cards with small embroideries

04/05/2019 by Charlotte
Pastel coloured cards with embroidery made out of recycled materials

Once again I have been making cards out of recycled materials. It is not that I write that many cards myself, but fortunately some lovely people buy some of the cards. The problem is that I can’t stop making cards. Every card is a small piece of ‘art’ by itself and it is always exciting … [Read more…]

Posted in: Embroidery, Handmade cards, Recycling Tagged: recycled materials

Summer top with ‘African flowers’

30/04/2019 by Charlotte
These squares crocheted in the African flower pattern

It has been a while since I have been crocheting. The other day, however, I decided to crochet a summer top made out of round granny squares. While I was looking for inspiration to the round granny squares I found the african flowers on garngrammatik.dk. Although the african flowers are not round I decided to … [Read more…]

Posted in: crochet Tagged: Granny square
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