[NFB-Blind-Crafters] Saving stuff for crafts

[Bernice Bird]

There are 2 things I do with the greeting cards.

I cut the picture on the front off. There are 2 plastic canvas things to do.
You can make a picture frame easily out of 2 pieces of plastic canvas. You
cut out the part where the picture will show, and leave a border of a few
holes. You work those holes in whatever stitch you want. Then you put a
blank piece on the back and stitch the 2 pieces together. Usually I use part
of the picture.

 

The second one is more complicated, but you use 3 pictures, and when you
stitch the 3 pieces of canvas together they kind of curve. It is a little
difficult to describe.

 

My Mom also made a 2 sided picture frame from tooth picks overlapping kind
of like a log cabin. It was shaped like a pentagon. It is way too fussy for
me, and it takes a bunch of gluing which I hate.

Bernice

 

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Bernice, your idea of saving greeting cards to use in crafts is interesting,
and I too would like to know how people re-use stuff creatively. 

 

I used to buy decorated holiday wreaths and save the decorations I liked
when it was time to take down the wreath.  Now I buy plain wreaths and use
my saved stuff to decorate them the way I like.  And I take apart the old
wreath and use the pine branches as mulch for my blueberries, which like an
acidic soil.

This also gives me a wreath ring, but I haven't figured out how to make my
own wreath yet.  Making some kind of summer or spring wreath would be fun. 

 

And, a good while ago I took a KK class on making plarn-a kind of craft
"yarn" made from old plastic bags.  I used it to crochet a sit-upon mat,
which I still use.

 

I hope other people will share ways to re-use stuff for crafting.

Tracy

 

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