Crocheted basket and dish: crochet tutorial

Crocheted basket and dish: crochet tutorial
Crochet with nilon yarn

 

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Gift presents for kids: knitting hat

Kepure graziu rasteliu


Gift presents for kids: knitting hat

knitting hat: Free knitting patterns

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Happy newyear 2012: Beaded dragon pendants

 

Beaded Dragon Curve Fractal Necklace - Rainbow
From DragonNerd

Simple Fractal Beauty. The only pattern in the Dragon Curve is a single 90 degree bend. Then you copy the entire pattern. Then you copy it again, and again, and again... Simplicity itself, but a wondrously complex image comes from it. A beautiful demonstration that something simple can easily become joyfully complex.

This necklace is perfect for both your inner math geek or your extrovert fashionista.Glass Beaded Dragon Phone/Key/Purse Charm
From fiberaddicts

Beaded Dragon
From lineofbirds

Measuring 4" nose-tail, 2.75" wing-wing, these diminutive dragons are sure to win your heart.
Created with silvered enameled copper wire skeletons, and 8° seed bead flesh, (with smaller bead details), they are charmingly poseable.
Hang one in your window to melt the last of winter's frosty chill, or from your rear view mirror to fly along on a road trip. They have a great sense of direction, and know how to read a GPS. Mine love to perch atop my computer monitor, ready to swoop down onto my keyboard, startling me out of my daydreams.
They are also great garden helpers, each one consuming it's weight in aphids each day from your roses, providing the fuel they need to scorch other scary or harmful garden pests, without harm to your plants, unless you are in the habit of using flammable pesticides. They've even been known to singe the hair from unsuspecting rodents, sending them fleeing-naked and ashamed into the wilds.*

Each dragon is lovingly created according to your request, so allow 10 business days to maturity. Shipping times vary depending on your location, but may take up to 14 days, and even longer near the holidays. Please note me if you plan to order more than one, so that I can give you a time estimate - I am the sole employee.

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Folding a pyramid with palm leaves, video tutorial

 

Can be woven loosely for a grape effect or folded tightly for a pyramid shape.


Folding a pyramid with palm leaves, video tutorial

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Easy way to folding fish (palm leaves and paper)

Easy way to folding fish (palm leaves and paper)

Palm Leaf Fishes

Palm frond art

While riding in a boat tour around the cultural center, Mary learned how to make this fish from a palm frond.

Things You Need:
1.   Piece of palm leaf
2.   Scissors
3.   Ruler
4.   Small knife
Tutorial
1. Take a piece of palm leaf.
2. Use the small knife or your thumb fingernail and insert it at the base of the stalk.
3. Run the knife or fingernail down the base of the stalk, all the way to the tail end of the palm. 
4. Pull off the stalk and save it for later use.
5. Take the two pieces, (still intact at the widest end) measure one inch from the widest end and cut.
6. Take the two cut pieces and even the up.
7. Take the ruler and measure 14 inches from the cut end.
8. Take the scissors and cut at the 14 inch mark.
9. You now have two even pieces of leaf to make your pinwheel.
10. Take the two even pieces of palm and make a cross.
11. Use the left thumb and first finger to hold the pieces together in the center.
12. Bend the top end of the vertical piece towards the center, and hold it with your thumb in place. 
13. Repeat the same process with the bottom vertical piece.
14. Hold the pieces of palm with your left fingers and use your right thumb and first finger to bend and insert the right horizontal end into the top loop.
15. Repeat the same process with the left piece and bottom loop.
16. Use the right thumb, slowly release and slip the end of the bottom loop into the right loop
17. Repeat the same process for the left side.
18. Use all your fingers to pull and hold the four ends, while forming the pinwheel.

 19. Folding the pinwheel wing at the right bottom  parallel to the diagonal.

20. Using the the pinwheel wing at the right top, folding over the pinwell wing that  parallel to the diagonal and threaded down the diagonal.
21. Using scissor to cut fins for the fish
To make paper fish you can make with the same way.

Palm Fish

Photo: http://flick.com

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Palm leaf Hopper tutorial

Palm leaf Hopper tutorial Split the leaf Remove a leaf from a palm. Using a pin split the leaf in three, separating the hard center vein from the leaf at both sides. Leave the last 2cm intact at the side that was connected to the palm.

Carefully run your nail along the vein to soften it so that it’s more pliable. Fold the vein back on itself and tuck under the leaf where it’s still connected. It might be easier for you to use a tiny bit of putty or Oasis fix to keep the vein in place while you practice doing this and later you will find it’s easy to hold in place while you weave the body.

Start weaving the body Fold one side under and then over the vein. Pull tight. Do the same with the other side and pull tight.

Continue weaving the body two or three more times depending on the length of your palm leaf.

Butterfly Body

Create feelers (Antenna) by tucking the two sides of the leaf into the vein loop and pulling the vein snug. Separate the side strips and carefully run your nail through the length of each to curl as you would ribbon.

Tie and curl the Butterfly Feelers

Top of the Butterfly Finish off the body by weaving the long center vein around itself and cut short. Cut the tail end if required.

Fly or Hop?

You can now add leaves for wings or cut the left-over vein in 2 for legs to tuck into the body.

Grasshoppers Read more: http://www.christinedebeer.co.za/?p=1119

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