Welcome to my Blog, a Crafting Year

Hello
I taught myself to knit in 2011 I have been posting photos of my knitting creations on facebook but as I am starting to bore my friends I have created this blog to record my progress. Then I thought I might try my hand at other crafts and see how I get along. I will try a different craft every month and you can read about my successes and failures and even laugh at my photos as I try different things like felting, crochet, sewing, papercrafts etc and try and make a few things from the kids favourite book Star Wars crafts, amongst others...lets see how it goes

Sunday, 15 April 2012

Back to papercrafting

So I know papercrafting was in March but I didn't get to show you anything or really do much as the table settings are very beautiful but simple. I bought a new magazine yesterday called 'Making' 
 (http://www.makingmagazine.com/page.asp) 
which had a really lovely idea for making a bowl from old magazines so I thought I would have a go. This is the sort of thing that I really like as it is recycling and making something original. Here is how I have got on so far


I rummaged through the recycling bin and found a catalogue and magazine which I cut into 5cm wide strips


I used 2 different sized magazines so the rolls would vary in size


Using a small knitting needle I then rolled the paper around the needle at an angle


to make a tube which I then flattened


Then made into spirals.
I then lined a bowl of desired size with cling film and started to glue the spirals to each other.

The bowl will be made up of these spirals and should look really fantastic, however I have to make about 200 spirals so could be a while.
I will keep you posted

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