Monthly Archives: May 2014

How to make dolls using socks

How to make dolls using socks

Reusing socks is another way of textile recycling with which you can create an adorable project: make dolls to your kids. Using recycled socks you can create dolls with the form of cats, dogs, rabbits, penguins and a large list of other animals and characters. Continue reading

“Corn kernel”: an original stitch to work with T-shirt yarn

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With today’s tutorial you will be able to learn how to make wallets, bags or cases only using recycled fabric and burlap. With the corn kernel stitch you can achieve a weave with a beautiful texture, as you can see in the cover image. Continue reading

Step by step crochet: single crochet

Crochet step by step single crochet

Today we will continue with another basic crochet stitch that you can use to weave with recycled fabric strips. The single crochet stitch allows you to make simple weaves and is an important part of advanced crochet schemes, the abbreviation of this stitch is sc and is represented in the schemes by a letter “X” or a cross. Continue reading