You will need: wire, wire cutter
Method: Bend it shape it anyway you want it!
Uses: room decoration, place settings for parties
** Try a “Merry Christmas 2012″ wire doodle to hang on your door this Christmas! **
Materials: fabric scraps, various coloured thread, string, typewriter, embroidery thread, bell
Method:
1. Make little strips from fabric scraps. Type some favourite words on a piece if you like.
2. Scrunch into a little ball (add a bell inside if you like)
3. Wrap threads and string to bind together.
4. Layer further with more thread and fabric to taste.
Materials: brochures, glue, scissors, paper, a spare hour or two
Inspirations: Dada, John Stezacker
Tips:
1. Anything goes!
2. Accordion books make display and storage convenient
Photos show:
A simple bed of moss (grabbed from the garden) in a canning jar with upturned sugar bowl as the lid. (Glassware obtained from my mum’s clutter pile.)
Miniature gravestones (bought for $20 on Etsy) are magnified on close viewing.
A 4 quart storage jar (a neighbour was throwing out) with a collection of succulents (cuttings from a neighbour).
Create patterns for any style (eg. high hip fifties, bikini) to fit your individual shape exactly.
Ecotip: Recycle stretch cotton from old t-shirts if you like.
STEPS
1
Kitchen plastic film wraps twice around abdomen & once front to back over crotch. Tuck in edges to resemble briefs.
2
Cut down sides & let form fall to floor. Cut vertically down middle. Keep one half. (This is your base pattern)
3
Lay straight edge of pattern on fold line of fabric. Outline with chalk, smooth-curving the inner leg lines. Cut.
4
Fold front to back. Sew side seams. (Don’t worry if widths of front/back at the sides are different at this point!)
5
Try on, and take a piece of chalk to refine the shape if you need to. Re-cut to shape.
6
Align elastic along the outer edges, and lightly stretch over fabric as you sew.
7
Embellish with bow(s), button, monogram…
You take an old wooden nut bowl, drill some drainage holes into it, and hey presto! Luxurious bathing…
