Crochet or knit with rag yarn made from fabric strips to upcycle worn clothing, thrift store finds, bed linens, and fabric remnants.
The fabric yarn made from rags or fabric adds bright colors to your piece, and the chunkiness of the 'yarn' creates thick pieces, perfect for placing as rugs on floors.
CURRENTLY IN PRODUCTION EXPECTED DELIVERY WEEK OF THE 20th OF MAY, PRE-ORDER AVAILABLE. *orders of more than one piece will be cut in one continuous length unless directed otherwise * **Please visit our website for better prices www.appleoakfibreworks.com And then there was the humble Nettle, so often despised for its sting. Nonetheless, it is a treasure. It can be used like Spinach, drank as a healing herbal tea, used for dyeing green and yellow, used in gardening as a pesticide and last but not least it creates fibre like Flax... FANEEL differs from our ALLO Nettle fabric, due to a straight weave rather than a herringbone like weave. Otherwise they are identical. The Company: NETTLE FABRIC ~ Made from Himalayan Nettles, wild harvested in Nepal. This fabric is ethically made in Nepal, by a company that is supporting homemakers, women and families to receive a decent income and to enable them to work from home, rather than finding employment abroad. Nettle Fabric In Europe, it used to be the linen for the poor. Cloisters and many other places devoted their time to the production of nettle yarn, nowadays pretty much forgotten and replaced by linen and cotton. The Nepalian nettle, Girardinia diversifolia, grows up to 3m tall. There, the Nepalese still harvest and peel the nettle by hand, then it is placed in a semi boiling wood ash bath over night, which is used later for fertilizing the fields. The next day, the loosened fibers are beaten across a stone several times and rubbed with clay to loosen the remaining plant debris. like most things in nature, this fabric has no one colour. The colour of one piece can vary from straw yellow to grey brown and even dark brown. Each length of fabric is a unique handwoven piece, in its truest, cleanest and most ecological form. The fabric keeps and protects body warmth, can be boiled and becomes softer and more beautiful with time and wear. In a nutshell: 100% Himalayan nettle Approx. 65cm wide Hands pun and woven Each piece is unique and can vary to the picture shown Rinse in a light soap wash 40-60degree wash Shrinkage 10% Suitable for making: Blazers, jackets, winter clothing, children's clothing, trousers, vests. Cushions, table cloth, curtains. Bags, upholstery, embroidery and much more Because this cloth is produced by hand and in small amounts there isn't an endless supply of cloth. Please contact me, if you would like bigger quantities. History: Nettle yarn was once used widely in Europe and was known as the 'Poor man's Linen'. Nettles once rivaled flax and hemp (and later, cotton) as a staple fiber for thread and yarn, used to make everything from heavy sailcloth to fine table linen up to the 17th/18th centuries. "In Scotland, I have eaten nettles," said the 18th century poet Thomas Campbell, "I have slept in nettle sheets, and I have dined off a nettle tablecloth. The young and tender nettle is an excellent potherb. The stalks of the old nettle are as good as flax for making cloth. I have heard my mother say that she thought nettle cloth more durable than any other linen."
Learn how to sew your crochet items to fabric using your sewing machine to make it fast and easy. Here are my best tips and tricks!
Saving sewing scraps for a rainy day? Check out this brilliant tutorial for making your own scrap fabric twine!
. . As a follow-up to my Crochet Coiled Basket Experiment here are the instructions. (click here for the original post) These are more like guidelines than instructions that must be strictly follow…
If you haven't tried making fabric scrap twine before, and if you have an abundant stash of fabric remnants, then there's no time like the present.
DIY Fabric Hanging Basket Free Sewing Patterns
By Jamie Marie Chan After I watched Becky Stern's Ask Craft video about plying yarns, I was inspired to try plying some of my scrap commercial yarns
you always keep these too? and i made it into this a while ago i saw on carolyn’s website a recipe for making a paste with which you can make a bowl out of yarn. she used a long piece of yarn…
Well it's the end of a busy week! I don't know about you, but I'm pooped! But I'm pleased to say we've had some gorgeous, sunny days here in N.I. this week, and there's a lovely Autumn feel to the air! As always, the things I've been working on this week I can't show you yet (soon I promise!), so I'm going to give you a wee tute on how to use up every last wee bit of fabric shavings, you know those bits that end up all over your cutting mat after trimming blocks and hsts? We'll here's a cool way to turn them into a new type of fabric. As far as I know this product doesn't have an official name - I learnt it at college and it wasn't called anything then, but if you know the official name of this craft, please let me know. 1. Save up your fabric shavings & wee bits of offcuts that are too small to be useful (you can also cut up wee bits of fluffy wool, ribbon, sparkly threads etc.). Bigger pieces will need to be snipped down smaller. 2. Take a piece of plain sheeting/calico and lay a load of shavings on top. You can colour code your savings as I have done here, or have a multi-coloured mess! Make sure it's thick enough to cover the backing fabric, but not too thick to sew over. 3. Lay a piece of water soluble fabric over the top and pin/sew round the edges. This stuff is really cool - you can get different brands in a craft shop or online. I've used Avalon Water Soluble Embroidery Fabric by Madeira. 4. Now sew, sew, sew over the top of the w.s.fabric, either by free motion quilting or straight & wavy lines all over. Try not to leave any big gaps where the shavings can later escape from. 5. When you have stitched this to within an inch of its life, take the pins out and under a luke warm tap or in a sink/basin, allow the w.s.fabric to melt away (it goes a bit slimy as it melts off so rinse it well). 6. Give your new piece of fabric a good squeeze to get the water out and then allow it to dry on the radiator. 7. When dry, draw your desired shapes on the back and cut out. If you want to, sew more stitching on top to highlight details, for example veins in leaves, or sew on beads, sequins etc. 8. You can now use your fabric shapes to embellish/decorate cards, cushions, make letters or Christmas decorations etc. etc. The possibilities are endless! Another way to use this wonderful water soluble fabric is to roughly sketch a shape on to it & then put it into an embroidery hoop. Repeated sewing and shading with thread will close all the gaps, so that when you take the fabric off the hoop and dissolve the w.s.fabric you are left with a completely embroidered shape. Have fun & let your imagination run wild!
Scrapbusting: How to make Fabric Twine
Скачай это бесплатное Фото на тему Различные шерстяные шарики в корзине и открой для себя более 47 миллионов профессиональных стоковых фото на Freepik. #freepik #фото #пряжа #вязание #шитье
Clothes hanger DIY to update plain wire coat hangers with cotton yarn and a simple half hitch knot. Pretty and stops clothes slipping off the hanger!
Make Pop-up fabric bins from on fat quarter and the Fat Quarter Gypsy pattern. Learn more on the blog at craftwarehouse.com.
Scrapbusting: How to make Fabric Twine
Would you like to learn how to make fabric yarn? Rag rope? A fabulous crochet fabric basket? Then this tutorial is for you...
Like a ray of light breaking through the clouds, our Sunburst Pot Holders in our…
Nature has such amazing colors and so many gorgeous layers and color combinations. Have you ever wondered if you could dye yarn with a particular herb or other plants nearby you? Growing up I loved to read and in several of my book adventures were people that had created dyes out of the everyday nat
A yarn doll is quick and easy to make and is a fantastic use for leftover yarn from other projects. Fully detailed tutorial and free printables.
If you haven't tried making fabric scrap twine before, and if you have an abundant stash of fabric remnants, then there's no time like the present.
When working on a project that uses multiple colors, trying to keep the balls of yarn from tangling can be an absolute nightmare. Modular yarn holders can help save your sanity (and your yarn) by keeping each color neatly contained and separated.
Use this tip sheet as a guide for using Free-Motion Couching Foot #43 to apply cords and yarns for surface embellishment.
The house was feeling really good to me after Thanksgiving, and I was inspired to snap a few photos of some of the knitting related items that are so much a part of my life: I love books, especiall…
23 Projects to make with t-shirt fabric and other knit fabrics! I love knit fabric, but I collect so much of it and I am always looking for new ideas on how to use it.
Gekaufte Hosen enger nähen, hier eine Nähanleitung dazu, die für alle Hosen passt. Ein bisschen Freihandstickerei peppt das Ganze zusätzlich auf.
This Super Easy T Shirt Yarn Project is a thrifty and eco-friendly way to recycle. Once you learn how to make t-shirt yarn, you'll never want to buy a skein ever again. Use old t-shirts to create gorgeous soft jersey yarn that's ready for any next knitting or crochet project. It takes about 10 minutes to complete this project, and in the end, you'll have a ball of yarn so it's a super quick and satisfying craft, too! Recycle a ton of old shirts so you have a bunch of different kind of t-shirt yarn to choose from for your next project. Crafts with old t-shirts can help you save big on materials and get creative at the same time. You won't believe how many things you can make with a single shirt.
Three years ago, Jeneen Martin took a break from making fabric baskets with a sewing machine and began to crochet vessels with yarn (and ribbon and whatever she found) around clothesline.
There was much rejoicing here at our apartment on Tuesday — for Orange County was acting all wintery! You'd think for sure I'd be craftin' in the rain, but instead I put Neil Diamond's Jonathan Livingston Seagull on the record player, opened the bedroom windows, sat on the bed and...
Knitted Lights Free Knitting Pattern
Avocado is one of my most favorite dye sources. We eat a lot of avocados at home and therefore have quite a substantial amounts of avocado skins and stones left. They would end up as a kitchen waste otherwise and I love the fact that I can use them in a creative way instead of throwing them into a bin. Avocados make a
Common Thread
I have been wanting to make something with tassels and when I saw this blanket at IKEA it all just clicked! I found some neon pink yarn and I knew they would be a match made in heaven. This blanket cost me $11, it’s a perfect size, soft, and oh so adorable! I might use
I had so much fun sewing the DPN holders for my last tutorial, that I decided to whip up a whole bunch more and list them for sale in my Et...
