HOW TO – Sew a Reversible Placemat
Chickpea Sewing Studios created this fun and easy reversible placemat tutorial for The Sewing Republic, who turned it into a video you can watch here. Related: • Patchwork Placemats • Turn a Placemat into a Totebag
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HOW TO – Make Tin Can Covers
Meg from Elsie Marley wrote a tutorial for making tin can covers with hand embroidered designs. She also includes some designs that you can use for the embroidery. Related Tin Can Organizers
Recycled Yogurt Container Lamp
I love the colorful, mod look of this lamp created by Craftster user Kianee. The coolest part is that she created it using recycled plastic yogurt containers! I just stringed the containers together with little metal rings, put them on a lampshade ring and … done! (The plastic won’t melt because we’re using it with […]
HOW TO – Make Recycled Cakestands
Kate Pruitt recently posted this sweet recycled cakestand project on Design Sponge–check it out to learn how to make your own!
Ottoman Tear Repair
ModHomeEcTeacher on Curbly shows you how to fix it yourself with her tutorial on ottoman tear repair.
Covered Magazine Holders
Two Straight Lines covered wooden magazine holders from IKEA with some of the cutest wrapping paper I’ve ever seen. [ via Cookie ] Related: DIY Cereal Magazine Box Holders
HOW TO – Grow Shiitake Mushrooms
Heavy Petal has a great tutorial showing how to drill an alder log and fill it with mushroom spawn-laced wooden plugs to create a super-cool log that will eventually sprout shiitake mushrooms galore.