handmade Archives - RChrystal https://rchrystal.com/tag/handmade/ Tue, 25 Apr 2023 19:06:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 211711421 Current project: jeans to rug https://rchrystal.com/current-project-jeans-to-rug/ Tue, 25 Apr 2023 18:57:10 +0000 https://rchrystal.com/?p=1494 In my latest recycling efforts, I’m making a braided rug out of old jeans which are too worn out to donate. It’s the first long-term project I’ve undertaken in a while; usually, long-term craft projects end up set aside and discarded somewhere down the line, but I have hopes for this one (and at least […]

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]]> 1494 When the endpaper is dragons https://rchrystal.com/when-the-endpaper-is-dragons/ Tue, 17 Jan 2023 16:08:25 +0000 https://rchrystal.com/?p=363 …you turn the book into a dice box. Sorry, Nora Roberts.

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]]> 363 Snowshoe jackalope https://rchrystal.com/snowshoe-jackalope/ Wed, 04 Jan 2023 15:57:26 +0000 https://rchrystal.com/?p=356 I guess it’s been my year of the jackalope. This one is made in polymer oven-bake clay and painted with acrylic paint.

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]]> 356 Papermaking, reprised https://rchrystal.com/papermaking-reprised/ Tue, 20 Dec 2022 18:06:54 +0000 https://rchrystal.com/?p=314 After a few unsuccessful attempts at handmaking recycled paper on very large frames, I broke down and asked for help to resize my frames so they would fit in a bucket, like all the hobby-mommy bloggers have. Help was graciously given, and I found myself with a proper handmade mould and deckle for paper roughly […]

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]]> 314 Papermaking https://rchrystal.com/papermaking/ Wed, 16 Nov 2022 14:37:58 +0000 https://rchrystal.com/?p=291 I’m essentially turning into a millennial-hobby-crafting-mom, without the babies. My most recent experiment in the realm of arts and crafts was making paper by hand, which is to say, expending a lot of time and effort to make paper out of…paper. The idea was recycling. Could I turn junk mail into letter stationery? Could I […]

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