Upcycled Crafts

If you have read my tutorial on the Drinking Straw Coasters, this Drinking Straw Basket is the second level of making something useful by using the drinking straws. Over here, …

Don’t just throw away your used drinking straws; instead, learn how to make coasters out of drinking straws and recycle the straws themselves. Video and still image instructions that are …

This fabric storage box is easy to DIY, get the details below, and make yours today. If you have materials and tools straying around the home, make these boxes to …

Let’s welcome the new year with some curled paper stars and wish upon a star that the new year will be a better year for everyone. Here are my new …

It is the end of November, hope you have had a wonderful Thanksgiving with friends and families. The end of November is also the time to countdown to Christmas (hurray!!!). …

This is the Water Bottle Holder I sewed using the intrecciato weave fabric made in the previous tutorial. I made it for 1.5 liters Tupperware water bottle but you can …

Spring has arrived, and Easter is just around the corner, so I came up with this eggshell craft idea… This year, I’m joining in the fun of dying some colorful …

My kids love to doodle with oil pastels and crayons. Though they are not a gifted artist, I love all the scribbles and drawings they have created. Looking at them …

This bunny holder amigurumi is not quite a usual “amigurumi” that we stuffed with poly-fill. Click to view how it is done.

If you have an old sweater that you are no longer wearing, let’s repurpose it! Let’s learn how to sew your old sweater into a kid’s rompers. I sewed another …

In addition to the shorts patterns, this is the toddler-size shorts sewing pattern, as promised. This pair of toddler knit shorts have the same original design as the kid shorts …

This is the last tutorial on how to fully recycle an outgrown denim dress into a 4-piece outfit: make a denim rosette brooch out of a sleeve and its hem. …

So, you have seen the denim vest and the denim skirt refashioned from an outgrown denim dress in my recent 2 tutorials. Today, the third tutorial in the series is …

This is the denim skirt I refashioned from an outgrown denim dress I mentioned in the earlier post. This is the second part of the refashioning project after I made …

This is the first tutorial to start off with the outgrown denim dress recycling series – splitting the denim dress and sew the top part into a denim vest with …

This week, I am going to write a series of tutorials on how to refashion old clothes. I have converted an outgrown jeans dress and sewn it into 4-piece kid’s …

December is here!!! Christmas is just 25 days away, don’t get panic! If you haven’t had time or being thrifty to go for Christmas Tree ornament shopping, maybe this is …

If you happened to find some paper cores or paper tubes from your kitchen, toilet, badminton court, craft room, or writing table, please don’t throw them away, … recycle them …

We often talk about upcycling trash and garbage, but one thing we all have in abundance that gets thrown out or donated is old fabric in the form of clothing, …

My mum passed me 2 bundles of old bedsheets she found during spring cleaning. She knows that I love to recycle and am able to make something good out of …