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How To: Make a paper crane out of origami paper
The crane is one of the best known and most popular origami figures. Now, you can learn by following this detailed tutorial, how you can fold your own elegant paper crane using traditional origami paper folding techniques. This is for experienced origami artists!
How To: 3D Macrame Fish Tutorial
How to make 3D Macrame Fish (step by step tutorial). This fish can be used for different purposes - jewelery, keychain, earrings, pendants, necklaces.. etc.
How To: DIY Easy Square Knot Flower Bracelet
To make this bracelet you only need to know how to make a square knot. This is a great bracelet for beginners in macrame.
How To: Easy ZigZag Square Knot Loops Bracelet
DIY Easy ZigZag Square Knot Loops Bracelet with Button Clasp. This is a good project for children and beginners to learn one of the basic knots frequently used in Macrame.
How To: Braided Square Knot Bracelet Tutorial
This bracelet is very easy to make and fun to wear! To make this bracelet you only need to know how to make a square knot and How to braid with four strands. This is a great bracelet for beginners in macrame.
How To: Origami an icosahedron shape
With 12 of these units you can origami an octahedron or with 30 you can origami an icosahedron like this. This is modular origami.
How To: Make an endless card
In this tutorial, we learn how to make an endless card. An endless card is a card that folds a ton of different ways, so it can be used over and over again without having to replace it. To make this, you will first need to take a piece of card stock and score it where you are going to fold it in the middle. After this, take a smaller piece of paper, then score it so you can fold it into three different squares. Do this again for another sheet of paper. After this, you will want to adhere to d...
How To: Make a Origami Companion Cube from Portal
if you love the valve puzzle game portal but don't have the money to buy expensive merchendise, you came to the right place. here you will learn how to make your own companion Cube just from a printed template
How To: DIY Easy Square Knot Bracelet with Beads
Easy Square Knot Bracelet with beaded lines. To make this bracelet you only need to know how to make a square knot. This is a good bracelet for beginners in macrame.
How To: DIY ZigZag Wave Bracelet
How to make a macrame zigzag wave bracelet with button clasp and beads. This bracelet looks great and its not hard to make. Nice bracelet for summer, beach and surfers :)
How To: Beaded Macrame Bracelets in Two Colors
DIY Lovely Macrame Bracelet in two colors with beads.
How To: DIY Wavy Leaf & Blueberry Bracelet
Beautiful Macrame Bracelet. This video tutorial is intended for people who know a little bit about macrame :)
How To: Attach an I-cord by knitting
This video knitting tutorial shows how to attach an I-Cord onto another knitted piece. Start by picking up stitches along the edge to which the I-cord is to be attached. Break the yarn, and cast 3 stitches onto a double-point needle. Slip these stitches onto the front end of the needle that is holding the edge stitches, such that the working yarn is 3 stitches in, next to the first edge stitch. Begin by knitting 2 stitches, pulling the working yarn across the back, as for regular I-cord. The ...
How To: DIY Laurel Leaf Bracelet
Macrame Laurel Leaf Bracelet Tutorial. This stylish bracelet would make a lovely addition to your jewelry collection.
How To: Make Origami Minion
3D Origami Minion - Easy Tutorial - How to make Instructions
How To: DIY Square Knot Bracelet with Diamonds
How to make a Square Knot Bracelet with diamonds and beads. This bracelet looks good and its not hard to make.
How To: Knotted Barefoot Sandal Tutorial
How to Make Knotted Barefoot Sandal Anklet with beads. Beautiful jewelry for the feet.
How To: Fold Origami Christmas Decorations - Ornate Winter Snowflakes
Christmas decorations aren't cheap. From outdoor lighting to fir trees, decorating for the holidays can break the bank. That's where ingenuity comes into play, like hacking battery-operated Christmas lights, modifying lighting patterns and building Christmas tree ornaments from LEGOs. But there's even a simpler solution to cheaper Christmas decorations— origami.
How To: Make a Revealing Flower
This video tutorial will show you how to make a beautiful Revealing Flower. The awesome thing about the Revealing Flower is that you will be able to open and close the petals. It will take 90 pieces of paper. Do not use printer paper. (you might as well use Post-Its) You will also need glue. Here's the video tutorial:
How To: Macrame Anklet - Barefoot Sandal Tutorial
How to make a Macrame Anklet - Barefoot Sandal Tutorial. It's easy and beautiful summer jewelry for the feet.
How To: Make a Transforming Paper Cube Toy
This unbelievable paper craft toy is made of triangles and tape. Unlike origami, it has hinges and can transform to form many different 3D objects.
How To: Make a DIY spiral braided bracelet with a charm
Bohemian ware is all the rage these days - from bohemian headbands to necklaces to hemp jewelry, the braided, slightly undone look is all the rage. Get in on the trend without dropping mad stacks at a store by creating this cute spiral braided bracelet.
How To: Join a crochet chain without twisting
Ever gotten frustrated when, as you're blowdrying your hair, you notice that somehow the blowdryer's cord has been twisted this way and that, to the point that it's entirely curled up into little loops?
How To: Amazing Peacock Tail Bracelet Tutorial
Amazing Peacock Tail - Macrame Bracelet Tutorial. It looks great and its fun to wear :)
How To: Fold Kissing Frogs
In this little howto you will learn how to make a frog that moves it's mouth out of paper. Step 1: Get Paper
How To: Make a Colorful ZigZag Wave Bracelet
This bracelet is easy to make and it looks interesting. Nice gift for your friends :)
How To: Picasso Square Bracelet
How to make Picasso Squares Bracelet :) You can make the squares in different colors or in one color. This bracelet is not hard to make and it looks interesting. You need: Clamps with magnetic clasp, Jewelry Pliers, Iron Jump Rings, Macrame Cords (0,5mm waxed Polyester) More info in video.
How To: The Blue Lagoon - Earrings Tutorial
How to make a Macrame Lagoon Earrings. A good accessory to wear everyday and for any occasion. (This video tutorial is intended for people who know a little bit about macrame)..
How To: The Blue Lagoon - Bracelet Tutorial
How to make a Macrame Lagoon Bracelet. A good accessory for the beach and for everyday occasions.
How To: Make Earrings Out of Marshmallow Peeps
In this video from Polymer Clay Productions, we are shown how to make earrings out of polymer clay marshmallow Peeps. They use holographic yellow glitter for the sugar, polymer clay, and Sunny Side Up yellow coloring. Use a clay color and glitter color that match. Have some real Peeps handy for reference.
How To: Make a Macrame Flower
How to Make a Macrame Flower / Looks like a Poppy, Sakura etc :)
How To: Macrame Spring Leaf Bracelet Tutorial
This bracelet looks very lovely and its not hard to make, perfect to wear everyday and for any occasion. It looks a little bit similar to a row of tulips :)
How To: Turn a crocheted circle into a square
Add to your crocheting skills by creating fun shapes. This how to video shows you how to turn a circle into a square. This crocheting technique is great for making granny squares.
How To: Sew a Stroller Bag
I was tired of digging around in my stroller basket—it was impossible to reach! So I designed this easy-to-sew stroller bag. It snaps onto ANY stroller's handles, and hangs where you can reach it.
How To: Create a 3D origami moving cube with Jo Nakashima
Take classic origami moving cubes to the third dimension by attempting this box-like version of moving cubes, which moves on both the x and y axes. This amazing craft can be shaped into as many forms as you can make with Legos.
How To: Knotted Indian Bracelet Tutorial
Macrame Indian Bracelet Tutorial - Colorful Diamond Chain Pattern :)
How To: Weave on a frame loom
Get crafty with frame looms, rug patterns, and weaving. Learn about rug weaving and how to weave with a frame loom in this free video.
How To: Macrame Star Bracelet Tutorial
How to make a Macrame Star Bracelet with beads ( Star waves pattern :) This bracelet looks very interesting and its not hard to make.
How To: DIY Macrame Flower Bracelet with Beads
How to make a beaded macrame Flower Bracelet. It looks lovely and its fun to wear.
How To: Fold an origami boa snake
Looking to add a rare and exotic specimen to your paper menagerie? Make a boa constrictor with origami, the traditional Japanese folk art of paper folding. This free origami video lesson presents complete instructions on how to make your own serpents from folded paper. For more information, and to get started making snakes yourself, take a look!