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leethal
Lee Meredith, Portland, OR, UScontributor
My work has been featured in Craft Magazine, as well as the Craft blog and podcast, and craft websites and blogs including, craftypod, west coast crafty, craft and found, whipup, craftster, threadbanger. My knitting designs have been published in Twist Collective, Knitty, Craft, Geek Crafts book, whipup blog.
You can follow me on twitter and ravelry: leethal in both places
craft interests: crochet, embroidery, fashion, gifts, holidays, home decorating, jewelry making, knitting, memory making, paper crafts, quilting, restyle, sewing
my personal website:
http://www.leethal.net
Gender: Female
Birthday: 02/11/1982
Member Since: 08/01/2008
How to Make a Multi-Photo Frame
Create a meaningful gift that is quick to make and won't break your bank account.
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How to Make a Vest from an Old Pullover Sweater
Reconstruct that sweater that you're bored with to turn it into a cute new vest with custom embellishments of your choice!
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How to Make a Kitty Hat (for Humans!)
Show your feline adoration with a kitty hat, made from recycled sweater fabric, buttons, and other embellishing bits and pieces.
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How to Make a Fabric Case for Photo Discs
Stitch up a custom disc booklet for a wedding or other celebration to hold thousands of photos, instead of the mere hundreds that a traditional photo album can store!
How to Make a Custom Clock
Make a personalized new clock from an old recycled one, or even use the clock parts to make one on a separate object for a crazy, cool gift!
How to Make a Semiphotorealistic Three-Shade Print
Print your guy's favorite icon, toy, or gear onto his gift with this crazy three-shade freezer-paper stencil technique!
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How to Knit a Circle Lace Cuff
Create a wearable swatch of lace to use up some leftover yarn, or try out knitting lace on a small scale.
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How to Make Monogrammed Napkins from a Vintage Sheet
Turn an old sheet with a pretty pattern into wedding napkins with some ripping and simple lino-printing.
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How to Make Greeting Cards with Recycled Materials
Make use of paper grocery bags and cardboard boxes to create personal cards this season for Mother's Day, graduations, and weddings, and even make recycled envelopes to go with them!
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How to Make a Two-Color A-Line Tee Skirt
You won't need a pattern or any major sewing experience to cut two recycled T-shirts into panels and sew them into a super-simple and comfortable skirt!
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How to Make a Headband from an Old T-Shirt
Use a recycled T-shirt and some basic sewing to make a comfortable and cute headband that ties in the back and holds your hair in place.
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How to Make a Recycled Fabric Cuff
Take a couple scraps of leftover fabric and use your basic sewing skills to make a custom cuff, adding whatever embellishments you like to personalize it.
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How to Make Recycled Cotton Art Yarn
Use natural fibers, recycled from unwanted sweaters, and spin them together on a wheel or drop spindle with some thread, buttons, and beads to make your own unique art yarn!
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How to Make Pipe-Cleaner Button Displays
Break out your childhood crafting mindset and bend some pipe cleaners into super-fun button display sculptures!
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How to Make Three Buttoning Designs from Fringed Scarves
Take a plain fringed scarf and turn it into a stylish new buttoning neck accessory without any cutting or sewing (except for the buttons, of course!).
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How to Make Wall Art with Vintage Fabric and Buttons
Embroidery hoops make perfect frames for vintage fabric embellished with buttons. Depending on your choice of fabric, you can get all kinds of looks with the same concept.
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How to Make a Gridded Button Portrait
Use a ton of assorted buttons, lots of hot glue, and many hours of time to create a buttony masterpiece!
How to Knit a Buttony Chevron Cuff
Knit a simple but unique chevron cuff for your wrist, using buttons as the closure and to add interest and personalize your creation!
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How to Make a Kitty Litter Rug
Use a towel to make a cute and colorful mini-rug to keep litter trails off the floor and make for easier kitty cleanup!
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How to Make a Cat Castle and Scratching Post
Build a multiroom kitty castle and a big scratching post for your cat with all recycled materials!
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How to Make a Catnip Pillow and Blanket
Make a heatable catnip-filled blanket and pillow from a recycled pillowcase, or whatever fabric you have left over, for your kitty to go crazy with!
How to Make No-Sew Camera Sleeves with Recycled Socks
If you got a new point-and-shoot camera for a holiday gift and are now in need of a crafty case idea, here are a few versions of the supereasy no-sew sock camera sleeve concept.
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How to Make Curtains from Recycled Sheets
Here's a quick, no-sew project for the new year—make curtains from recycled vintage sheets! The best part is you can easily change the sheet with the seasons or whenever you feel like it!
How to Make Three Different Holiday Party Lights
Holiday gift countdown: 4 days. Put together some fun lights for your own last-minute holiday decorations or as gifts for your holiday host's home decor.
How to Make Easy Two-Bead Earrings
Holiday gift countdown: 5 days. If you have a stash of jewelry-making supplies, or time for a quick run to the craft store, you can easily make up some pairs of these cute earrings!
Experimental Recycled Sleeve Dyeing with Food Dyes
Holiday gift countdown: 10 days. Use the sleeve of a recycled wool sweater to dye some experimental yarn with Kool-Aid or food coloring. A perfect gift for your knitting loved one!
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How to Make Bottle-Cap Buttons for Knit Slippers
Holiday gift countdown: 1-1/2 weeks. Download a free pattern for simple Mary Jane-style knit booties, then make personalized buttons from bottle caps for your beer- or soda-loving recipient!
How to Custom-Embellish a Shirt
Holiday gift countdown: three weeks. Take a boring shirt and spice it up with printing, topstitching, and some new buttons for a great custom gift!
How to Make a Collaged Table with a Built-in Game
Holiday gift countdown: six weeks. If you have a game-loving friend or family member in need of some crafty furnishing, this collaged coffee table will be the perfect gift!
How to Make an All-Recycled Sketchbook
Holiday gift countdown: seven weeks. You may need the extra time to find just the right books to remake into a super-green sketchbook made with recycled book pages.
How to Knit a Stripey Short-Rows Wavy Hat
Holiday gift countdown: eight weeks. Even if you're new to knitting, you should be able to knit up one of these hats for a cozy holiday gift.
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How to (Re)Make a Custom Board Game
Holiday gift countdown: nine weeks. Turn an old, forgotten board game into a new, exciting, customized, playable gift for the game-lover in your life!
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How to Make a Custom Photo Album
Use recycled T-shirt fabric to make an embellished cover for a photo album gift, and use this extra time to fill it with special photos, captions, and more!
How to Make an Embellished Blanket with Recycled Sweaters
Holiday gift countdown: 11 weeks. Make this personalized wool blanket from pieces of felted sweaters, covered with embroidery, appliqué, and whatever else you want to do!
How to Recycle Yarn from a Thrift-Store Sweater
Holiday gift countdown: 12 weeks. That should give you plenty of time to unravel an old sweater and use the new yarn to knit a holiday gift sweater!
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Learn to Wear Hot Items with the Star
rela | May 23rd, 2013
Funny bracelet making instructions with string- DIY infinity bracelet
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Covering a briolette- change ordinary briolette into distinctive one
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Earrings diy ideas-how to diy lace earrings out of old dress
Nodan | May 22nd, 2013
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Re: How to Make a Top from Your Dad's Silk Ties
wow, clever design!! i've seen tons of tie projects, but this is something i've never seen before!
posted: 4:30 pm on May 2ndRe: Crafting with VHS Tapes
LOVE it!! I've been meaning to try knitting and/or crochet with vhs tape for years, and now you've inspired me to actually do it! And I totally LOLed at your iphone joke, btw.
posted: 1:35 pm on March 27thRe: RainMomma's Projects
haha awesome! I'm honored to have my design be part of the Crafty Blazer Posse!
posted: 3:21 pm on March 24thRe: How to Knit a Buttony Chevron Cuff
there are actually abbreviation descriptions above the pattern. kfb means "Knit into the front of the stitch, then into the back of the same stitch, to increase 1 stitch." if you need more help you can see sites like knittinghelp.com. hope that helps!
posted: 9:22 pm on March 14thRe: How to Make a Beautiful Button Pillow
Wow, gorgeous!! All that tv button sewing time so paid off! I totally want to make one someday with mostly blues and greens, and then a few oranges here and there... I just need to start collecting more buttons now since I've been using up my stash this month!
posted: 5:00 pm on March 11thRe: How to Make Curtains from Recycled Sheets
I found the sheet at a thrift store! It was a great find!
posted: 2:31 pm on February 7thRe: Experimental Recycled Sleeve Dyeing with Food Dyes
gracie_girl: This technique would not work on a cotton sweater because acid dyes like kool-aid and food coloring only absorb into animal fibers like wool, alpaca, etc, not plant fibers like cotton. You would need to use a different kind of dye method for plant fibers.
posted: 7:46 pm on January 5thRe: How to Make a Snowstorm
brilliant!! love it!
posted: 4:52 pm on December 1stRe: How to Make a Recycled Necktie Scrap Cuff
love it!! you sure are the master of tie crafts!
posted: 8:50 pm on October 3rd