make bowls from paper, fabric, thread, or beads……
Posted June 20th, 2006 by
Abigail Percy
An earlier post on whipup about recycling and crafts referenced this craftster tutorial on making paper bowls. Here are some other great ideas to make different kinds of bowls:
book about making bowls from leftover threads
June 20th, 2006 at 11:53 am
I love the melted bead bowl. I’ve been keeping my eyes out for cheap plastic beads, but so far I’ve only found expensive plastic beads, but I’m determined. I will make a melted bead bowl!
June 20th, 2006 at 7:50 pm
This reminded me of another melted bowl I’d seen on craftster. It is a bowl made with plastic army men and there is a tutorial on how to make it as well.
Army Men Bowl
June 20th, 2006 at 8:14 pm
Gorgeous!
You could also make suncatchers in something flat (e.g. cake pans). I wonder how well they join up — could you support the weight to hang it in a window?
I don’t have oodles of plastic beads stashed, but maybe I will have to get some… I’m envisioning “stained glass” in my windows now.
June 21st, 2006 at 3:23 am
When I worked for IBM in the early 80’s, we’d use the old 80 column computer cards to make little rectangular bowls. I repaired card punch machines, so computer cards were always available. Fold up a little open box, and you’ve got a place to put the screws and clips and things you removed as you worked on the machine. I still make similar little paper containers whenever I need a quick and temporary storage container.
The paper bowl reminded me of that.