Find of the Week #5

A huge plastic bag with a ball of zipper tape was 

my find of the week! It is a great burnt orange 

color. See my "This into That" post for what I did with the ball

of zipper! A find at SCRAP.

"This into That"

This is a new feature to this blog called "This into That".

It also happens to be made with my find of the week. The "this"

is a big ball of zipper and the "that" is the zipper brooch 

I cut 13 pieces of zipper and used a high temperature glue 

gun and made the "petals". I trimmed the zipper tape and 

made a swirl for the center of the brooch.

Big ball of zipper tape =  zipper brooch

This into that

This brooch is quite large measuring in at 5 inches in diameter. I love it this big even if it is a 

bit floppy. The zipper was not stiff but nice and soft. I plan to make a lot more brooches! 

Here are the results from last weekends Fabmo Zipper brooch workshop that I gave with Dorothy Yuki. It was another fun group of participants and they all made some great pins.

Everyone hard at work repurposing the zippers.

Our 9 year old participant Skyler put her zipper creation onto

 her headband. Isn't that cute?

A group photo of some of the repurposed zippers!  

Auction Craft Party

This past weekend I gathered with some former elementary school mom friends. Three of us hosted a flower making workshop. Three other mom's bought the craft party that we donated to the auction. It was a lot of fun. Here are the results. We made zipper flowers and felted flower brooches made from felted wool sweaters.

Here are some of the creations we made that afternoon.