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Furoshiki Quilt published in “Quilts!”: Instructables eBook

One of the most rewarding aspects of blogging, besides challenging myself to meet deadlines (finish writing before feeds get sent out) and coming up with interesting topics (and yes, I hear crickets over here many times and it feels like I’m the only reading it as I peek in to see if anyone left a comment in the last 40 seconds since I looked last)… is writing tutorials. I love [...]

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Voting starts on my quilted furoshiki

Remember my quilted furoshiki wrap and the tutorial? Well, it’s in a contest at Instructable.com and I need your vote. It’ll only take a minute. You have to become a member first in order to vote. The site has amazing instructions to make anything you can imagine – mostly eco-friendly and DIY projects you’d love. Go check out the site. And vote for my wrap. I really really need a [...]

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Instructable Mother’s Day Contest Entry

My Instructable Mother’s Day contest entry makes the front featured page! I’m on the bottom left. Yay!

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My first contest entry

I was in a weird, enthusiastic and optimistic mood this morning and entered a contest. Yeah, it was my first. I submitted my furoshiki tutorial to a website called Instructable. It is running a Mother’s Day contest and I thought the quilted furoshiki would be perfect for Mother’s Day. Wish me luck!

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Ecogeneration’s Furoshiki Tutorial Part 2.

2) Machine Sewn Silk Furoshiki To make this silk furoshiki, I had to buy silk scraps because I didn’t have any in my collection. But still, I bought an inexpensive pack of scraps and not a whole yard from a wonderful etsy seller, Purseapalooza. The problem of buying scraps is that you don’t know if you are going to get a large enough piece for your project. But, it didn’t [...]

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Ecogeneration’s How To Make Furoshiki Tutorial: Part 1.

Hand quilted furoshiki I wonder how we became to be such a wasteful society? I know…that’s deep and we can have an all out pow-wow conversation about it. But I want to talk specifically about something so wasteful, something so not necessary. Wrapping paper. Who invented wrapping paper? I mean, it really is meant to solely “cover” the thing that you want to give to someone, just so that it [...]

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Furoshiki

No…..it’s not sushi. But the idea does come from Japan. Furoshiki is a cloth that can be used to wrap all sorts of gifts and bags. It is a wonderful way of not using plastic to carry things and saving gift wrapping paper. Watch this video and learn how to wrap gifts and make bags using this ingenious method. The Minister of the Environment, Yuriko Koike, created a version made [...]

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