Fun with music tapes

Co-worked tape with cotton thread again for this bag/backpack.

 

Leftovers

This bag sat half-finished for a while for lack of material.
 

Tape and fly

They sell funny closures for bags like this bee (or fly?). I got into the habit of working the cassette tape with an additional thread to improve stability.
 

July 2, Sommersause Altenberge

 

Aug. 9, Workshop

 

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Abendmarkt Rhede

It was a sunny evening in Rhede, I met several persons interested in the upcycling work, had good conversations and a great time.

 

Active Münster May 6

 See you there!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Upcycling workshop

 Aug 9, 2023, 7 pm, Paul-Gerhardt-Haus Münster

Ready-made bottoms

 ... for bags I discovered the other day. They have holes along the sides for crochet or to sew you work on. Its fun and looks professional. This was the practice piece standing on its bottom.

The solution for tapes

...is to work them with a second thread. That makes the product much more robust and it shines and glitters.

 

Mind yoga

 ...found new multicolored wool...

Still thrilled by tapes

 The base was made from tape mixed with wool thread.

Rheder Abendmarkt May 4 / Street market Hansakolleg May 6

The city of Rhede organizes a lovely evening market.

 

Two days later, a street market at Hansa-Kolleg in Münster takes place. 

I have been invited to show upcycling techniques there.

Tape, a wedding and a broken phone

... that is what I used here - meaning a length of fabric from the dress I wore at my sons wedding, an earphone cable for the handle and the cassette tape I am so fixed on these days.
 

Tape dog

 ... Picasso inspired

Save the date - April 19

 

March 11th Altenberge Youth Day

On March 11, I showed kids aged 8-14 in Haus für Alle how to work the net material.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  I prepared blanks to demonstrate the different techniques.

Cassette tape and Christmas tree

 Leftover Christmas tree net joined 80's music tape - both are shiny and make a festive clutch.

Mayor's invitation

On Feb 1, 2023, Münster's Mayor invited all Future Designers ("Zukunftsmacher") to the historical townhall for an appreciation dinner.

Large sacks in yellow

Usually, I can get yellow only from the small nets holding lemons. But recently, I received a considerable number of bright yellow sacks made in the way of the more often occurring orange carrot sacks. I had trained myself with a recent challenge of making a cover for a mobile phone to cut smaller stripes and work a thin thread along for stability. Here is the result.
 

Crochet from the latest trash delivery

 

Loving doodles

 ... from cassette tapes

Fireplace wood

You can buy the wood for your fireplace in hardware stores in sturdy sacks like this. They are robust, so again, the question is how to get handles onto them for reuse. You can always go a longer way, attach some accessoires and make a pretty bag, but for a fast solution just put some rope through.

 

Shopping nets

When I was a child people used to have shopping nets made from some synthetic ultralight material which fit into the palm of your hand. Thus, without trouble, you always had an additional carrier bag ready.

Among the potato nets I get from collectors there are often intact ones. Because it seems such a waste to cut them up I tried to get handles onto them without too much fuss. It works, but does require an hour or two of crocheting. You now have a shopping net which is as good as the ones I mentioned above.

Pass time

Sometimes I do not have a fancy idea for a project, but doing pouches like this always works.

Ready in time for the party

Clutch made from cassette tape again. It took about 70 min of 80ies music 😀.

Gingko

 Just doodling

 

 

Mobile cover

This was an order and a challenge. Requirements: Make a  pouch for a mobile phone and find a way to close it. I cut fruit nets in very thin stripes that would normally break. In order to avoid that I ran a thin silver thread along when crocheting to give it stability. For closure, I used a magnetic button.

 

 

Donations go to Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

Already in the past I have donated any revenues generated from sales of my bags to a good cause. I have now established a connection to "Ärzte ohne Grenzen" (Physicians without borders), which will receive these funds.

Their podcast    Hope, not war

 

I am in the process of setting this up, but you can buy a bag and donate already. Starting amount is 50 €.

 

This is how it works for now: 

1. Scroll through my blog and select a bag you like. 

2. Copy the picture of the bag to this Email address: grossklaus.arts.and.crafts@gmail.com 

3. Send the Email to this address and we clarify how you get the bag and MSF gets the funds.

 

Wie könnt Ihr spenden? Schreibt mir eine Email an grossklaus.arts.and.crafts@gmail.com und sagt mir, welche Tasche Ihr für eine Spende erwerben möchtet. Scrollt durch meinen Blog, kopiert das Bild einer Tasche in die Email und meldet Euch bei mir. Dann klären wir, wie Ihr an die Tasche und MSF an Eure Spende kommt. Mindestgebot 50 €.

Purple

Purple nets are pretty rare. Friends found some. Here is a shopper made from the little material I had.

 

 

Wind chime

I had kept a round plastic thing with no idea for a use. Found two now: it could be a picture frame (think of crafting with children), but I made it into a wind chime with an old metal grid (does not chime, but reflects the sun 😀).