miss koco http://www.misskoco.com Sun, 25 Jul 2010 22:48:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 Events @ Square Peg http://www.misskoco.com/2010/02/25/march-events-square-peg/ http://www.misskoco.com/2010/02/25/march-events-square-peg/#comments Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:57:00 +0000 admin http://www.misskoco.com/?p=236 A couple Sundays in March at Square Peg Artery & Salvage I’ll be teaching workshops. Pre-reginstration is required.


Paper Upcycling
In this workshop we will play with new ways to be green. Create easy accordion style journals, envelopes, magnets, stickers and paper beads.
No previous experience required. Materials will be included, but, if you like, bring your own maps, funky fabulous paper, old love letters, menus, food magazines to upcycle and your favorite pair of scissors.

From Jeans to Jewelry – Fiber Upcycling
Everyone has a few pairs of jeans that just don’t fit right… or a sweater you stuck in the dryer by mistake…or a t-shirt from some promotional event that you wouldn’t even wear to the gym… What can you do with them? Make them into jewelry!
In this workshops we will give old clothes a second life by make rolled fabric beads from felted
sweaters, t-shirts, and old jeans to use in jewelry pieces. You will leave with at least a completed pair of earrings and skills to make a variety of other items using this simple technique.
No previous skills are required. All materials are provided.
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turning junk inside out to make it useful.  One more go before it hits the recycling bin.

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To prepare for an upcoming workshop, I’m focusing on upcycling paper. I’ve wanted to try to make paper beads out of security envelopes for a while. I love the different patterns on the inside of them.

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Continuing to make things from felted sweaters.
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Coin pendants, from foreign currency.

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The thing about this thing-a-day thing is not so much the thing, but posting the thing.

eight: ribbon organizer

nine: paper made from manila envelopes

ten: handmade paper inspired by guacamole and chips

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made from:
recycled yarn from an unraveled sweater
handyed cashmere by Noro
some wool with a bit of glitz
hand-dyed wool from colinette

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A couple months ago at a show of independent designers and artists, I bought a handful of ceramic evil eyes or nazars. The artist said she wanted to make a mobile, and made tons of them out of clay. She was selling the left over disks and said it was cool if I turned them into jewelry. I hung a few on presents, using them as gift tags. For the couple I have left I made pendants.

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