We were shown how to cut the inner tubes (they cut beautifully, specially if you use scissors, slightly more tricky if you use a crafting knife) and were then shown some designs for inspiration. Then we were invited to make our own items!
It was a very sociable event and it was great to have two hours to just play around with ideas and make things. I tried to make two pairs of earrings. The first pair, which you can see in the photo, worked (though they're far from perfect)
and the second pair were a total failure!
It was very nice to work with a new material that I've never used before. Specially finding that it's such a lovely material to work with. However I can't ride a bike (shameful admission for an environmentalist I know!) so I won't have a supply of inner tubes of my own.
If you're in (or close to) Edinburgh and want to try making things from inner tubes, Changeworks have a supply, and if you ask nicely they will probably give you some!
You can read about the previous jewellery making workshop I attended here.
10 comments:
How neat you can use recycled materials.. The earrings are pretty.. Have a happy weekend!
How creative! For a moment, when I read the preview, I thought you were saying the workshop was bad!!! sigh.
pretty cool idea!
Beautiful blue leaves -at least that's the color they are on my monitor. In case they are black: beautiful black eaves!
Have you never learned to ride a bike or do you have balance issues?
:) m & jb (who can't ride a bike, either)
Hi Maureen, they're actually black, but even on my monitor they look a bit blue! I can actually ride a bike, but only a bike low enough for me to sit on it with my feet on the ground at both sides (so that I can feel safe when i stop) and only on straight, flat roads. So it's pretty usefuless in any real life situation, specially in a busy, hilly city like Edinburgh!
That's so neat! I have been to jewelry making workshops before, and it was a disaster each time, haha! I am, uhh, NOT good at making jewelry, to put it lightly, haha... - www.domesticgeekgirl.com
They are a pair of earrings, a brilliant creative work, CGP you are superb.
Um, I guess I should have asked. Are we talking about a bicycle or a motorcycle here? LOL!
How about one of the recumbent bikes? Or one of those tricked out 3-wheelers!
Very clever workshop.
Rabbits Guy - funnily eough I was just thinking about a three wheeler, it would be quite fun, but there would still be the issue of the busy Edinburgh traffic
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