Craft: Tea Bag Wreath

With some help from my tea-drinking friends, I have created a wreath of tea bag wrappers which we used to decorate our small apartment. It's really easy, and a good way to use all of those wrappers that you don't really need anyway. And it didn't cost us anything! See how we did it:

Pieces of cardboard leftover from a box my mom mailed me made our matting.

We tried a couple different strategies. In this one, the tea bag wrappers were layered up and down.

In this design, we decided to do more of a fish scale layering. We went with this design.

 And after hot-gluing the pieces of cardboard together and the tea bag wrappers to the cardboard, we have a finished product! We used command strips to fasten it to the wall.

Next Project: Gloves!

Well, I'm back from my wonderful trip to Asia and I've been knitting a pair of gloves for a friend of mine. This is my first attempt at gloves and, let me just say, I'm learning a lot of knitting techniques. For example, this is my first time knitting an entire project on double pointed needles! 

This is the pattern that I'm using. It makes a design on the back of the gloves, but because the yarn my friend gave me is self-striping, I 86ed the design part and kept everything else. Here is a picture of the work in progress, and once I finish the second glove, I'll put up a final picture. It's not perfect, but I think she will still like them. I head back to college this Saturday, and I hope to have most of the second glove completed by then. 

Until next time,

Alex