Crafty Marie

What is the Craft of Tea Bag Folding? Tea Bag Folding is one of the older crafting techniques that I still really enjoy. The name of this is slightly unusual and it originated in a rather unique way too with a lady in Holland called Tiny van der Plass. It's a paper craft which is one of my favorites because I love working with this medium and it involves making a series of folds, a little like modular origami. The big difference is that origami is an ancient art form that prides itself on using no adhesives or glue while this craft actually requires it. Tiny van der Plass started playing around with her printed fruit teabag wrappers or envelopes. She folded them up and used them as embellishments to create a pretty card for her sister and the whole craft developed from there. Just one woman and a really inventive and imaginative idea turned into something that now has rather a huge, niche following.

We actually had our last warm day on Halloween which was rather odd because we were strolling around in T-Shirts during a time of year when thick coats are the norm. Since then, the weather has been back to bite with a vengeance and I've been hastily working on those winter season crafts. My first task was to get started on the crochet pennant banner bunting which is a quick way to decorate for Christmas around the walls of our main living space. The great thing about these crocheted banners, especially when working in the round as I have, is that you can use up all your spare bits of yarn. I picked out loads of oddments of yarn, not even the exact weights and thicknesses I have to admit, and have been using those instead of buying new. So making yarn banners hasn't cost anything extra to make.