Preview Nuno Magazine Issue #1 Autumn 2010

8/9/2019 Preview Nuno Magazine Issue #1 Autumn 2010

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I have always loved the woods.

I love the sounds: the noisy stillness punctuated by the sounds of scurrying

creatures on the forest floor and of birds in the canopy over-head, and trees creaking

and branches rubbing together in the wind.

I love the scents: the fresh smell of growing things in the spring, the overheatedscent of baking pine needles in the heat of summer, the smell of decay in the fall and

the clean cold scent of snow and ice blanketing the forest in winter.

This very first issue of Nuno Magazine features projects and ideas inspired by the

woodland; You will find mushrooms and moss, trees and ferns, birds and animals.

We used waste paper and cardboard packaging, cast-off sweaters and disused

dishes, grocery bags and salvaged yarn to create projects that take us back, in a small

way, to time spent walking down a forest path.

I hope that you will find inspiration here to jump-start your imagination; that youwill see the materials that surround you, things that are routinely tossed in the trash

in a brand new way.

This preview shows just a small sample of the 30+ projects and ideas

contained in this issue of Nuno. You can buy the full issuehere.
http://www.nunomagazine.com/http://www.nunomagazine.com/


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This issue of Nuno was created by Elizabeth Abernathy Graham and RachelAbernathy Braff who began collaborating on creative projects as soon as theycould grip crayons.

In this issue;

Elizabeth Abernathy Graham

Projects and PhotographsLayout

Rachel Abernathy Braff

Projects and PhotographsCopy Editing

Royce Graham

Photographs

Photo Previous Page:

This photograph is of Rachel and me in October of 1980. At the time, we livedin a small two-story house our father built in a wooded corner of the familyfarm in rural southeast Missouri. We had begged our father for a playhouseand he surprised us with one made from saplings he had thinned from thewoods surrounding our home. The structure was tied together with bailingtwine and had a roof made from an old green canvas army tarp. We loved it. Itwent through several incarnations; cabin, bakery, animal cage...In thisphotograph we had decided it was our office (if you look closely you can seethe sign we painted).


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Items that were recycled,

salvaged or rescued fromthe trash and used tocreate the projects shownin this issue:

Cereal BoxesFood PackagingWool BlanketWool Sweaters

Wool JacketLeather ScrapsWooden BowlsFabric ScrapsBurlap BagLight Fixture GlobeGlass Vase/Drinking GlassScrap PaperJunk MailManila MailersPaper Grocery BagsPlastic Shopping BagsUsed Fabric Softener SheetsBurlap BagTyvek MailerLeft-over HousepaintNewspaperPlace Mats


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The Nuno Philosophy:

recycle reuse remakerework

rethinkrevamp

refashionsalvagesave modify conver

alter transformreclaim inventimagine

create


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Ideas12......Paper Silhouettes16......Twig and Stone20......Forest Insects24......Potato Prints28......Faux Bois Lettering Clip Art

Projects31......Twig Notebooks34......Recycled Sweater Felt Hats38......Salvaged Leather Mushrooms40......Covered Paperbacks42......Felt and Pebble Jewelry46......Knitted Fern Pillow48......Forest in a Box50......Moss Pin Cushion51......Wooden Bowl Bag52.....Pocket Belt54......Birch Trunk Wall Decor55......Recycled Yarn Wrist Warmers56......Animal Masks60.......Jacket Skirt61......Pocket Pants62......Recycled Sweater Sleeve Leg Warmers63......Recycled Sweater Sleeve Shrug

64......Woven Place Mat Bags65.......Giant Wool Mushroom66.......Dyed Wool70......Water Color Tinted Prints72......Bird Puppets74......Terrariums76......Crewel on Burlap


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Instructions and Patterns

82......Felt and Pebble Jewelry Instructions

84.......Hat Patterns and Instructions94.......How to Felt a Wool Sweater95......Covered Paper Back Instructions96......How to Recycle Yarn by Unraveling Sweaters102.....Knitted Wrist Warmer Pattern and Instructions104.....Knitted Fern Pillow Pattern and Instructions111......French Knot Moss Pin Cushion Instructions112.....How to Make Salt and Flour Dough113.....Twig Diorama Instructions114......Bird Puppet Instructions116.....How to Tie and Dip-dye Fabric117.....Giant Wool Mushroom Instructions118......Leather Mushroom Instructions120.....How to Salvage Leather and Vinyl121......Painted Birch Trunk Wall Decor Instructions122......Pocket Belt Instructions124......Pocket Pants Instructions125......Pocket Patterns130......How to Make Terrariums

131......How to Make Paper Silhouettes from Photographs132......How to Print With Potatoes133......Wooden Bowl Bag Instructions134.....Printable Forest Drawing136.....Jacket Skirt Instructions137.....Sweater Sleeve Shrug Instructions138.....Sweater Sleeve Ankle Warmer Instructions139.....Covered Paperback Instructions140.....Twig Notebook Instructions

142.....Crewel on Burlap Patterns and Instructions146......Animal Mask Patterns and Instructions


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The Trapper Hat:One of four hats made from recycled sweater wool, using the same basic pattern.


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Basic Hat Instructions

Cut 4 pieces from the pattern.

Right sides and A edges together, stitchtogether two piecesto form a side seam. Repeat with the remaining two pieces.

Lastly, assemble the hat right sides together and B edgestogether as shown.

Note: This pattern was drafted with a reduced seam allowance

(the width of a standard presser foot: inch or 1.3 cm).


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A B

Basic Hat Pattern

(cut 4)


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Trapper Hat

Begin with the basic hat.

Cut out the trapper hat brim.Make sure to place the pattern piece on a fold(where indicated) to get one continuous piece thatincludes 2 ear flaps.

Hand sew using the overhand stitch, whipstitch, orvertical hem stitch to attach the trim piece to thebasic hat. Allow an approximately inch(1.3 cm) overlap where the hat and the trim meet.

This hat is shown with the decorativeaddition of a fragment of woven strawtaken from a vintage kitchen trivet.


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Trapper Hat Trim(cut one)

(place on fold)


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How to Felt a Wool Sweater

Choose your sweater:

Look for the words pure wool or 100% wool or the wool symbol on the

label. Some (but not all) wool blends (at least 80% wool) will also felt,although less consistently. Cut your sweater apart at all the seams so you areleft with a small pile of flat pieces.

Machine Felting:

Set your machine to hot. Load the machine with sweater pieces (avoid mixingdifferent colors as they may bleed onto each other). Add detergent. Wash asusual. Tumble dry on high heat. If felting is not complete, repeat washing anddrying.

Stove-top Felting:

Fill a large pan with water and a small amount of detergent. Bring the waterto boiling, then turn down to low heat. Add sweaters to pot. Let soak for anhour or so. Air dry or tumble dry on high heat.

Occasionally, after felting some pieces may have significant pilling. Use a razorto remove pills.

How can you tell felting has occurred?

The pieces will have visibly and significantly shrunk.The knit pattern of the yarn will be difficult or impossible to detect.

My sweaters says its 100% wool. Why didnt it felt?

Occasionally, wool sweaters are treated to make them washable; this preventsthem from felting.

What else can I felt, besides sweaters?

Theoretically, you can felt anything made of wool (or mostly wool). Try felting

fabric from wool clothing. Sometimes, vintage wool blankets will also felt.Newer wool blankets may be treated with fire retardant which will preventfelting. When attempting to felt any garment, cut it apart into flat piecesbeforehand.


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Instructions for Basic Felt Setting for Pebble:

Cut a piece of recycled sweater felt twice the width andtwice the length of the pebble.

Fold the felt in half long-ways.

Hand stitch the short ends together to form a ring.

Stitch the bottom of the ring together. If the pebble isoblong, stitch up the bottom of the ring in a straight seam.

If the pebble is round, gather raw edges to a single pointin the middle.

Secure stone in felt setting by placing a drop of gluein the bottom and pressing the pebble firmly in place.


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Create jewelry pieces by combining pebbles set in felt. Hand stitch together pebbles

in their settings from the backside of the piece.

Ring band and bracelet are made by sewing a felt tube (the seam is turned to the

inside of the tube). Sew the raw edges of the tube ends together. Verify acomfortable fit and hand stitch pebble grouping (or single, in the case of the ring) to

the felt bracelet or ring band.

The large pendant has small loops of felt (a single layer, not a tube as in the case of

the bracelet and ring band) sewn to the pebble grouping. Position loops to

accommodate ribbon necklace (you may need an additional loops towards the

middle of the pendant).


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Covered PaperbacksThese ordinary paperback books are covered with recycled paper from avintage textbook. Their spines are decorated with strips cut from a laser printof an antique Japanese photograph.


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CoveredPaperbacks

You will need:

Paper for coversImage for spines

Stick glueScissorsRazor knife

Coat backside of the cover paper with stick glue and press onto cover of book.Trim off excess cover paper.

When you have covered the entire set, lay the image face down on a self-healing cutting mat. Coat a section of the backside of the image with stick glue.Place the spine of the book onto the glue-coated section. With the spine of the

book pressed firmly in place with one hand, trim away the excess paper with arazor knife, being careful to make a precise cut along the side of the spinewhere you plan to continue the image.

Repeat the process until all the covered books have a strip of the image gluedto their spines.


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The Autumn 2010 issue benefits...

For each copy of this issue of Nuno sold between August 1 and October31, 2010 we will donate $1 to an ADRA program that sends Liberian girls

to school.

After enduring 14 years of civil war, 1.3 million Liberians now live onless than $1 a day. Most women are not paid for their labor and are athigh risk for sexual assault. Sixty percent of females aged 15 to 25 yearshave never spent a day in school! ADRA is providing training, seeds, andtools to families to grow corn, peas, and plantains for their own diet andto sell in the market. In exchange, these families agree to send theirdaughters to school. You can change the future of a Liberian girl by

providing for her family and her schooling!(Quote from ADRAs website).

More about this program

Should this particular program become fully funded before October 31st,we will select a similar program to be benefitted.

Photograph by Bill E. Diggs. CC license.
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