Stell from Stellwork Studio is an excitedly eclectic multi-disciplinary artist, currently focusing on pottery as a profession. She has a small pottery studio in Petoskey, Michigan, where she further clutters up the place with stashes for what she calls “Trash Crafts” - bags, totes, and piles of plastic bags, old bedsheets, neckties, blue jeans, t-shirts, newspapers and the like to cut up to make new and useful stuff. Stell is also an enthusiastic petter of pets, enjoys exercising her once-but-no-longer renowned vocal prowess at the local watering hole with her rockstar friends and offspring, and is FINALLY learning how to do exciting things with her hair - a skill that totally escaped her previous to age 40.
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I think I'm going to do this because I don't like dealing with the knots either. But I'm going to cut the strips a little bit thicker because I'm making mats for the homeless
One of the most important health benefits of cattail is its natural antiseptic property, which has come in handy for various cultures for generations. The jelly-like substance that you can find between young leaves can be used on wounds and other areas of the body where foreign agents, pathogens, or microbes might do damage in order to protect our system. This same jelly from the cattail plant is known as a powerful analgesic and can be ingested or applied topically to relieve pain and inflammation. It is also used for toothache pain straight from the plant. I am curious one thing that I rarely ever see is the use of corn stalk and green brier and willow and wisteria for cordage. I am curious if you have ever hear of bobbin lace making? I was curious if this method could help you in some way?
This is so cool! I've made cordage from the main part of cattails by basically shredding the main leaves into strips after drying, but was a little dissatisfied with the limited flexibility and weak strength. Doing some research on how to utilize them better and im glad I found your video! Looking forward to trying this later when the cattails are seeding!
Love cattails. Cordage, medical gel, edible root and pollen. I’m building a small pond just to grow them and another pond for other water plants. I make baskets but love reed roots aged then soaked as the material to bind the material together. But the cordage side of what you showed also binds baskets.
This is genius! I never thought about using plarn for clothing before! It makes *so much sense* to do the forward pass with plarn and the return pass with scrap yarn to get a cozy, water-resistant fabric! Great stash-buster and a great use of old plastic bags! 💙 (I came here to see how I should close the top of my tunisian-crochet-in-the-round flip cap mittens [the kind that flips back to be fingerless gloves --- I've already split for the flip cap, and they're working up so quickly], but I just had to stop and gush over your resourcefulness 😅)
I wanted to try using the seed silk as a down substitute to stuff something with, to see how it worked. During WWII, the area I live in was the top supplier of milkweed for the country’s armed services, for use in stuffing life vests. Apparently the seed silk stays very buoyant in water, when packed tightly into channels sewn in a life jacket.
Good video BUT @11:51 you show the stitching you did. Was it by hand or by sewing machine. I think it would be awkward to be able to use the machine. Maybe there is a trick to that ? Oops, the description implies only hand stitching. Thank You.
dogbane weed and i like using milkweed and corn husk as well and tulip polar bark and bass wood bark and concord grap vine for cordage but dogbane is the best out of all the plant i have used yukka gava a close second of being the best i remember my grandfather made cordage from cat tail but not to common her in west Virginia unless your near water we don't have red cedar here but you can use them for cordage as well with birth bark great video
I really want to learn this technique from you. Your birds are wonderful. There singing is beautiful and the birds are doing what birds do. How there singing is competing with your viewers hearing you clearly. I can not understand you in your video.
I loved the birds, but then they sounded very rambunctious after awhile! But they're very lively, that's for sure! I was wondering how you join this new plarn strip to the working plarn strip that's on the project, if that makes sense. Is there a special way to do this, or do you just knot it together and continue your project?
There seem to be two major ways of making a net. This way, and one using a sheet knot and a shuttle. Is there a reason you would choose one way over the other?
Honestly, the only reason I did it this way was to avoid having to learn how to tie the sheet knot and use the netting shuttle 😆 Instead, I just used some latent macrame skills.
This is awesome to find out just how fine a cordage you can get for free! Wild stands of willow and cattails are everywhere around here making gathering these materials easy. Making this cordage is a really great crappy weather job even for old hands like mine. Thanks for the extra knowledge! Greetings from Alberta, Canada.
I'm part native american. My mother taught me this technique. I cried watching you do the same. We used our cordage while weaving baskets. I'm now a senior, but I will locate some materials and make a basket in honor of my revisiting this today. Thank you very much.
Awww man! At 9:21 your video begins a high-pitched buzzing sound that continues to the end and it makes it unbearable to watch and listen! I can't finish watching the video with sound, I have to mute you and depend on subtitles...
I'm over here windering.if you can make clithing with it, and blackberry or bramble fibers. We have a LOT of blackberry, and it does make nice cordsge. I just wonder if it softens with time and use like nettles and flax do.
Cordage from nettles will knot or weave for clothing. Work it wet on drop spindle will help soften it then work and rub when you roll it up in a ball. I didn’t weave it but I’ve knitted it and made a top to wear years ago
BRILLIANT! I have wanted to try making plastic yarn but didn't want to deal with joining dozens of segments. Thank you for sharing this. Your advice has helped me build the confidence to give this a try.
Thank you!!!!! Been putting off making a net bag but your video was perfect amount of calm talking and chill vibes to craft along to!!! The gauge piece really helped as well! So much less frustrating than guestimating!!! 🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡
Golly, thank you! Have been looking for clear instructions on making a net bag, and *finally*, here they are, beautifully explained and demonstrated. Had no trouble at at. Have string, have cardboard, have scissors, now to make a replacement bag for my gardening tools. BTW, loved listening, because your accent reminds me of home, from "yay long" to "mmmkay", to semi-singing the process of counting, all ways of speaking I use too, to this day. It all brings back such happy memories. Thanks so kindly!
@@stellworkstudio4391 thank you!! I’m going to try this. I really need something for the bottom of the playgym we have built, but that’s going to be hard since it has a hole for them to climb through the middle.
