35 cool designer clothes made from regular clothespins

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

It's hard to imagine a more boring item than a clothespin. But it is boring only for people without imagination. Creative personalities can make a photo frame, a hanger, a Christmas tree toy and even a chandelier from a clothespin. Here are 35 cool designer clothes made from ordinary wooden clothespins, many of which you can make with your own hands.

Wall photo frame

All you need to create it is a pair of clothespins, twine, and a tea strainer.

Multifunctional hanger

In order to make it, you need not quite ordinary clothespins - elongated, with a hook at the end. But you can not only hang clothes, but also leave messages to your household.

Halloween Decorations

All Saints' Day is already close - it's time to think about decorating your home. Clothespins painted in traditional Halloween colors - black and orange - are perfect for this. Draw on them (or make out of paper) a devil, a pumpkin and other characters, and the toys are ready.

"Live" toys

To please yourself and your children, you can make toys from clothespins. Draw, for example, a shark on paper. Glue one half of it to the bottom of the clip, and the other to the top. As a result, squeezing the clothespin, the shark will "open" its mouth.

Photo collage

To create such an original photo collage, you will need a beautiful frame, rope, clothespins and photos. Pull a string inside the frame and attach your favorite photos to it.

Wheel frame

You can also make an unusual photo collage using clothespins and an old bicycle wheel. The knitting needles will serve as a "support" on which you can pin your photos.

New Year card

Clothespins painted white with cute faces and funny scarves are a great addition to a New Year's card. Attach them to paper, and kind snowmen will transform your congratulations.

Garland for congratulations

This is a great solution for congratulating colleagues in the office. Make such a "board of honor" with garlands of clothespins, and any employee will be able to leave their congratulatory note there.

Wedding greetings

Typographic postcards are corny. Surprise the newlyweds with a clothespin postcard. To do this, paint one part of it white (the bride's dress) and the other black (the groom's tuxedo). Don't forget the eyes, lips and veil. "Open" clothespin - lovers look into each other's eyes; "Closed" - merged into passionate kisses. Such an original congratulation will replace a thousand words.

Christmas decorations

Two clothespins glued together and one more attached on top, and Santa's reindeer is ready. It remains only to paint the toy in a suitable color, draw the eyes and attach the nose. In this performance, Rudolph & Co looks very cute on the tree.

Sweet butterflies

These "butterflies" with delicious filling are what you need for a children's party. Put the treats in plastic bags and pull them with a clothespin painted with a butterfly, - you get wings. Children will be not only tasty, but also, thanks to the original packaging, interesting.

Candlestick or planter

With the help of a tin can and wooden clothespins, you can make two beautiful and useful things at once. If you attach clothespins to the edge of the jar and put a small candle in a glass cup inside, you get a candlestick; and if you pour earth inside and plant flowers, an original planter will come out.

Pac-Man

To make Pacman as easy as shelling pears: cut the yellow circle in the middle, draw an eye on one half and glue it to the top of the clothespin, and the other, respectively, to the bottom. And to make it look completely realistic, you can also attach a ghost figure.

Card holder

If you want your message to be immediately noticed, then do not put it, but put it on the table. A regular clothespin will help you with this. However, it is better to use a clamp with wide "legs" - so the holder will be more stable.

Clothespins-Batman

These are clothespins for real superheroes. Making them with your own hands will not be so easy (you will have to get wings somewhere), but you will have the coolest devices for a superhero cloak in the world.

Photo wall

This is another way to organize and store your photos. The metal grill and clothespins will help free your favorite pictures from the dusty captivity of the photo album. Plus, you can change the exposure as often as you like.

Pencil holder

From 10-15 wooden clothespins, you can make a very nice pencil cup. It is enough just to glue them "in a circle". And for greater beauty - gilding and wrap with a ribbon. But don't forget the bottom - you can make it out of cardboard.

Clothespin pencil

Designer Bartosz Mucha tried to combine the incompatible. He "crossed" a pencil and other objects with a clothespin. The result turned out to be quite interesting - things from ordinary became multifunctional. True, the practical feasibility of such transformations raises doubts.

Wreath

From a metal hoop and many multi-colored (or rather, painted in different colors) clothespins, you can make such a wreath for interior decoration. An indisputable plus is that if you get tired of such decor, you can easily change it by coloring the clothespins differently.

Chandelier

To make such a designer chandelier you will need metal rings and a mesh, a bulb holder, wires, metal scissors and many, many clothespins. For detailed manufacturing instructions, see here. The result is a very atmospheric herringbone chandelier that comfortably diffuses light around the room.

Labels

In order not to get confused in your own linen closet, you can make these funny labels. To do this, you need to stick beautiful pieces of paper on the clothespin and make the appropriate inscriptions: "towels", "sheets", "diapers", etc.

Cat in the hat

Such a funny toy will appeal not only to children, but also to adults. It's a cat! However, you can “dress up” in a hat and a bow tie any animal, dear to your heart. To do this, you need to find suitable pasta, glue them to a clothespin and decorate.

Flower clip

You won't surprise anyone with flowers in ordinary plastic packaging, but you can do it with a bouquet with a holder from a clothespin. The main thing is to find a bigger clothespin (so that the stems fit into the "eyelet") and decorate it a little.

Fridge magnets

By gluing magnetic paper (sold in stationery stores) to one side of a clothespin and decorating it beautifully, you will get a bright and useful fridge magnet. Useful because you can attach photos, notes, and more to it.

Mice

Another cute little thing for children and their parents is clothespins mice. Ears, antennae and tail - made of felt, purchased eyes (although you can draw). It won't take more than half an hour to make such a mouse.

Wreath - holder for photos

This is another version of a wreath for interior decoration. To make it, you need an old wire hanger, paint, ribbon and, of course, clothespins. They need to be painted in any suitable color, and then strung on a hoop made from a hanger. At the same time, clothespins will retain their functionality - you can attach photos of loved ones to them.

Hanger for kitchen

Household items such as clothespins are difficult to find non-standard uses. But you can! For example, do not pin clothes on them, but make a hanger out of them and a measuring tape for all sorts of kitchen little things. Looks very bright.

Table lamp

German designer David Olschewski loves to use household items for other purposes (for example, a shovel and a pitchfork as a clothes hanger). Sometimes it turns out very cool. At least the clothespin table lamp looks spectacular.

Mirror

To make such a frame for a wall mirror, you need: the mirror itself, clothespins, a glue gun, a paper clip, a satin ribbon and … a tin can. The latter will be required in order to glue clothespins exactly in a circle.

Wedding accessories

These beautiful delicate clothespins decorated with artificial flowers can be used to secure chair covers, tablecloths, canopies and other decorative items used at weddings.

Photosurprise

Take this idea into service if you want to surprise a loved one. A garland of photographs attached to a rope with clothespins is a vivid and romantic way to remember your best moments together.

Whale and shark

Fans of the marine theme will surely love the clothespin whale and the clothespin shark. Such toys can be made by decorating the clamps and attaching the fins accordingly. Even more sea giants will "revive" the red felt tongue.

Airplane

To become an "aircraft builder" all you need is ice cream sticks and a clothespin. Paint them in contrasting colors, glue them, and the biplane is ready.

Yarn storage holders

This is a life hack for needlewomen. Handmade craftswomen often have a little yarn left from the balls. It's a pity to throw it away, but it's troublesome to store. But clothespins will help solve this problem too.

Hot stand

If you disassemble a clothespin, then you can make a very useful thing in the household from its parts - a stand for hot plates and pots. To do this, the parts of the clothespin must be glued together at the ends so that a circle is obtained.