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Pallet Housing that Survived a Cyclone

February 28, by Vikram Goyal.

Pallet-house-cyclone

A prototype Pallet home, that was originally designed as a glorious, cheap, and fast student accommodation, has survived a devastating Cyclone that recently hit parts of Australia.

The Pallet home project, called “The Shelter Project” was designed by three students at a university in Queensland, Australia.

It was designed as part of a competition, and no surprises, actually won that competition.

CQUniversity students Angus Hughes, Mattison Rose and Jessica Kahl came up with the idea to provide temporary housing relief in the form of ‘pallet home’ flat-packs.

Take a tour around the house here:

By using recycled wood pallets the trio aim to distribute these homes to those who lost their own homes in natural disasters. The fact that it withstood a Category 5 cyclone, means that it might work well!

What a great idea. What do you think?

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Comments

  1. pr46ct says

    February 28, 2015 at 3:10 pm

    I think that you have a great idea of making something out of scrap ,also I don’t know about where you live but in the USA there is way to much “Homeless People “. Wouldn’t it be nice to help the ones that want to be helped . Pat USA

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Pumpkin Cross Stitch Patterns

I feel the urge to rush fall along this year and kind of want to head right into spooky season (thus the posts about haunted houses and ghosts!) but I know we should also take a moment to give fall its due. And I do love fall, which is why I shared some fall leaf cross stitch patterns, too.

I thought one way to celebrate fall without getting too Halloween would be to look for some pumpkin cross stitch patterns that aren’t jack o’lanterns. These can be used to decorate all the way through Thanksgiving, and some of the little ones you could even stitch on cloth napkins for your holiday table, like the mini pumpkin pattern from Craft with Cartwright. 

This one is just 39 by 36 stitches, or less than 3 inches around, and it uses three colors.

The individual pumpkins in this pumpkin sampler could be stitched individually on smaller projects if you wanted. It’s from Cross with Me on Etsy and features plain pumpkins in different colors and plaid pumpkins. As shown it measures 7.5 by 7.36 inches and is 105 by 103 stitches. It uses five colors.

One cool thing about cross stitch is that you can use designs made for other crafts to make cross stitch projects. For example, beading charts also use squares and you can stitch the same pattern just fine. This pumpkin stack from Bracelet Book includes the word Boo but you could just stitch those areas in the same color as the pumpkin if you want to keep it plain.

Demented Stitchers on Etsy has a pretty pumpkin cross stitch pattern that looks like it was stenciled. This is a great one for beginners to try as it’s only 71 by 76 stitches, or about 4.4 by 4.7 inches on 14 count fabric, and it uses three colors.

For a bit of a fancier look, try this scroll pumpkin pattern from Annie’s. It’s rated easy and it looks like it uses about five colors.

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