A new twist on recycling a plastic soda bottle into a stem or necklace

Over at WikiHow there is a super cool and detailed how to on cutting, melting and twisting a plastic bottle into what they call a wire, but could be called cord or rope. They show projects that include a stem for a flower and threading beads and charms on it.

[tags]recycle craft, recycle plastic bottle, recycle jewelry[/tags]

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Craftzilla on August 20, 2009 8:04 am
That is very cool! They don’t say what to cut the bottle with to get such an even, nice cut. Any ideas?
becky freemont on August 21, 2009 7:23 pm
friggin key-ute
stefanie Girard on September 8, 2009 12:43 pm
I have cut plastic bottles with scissors fairly evenly but you could also use a grid ruler and knife or maybe a paper cutter?
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