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Lisa Smirnova’s Favorite “Painting” Medium Is Embroidery

Lisa Smirnova’s Favorite “Painting” Medium Is Embroidery

By Sophia Smith

Sophia Smith

Sophia is the managing editor of the Make: blog. When she’s not greasing editorial gears, she likes to run, ride, climb, and lift things, and make lo-tech goods like zines, desserts, and altered clothing. @sophiuhcamille

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Moscow-based artist Lisa Smirnova is an artist who uses thread like paint to create beautiful, impressionistic portraits and abstract designs.

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Skill Builder: Using an Awl to Sew Leather and Heavy Fabrics

Skill Builder: Using an Awl to Sew Leather and Heavy Fabrics

By Jeremy S Cook

Jeremy S Cook

Jeremy is an engineer with 10 years experience at his full-time profession, and has a BSME from Clemson University. Outside of work he’s an avid maker and experimenter, building anything that comes into his mind!

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Introduction If you think about tools that we use today that are passed down from ancient people, the knife, or possibly a modern version of the spear might come to mind. Lying somewhere between those two implements in the modern-day usefulness is the awl. Made out of bone in ancient times, the basic purpose of […]

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Smart Sewing Room: DIY Thread Hanger

Smart Sewing Room: DIY Thread Hanger

By Haley Pierson-Cox

Haley Pierson-Cox

Haley Pierson-Cox from Red-Handled Scissors is a maker of crafts, a lover of cats, an avid swearing enthusiast, a cross-stitch book author, and a general purveyor of quirk. She's also sometimes an irritable cartoon named Tiny Cranky Haley. https://www.redhandledscissors.com

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Wish your thread collection was always neat, pretty, and within reach? Well, that can certainly be arranged! Check out smart, useful, and downright lovely DIY thread hanger tutorial from Anna at Plan B! I love a good craft studio storage solution, don’t you?

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Sewing Tools: DIY Thread Spool Holder

Sewing Tools: DIY Thread Spool Holder

By Haley Pierson-Cox

Haley Pierson-Cox

Haley Pierson-Cox from Red-Handled Scissors is a maker of crafts, a lover of cats, an avid swearing enthusiast, a cross-stitch book author, and a general purveyor of quirk. She's also sometimes an irritable cartoon named Tiny Cranky Haley. https://www.redhandledscissors.com

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Looking for a smart way to organize spools of thread and bobbins for your next sewing adventure? Create a custom holder that’s perfect for organizing thread for either one project or your entire thread collection!

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