Ruth of Wooly Wormheads Ripping Yarns has her technique of creating spiral knit hats up on her blog. Each spiral takes just about 5 to 20 minutes to make and t’s a great way to get rid of odd bits of yarn in your yarn stash. To make this green hat here it took about […]
Neat, here’s how to make your own fortune cookies, Annw writes – “Long the delicious denouement to a night of eating Chinese food, fortune cookies are surprisingly easy to make at home. Get creative with your words and create funny, silly, flirtatious, or hopeful fortunes. These cookies are good for parties and personalized gifts.” – […]
Cereallad @ Craftster made a functional boombox messenger bag for his iBook, he writes – “Basically I hollowed out the boombox, added hinges and clasps, created a foam interior, created a strap attachment, and… well, attached a strap. Now it holds my ibook and one or two other books. With rudimentary electronics skills, I wired […]
Here’s how to make a simple LED flashlight made from a few basic components housed in an inkjet printer cartridge – Link.
Trazy Anderson has an amazing photo @ 94x magnification of velcro, taken with Nikon SMZ1500 Stereomicroscope [via] – Link. Related: More Microscopy photos – Link. Microscopy photo pool – Link. Poor man’s macro – Link. Science pool – Link.
Houdini writes – “…Knowing nothing about how to do tiles mosaic and where to by the stuff, I started to do some searchs on google image to find an appropriate drawing to convert into mosaic. With a bit of luck I knew I could find one that will exactly fit my wills : not too […]
Check it out, TheThompsonFive made the workbench from our “weekend projects” video podcast! – Link. Related: Make Podcast: Weekend Projects – Make a Workbench – Link.
