Star Wars fairisle knitting patterns
The Star Wars fairisle patterns by Sarah Bradberry are a perfect embellishment to any sweaters or scarves you’ll be knitting soon for fall. Link.
Month: August 2006
Dye yarn with Kool-Aid
From the Knitty archives, here’s a fun way to dye your own yarn with Kool-Aid (yes that’s right). Kool-Aid dyeing works only on animal fibers: wool, mohair, and alpaca. It doesn’t work on cotton or synthetics, though, so use pure wool yarn for best results. Link.
Soap box car race in Germany (photos)
These appear to be photos from a soap box derby race in Germany, a couple nice high tech and low tech entries. Thanks Tom! – Link. Related: In MAKE 07 we have an article Spinout by Colin Berry – I don’t really want to say anything more than it’s pretty much one of my favorite […]
Hand-carved Blythe dolls
Check out these build photos of hand-carved recreations of the popular big eyed Blythe dolls. Thanks Coder.keitaro!- Link. Related: History of the Blythe dolls – Link. Other creepy cool doll projects – Link.
DSAmp – Control Winamp from you DS
Here you go, control Winamp with a Nintendo DS over Wi-Fi (source code included) – [via] – Link. Related: Tons of Winamp projects and articles- Link. DS projects, hacks, mods and homebrew – Link.
POSCH – Reusable shopping bags
Designer Luce Beaulieu of Montreal, Canada designs a product line called POSCH which are reusable shopping bags made from vintage bedsheets and pillowcases. The bags come in two models, one is a handbag and the other is an adjustable shoulder strap back that can allow for up to 40 lbs of groceries to be carried […]
HOW TO – Build an open source MIDI keyboard
Barry @ HeadFuzz writes – “This project details the steps to build your own Open Source (musical) keyboard which connects to a computer via USB and sends MIDI signals. This is achieved using an AN2131 development board. The AN2131 is now discontinued, so development boards can be bought cheaply on eBay. Alternatively you could use […]