Purl Soho is selling this great convertable backpack/tote pattern by Liesl+Co. You can buy the pattern by itself for $15 or for $24 with accompanying antique gold or silver hardware. See more photos of the bag on designer Liesl’s blog, Distressed. Link.
SCA Scot writes – Sara’s uncle Don is a bit of a tinkerer. So, when you’ve got a small-block 400, a trailer, assorted parts and the ability to custom fabricate a 6-inch tall replica of a blender blade out of stainless steel, what do you do with your spare time? Make the world’s fastest margarita […]
Garth of Extreme Craft has an interesting follow up story to the quilters of Gee’s Bend and the person who discovered them, Bill Arnett. Garth writes: Quilter Annie Mae Young, who created some of the most iconic works to come out of Gee’s Bend, filed a lawsuit last week aimed at Bill Arnett and his […]
Wow, this Tesla coil can play music, it even plays some Super Mario action … The site/maker says This is a solid-state Tesla coil. The primary runs at its resonant frequency in the 41 KHz range, and is modulated from the control unit in order to generate the tones you hear. Singing Tesla Coil – […]
Goooooood morning Makers, it’s time to make soap… from bacon, with the latest episode of New Know How – Soap can be made from just about any kind of fat. Even though fat from bacon, called lard, isn’t the finest of fats to use for making soap, it somehow seemed to be the most exciting. […]
This is neat, the Google solar panel project shows much much power they’ve slurped from the Sun and the equivalent kilowatt-hours… In the last 24 hours, Google produced 9,900 kilowatt-hours of electricity from the sun. In October 2006, Google announced a commitment to solar energy production and launched the largest solar panel installation to date […]
Very clever way of solving those crazy mazes… using Photoshop – [via] Link.
