Month: June 2007

Crafty Daisies: Learn to Crochet Lesson #4

This week’s crochet lesson at Crafty Daisies will cover two very important techniques: increasing and decreasing. Homework will be working on this 4X4 wrist pouch designed by Catherine Lindsay. Link. Related: Crafty Daisies: Learn to Crochet Lesson #1 – Link. Crafty Daisies: Learn to Crochet Lesson #2 – Link. Crafty Daisies: Learn to Crochet Lesson […]

Homemade water sprinkler

Homemade water sprinkler

Have left over PVC pipes from all those marshmallow shooters? Make a sprinkler (just drill holes and attach to a hose) – Link. Related: Killer marshmallow gun – Link. From the pages of MAKE: HowToons. MAKE 02 – page 172. Make a marshmallow shooter. Subscribers–read this article now in your digital edition or get MAKE […]

Surf privately and anonymously with JanusVM

JanusVM is an open source VMware image that combines Ubuntu, Tor, dns-proxy-tor, Squid, Privoxy, and openvpn all into a convenient little package. Just load up the appliance in VMware and make a VPN connection to the virtual machine’s IP. Once you’ve connected, all of your traffic (including DNS) will be localy encrypted and anonymized over […]

Stitch Cleveland

Congrats to Knitgrrl Shannon Okey and her partners, fashion designer Megan Engelmann and couture seamstress Heidi Massingill in the opening of their new brick and mortar store, Stitch Cleveland! Stitch Cleveland (1387 Sloane Avenue in Lakewood, Ohio) is a workshop space in Cleveland where the ladies teach all things stitchy, including but not limited to […]