The International Fiber Collaborative is seeing crafters to participate in their upcoming project. From the site: The goal of the International Fiber Collaborative is to provide an opportunity for people who enjoy working with crafts, whether professional artists, hobbyists or students to come together from all over the world to express their concerns about their […]
LuNaGirl on Craftster has an amazing tutorial showing you how to take an ordinary pair of pants and turn them into a stylish cropped bolero jacket. Link.
AJ writes – Hello all at Make… really love the site and the mag. I just recently made a Flickr set of a scan of an old Fallout Shelter brochure and a feature about fallout shelters from Life Magazine, Sept. 1961. I thought some of you might enjoy it. Thanks! Duck and Cover! – [via] […]
If you loved Crafty Daisies’ series on learning how to crochet, you’ll love there new online series starting today where you can learn the basics of embroidery. In this lesson find out all about the supplies you need and learn how to do the running stitch, back stitch, and split stitch. Link.
Here’s how to make a spiffy mood lamp from an IKEA lamp, source and schematics are included… – Link & translated site.
Philipp Lenssen of Google Blogoscoped is working on an upcoming book on Google Office: I’m happy to tell you I’ve started writing a book with O’Reilly’s Maker Media group, currently titled Google Office Hacks! The book will not focus on search, but on the existing & growing applications suite Google provides. It will provide tricks […]
Interesting solar water desalinator, but not in production yet it seems… – The Watercone is a solar powered water desalinator that takes salt or brackish water and generates freshwater. It is simple to use, lightweight and mobile. The technology is simple in design and use and is discribed by simple pictograms. With max. 1,6 liters […]
