There’s nothing more fun when you’re a kid at a birthday party and there’s a pinata. Of course whoever gets this big zebra pinata will be raking in the major candy stash. Judy at GoodyBlog points us to Pinata Boy’s site, where this Chemistry professor and comic book author gives you the whole step-by-step process […]
This week’s CRAFT Pattern Podcast is this stylish crochet cuff by Alicia Kachmar of Create! This fashionable treble square cuff is a quick project that you can make in an hour or less! You’ll need 2 colors of yarn of similar weight — one as the main color and contrasting or complementary color for the […]
Gareth at MAKE writes- We’ve mentioned Leah Buechley on the blog before. She’s a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Colorado who does some really innovative things with soft circuits, LED clothing, and other geek couture. She writes of her most recent projects, the LilyPad: e-textile construction kit version 2.0 There is […]
The Bazaar section of CRAFT: 04 features my review of Betz White’s Cup O Joe kits. Here’s a picture of my final Cup O Joe pincushion that is looking especially sweet in stripes. This kit is fantastic because you have everything you need to make the pincushion from materials to instructions sitting pretty in a […]
Makers and Crafters, it’s time to enter our 2nd annual ghoulishly fun Halloween contests! Anyone, anywhere, can enter all or just some of the contests. We’ll have lots of updates and posts regarding all these, but this announcement is to get you started and planning. We’re calling this year’s contests DIY HALLOWEEN. Last year’s were […]
Curly Purly has a free knitting pattern to make this cute pumpkin! Link.
The first time I tried this, it didn’t work. It was frustrating, but I just went through my materials, blued the razor blade and it worked. The second time I tried to get it to work, I couldn’t get a station, I just got buzz. I played with everything and finally figured out that the […]
