HOW TO – Buy Fabric
Erin of A Dress a Day has some tips on how to buy fabric as well as some humorous excuses we can make to ourselves to buy even more fabric. (Because you know we all want more!) Link.
Year: 2007
Teach Knitting or Any Other Crafts via IM with One-Way Video Chat
Brian Sawyer at Hackszine shows us some cool tips on how we can optimize our iChat to send one-way video that’s perfect to teach crafting techniques such as knitting. Brian says: For example, crafts like knitting are notoriously hard to teach without visual cues, and even the most detailed books often suffer from their lack […]
Printable DIY Lens Hoods
Photojojo has a link to a DIY Lens Hood printable that lets you save yourself twenty bucks. Photojojo says, “Lens hoods, those round plastic rings that sit at the end of your SLR’s lens, are great at preventing lens flare and unwanted reflections when shooting in sunlight. Just look up your Canon, Nikon, Olympus, Pentax, […]
Mark on The Colbert Report tonight!
This is going to be funny, Mark Frauenfelder our editor-in-chief @ MAKE will be on the Colbert report. Rumor has it that Mr. Colbert wants to know why MAKE hates corporate America so much that we’d teach people how to make their own things instead of buying them from the corporations that make our country […]
Swatch Portraits
The Purl Bee has a great idea on how to use some of your great fabric to decorate your walls using embroidery hoops as frames. Link.
Craft Leftover Kits
Have you checked out the great blog Craft Leftovers? It’s run by Kristin Roach and it’s a blog that shares lots of projects you can make with the stuff you have leftover from other projects or just laying around the house. Kristin is creating a Craft Leftovers book and is selling kits to support her […]
BlackBerry Tips Round-Up
Dave Mabe, author of BlackBerry Hacks, has some new articles up at SmartPhoneToday: BlackBerry OS 4.1 Enhances Compose Screen – Link Berry 411 – Mobile Search For BlackBerry – Link Related BlackBerry Hacks –