Letterpress look without a letterpress
Prismera has a neat tutorial on getting the look of a letterpress by using hot glue and a burnisher – pretty labor-intensive but neat!
Month: August 2008
Camilla Engman Rub-On Decals
Bloesem tips us off to the new set of rub-on decals available from Third Drawer Down, which feature the art of Camilla Engman.
HOW TO – Eclipse Socks
The fourth installment in author Stephenie Meyer’s “Twilight” series of books came out on August 2, selling over a quarter of a million copies over the course of the weekend. Wow! If you love the teen vampire books and knitting, Shiny Knits has created a stylish sock pattern inspired by the cover of the third […]
5 in 5: Day 5
The final day of 5 in 5 was happy-dirty, telepathic, deliciously chilly, retro-reflective, recursively meta, southwardly mobile, ephemerally illustrated, dubiously conversant, cartographically challenging, mixed, mashed and lovingly recycled. Andrew Schneider was our final Guest Star and meta-chronicled the waning day of five. As promised, the fivers headed to Odessa where their personal bartender concocted the […]
Free Pattern – Vaasa Gauntlets
Danielle Kassner designed these beautiful Finnish tapestry crochet gauntlets inspired by a sweater in the Ostrobothnian Museum in Vaasa, Finland. The pattern is available for free on Black Purl Magazine. via Lime & Violet.
DIY: LED Matrix “Fancy LED’s”
This would be a great project for anyone interesting in learning about PIC programming. I really like the graphical interface for designing your own patterns. You can download the schematics and source code form the website. The idea of this project came from my youngest son. He was dreaming of a small tool able to […]
Results from the electric junk guitar workshop
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Ranjit’s workshop seems to have gone very well – some great sounds can be heard from these resulting instruments. Time for a handmade jam! From the pages of MAKE: MAKE:09 p.115 Strung Out – make a one-string electric guitar