HOW TO – Knitted Wave Blanket
Spotted at WhipUp: Loop Knits shares the pattern for this gorgeous knitted wave blanket–I love the summery rainbow shades of yarn they used.
Month: August 2008
Build a Brain Machine with Mitch Altman in Providence, RI
Mitch Altman (inventor of the TV-B-Gone and Brain Machine) will be at AS220 to teach any and all how to make their own Brain Machine. If you’re in or near Providence, this is a great opportunity to make something intriguing and fun, while learning from the (in)famous inventor. The Brain Machine is something anyone can […]
Burger Cookies
File under “food that looks like other food”: these burger-shaped cookies are made from Nilla wafers and York peppermint patties. Learn to make them on the justJENN recipes blog. Related: • Burger Cakes • Fabric Burger and Fries Lunch
Recycled Juice Bag to Pencil Bag
Cindy of Skip to My Lou recycled her kids’ Caprisun juice bags and sewed them into a zippered pencil bag for her son’s first day of school.
Dust houses
Maria Adelaida Lopez put herself through art school by cleaning houses, her project(s) include these dust houses made from lint and vacuum cleaner fuzz… via Land-o-links.
Converting gas-powered cars to electric
Converting gas-powered cars to electric @ CNN… Larry Horsley loves that he doesn’t buy much gas, even though he drives his ’95 Chevy S-10 back and forth to work each day. Horsley, a self-described do-it-yourselfer, simply plugs his truck into an electric wall outlet in his Douglasville, Georgia, garage and charges it overnight, instead of […]
MAKE Projects – Volume 9
In each volume of MAKE we have “major projects” these project pages are meaty step-by-step articles with start-to-finish photos, precise instructions and how-to learning that can range from making a VCR cat feeder to ariel kite photography. In MAKE volume 9 the projects are: Project: The Bullwhip by William Gurstelle. You don’t have to be […]