Use Fabric Selvedge for Knitting
Miriam Dema made this luscious flame-colored scarf using fabric selvedges leftover from another project, mixed in with a little black vintage yarn for good measure. It looks really nice, and uses recycled materials!
Month: September 2008
Briefcase PA system
Great idea for your next guerilla lecture tour, a public-address system in a box – runs on C batteries! The built-in sound system has a 20-watt amplifier and dual, 4″ speakers that produce crisp sound from the briefcase’s front panel, ensuring crystal clear orations. The 14″ by 15″ lectern props up the briefcase and easily […]
HOW TO – Easy Album Cover Wall Organizers
Paper and Stitch shows us how to whip up these fun and colorful Easy Album Cover Wall Organizers. I see so many attractive album covers at the thrift store (which more often than not, contain scratched-beyond-recognition records), so I love finding attractive and useful ways to recycle them.
Mecum recycled notebooks
Bobby over @ Kitsune Noir happened upon these little recycled notebooks from OrangeArt Stationary – Mecum translates to “Let’s Go!”, and features not only recycled paper, but the leather cover is recycled as well. As you can see it comes in both a natural and black (hot!) version. Other than the leather cover they’re pretty […]
Skateboard staircase
Ted crafted a fitting set of stairs for his skateboard deck building school – This is a set of steps I made for our skateboard school. The aluminium beam is a solid billet of aluminium and the decks were custom made with concave only on one edge. You should see the look on our students […]
Yarn Cursor
Jonah @ MAKE writes: ”Hyperlink” is series of large needlepoint canvas and yarn sculptures of the typical hand icon that your cursor changes into when you hover over a link on any web page. The set consists of 4 of the large hands by the artist Ben Fino-Radin who is known for his remakes of […]
Odd bikes
Nice collection of odd bikes… via Land-o-Links.
