Creative Kismet wanted to make a non-girly travel pouch for her husband, but her fabric stash didn’t offer much that was appropriate–so she took matters into her own hands and made some potato-print fabric using Lotta Jansdotter’s book as inspiration. Great job! Related: CRAFT Pattern Podcast – Stencil Printing by Lotta Jansdotter
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Patrick writes – A lamp I designed and built out of various pipe materials I got from Home Depot. It has a water valve style dimmer switch. Video of the dimmer system coming soon! Well done! This could add an inviting yet appropriately industrial look to a workbench setup. […]
This Forbes.com article, A Blinking Fashion Statement, gives some nice publicity to the smart crafting movement and DIY wearable electronics: For all their talk of breaking glass ceilings, Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton have nothing on Leah Buechley. In the several years since she first sewed a circuit board to a T-shirt, the 31-year-old University […]
Art meets machine September 19-21 – What: ArtBots: The Robot Talent Show Where: Science Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin Friday, 19, noon-11pm: show open Friday, 19, 7pm & 8pm: Robotic musical performances by Ray Lee as part of Fringe Fest/Dublin Culture Night Saturday, 20, noon-8pm: show open Sunday, 21, noon-8pm: show open Sunday, 21, 6pm: ArtBots […]
Everything about this photo from Flickr user mame* is inspiring me right now. She used an ultra-soft vintage sheet to make this simple tunic-style blouse, which looks like the perfect layering piece for Fall. She used a pattern from this Japanese craft book to make it, but if you can’t find that book I’d bet […]
Tamie Snow shows you how to add embroidered details to your knitwear with a handy tutorial (complete with the hat pattern) on PimpStitch.
Here’s an idea that could be implemented ten ways to Sunday: a vented cat litter box. Alan Graham made one with a bathroom fan and some home automation gear. Check out his brief how-to on BoingBoing Gadgets, and follow his development in the TreeHugger forums. Via Hackaday.
