Pink Chalk Studio made these colorful fabric covered switch plates. I love her technique for sewing an extra piece of fabric in the middle to keep the fabric lines clean when you glue the switch plate to the fabric. A great way to use up your fabric scraps! From the pages of CRAFT:01: CRAFT:01 – […]
Stitch Lounge and Bernina have a tutorial how to refashion an oversized t-shirt into a fitted boat neck number with cap sleeves and a waistband. Refashion t-shirt tutorial, via Burda Style
Craftster member artoo1121 created all of the members of the Fellowship of the Ring in crocheted amigurumi with detailed sculpey accessories. Gimli is my favorite. See more close ups of The Fellowship of the Ring amigurumi, via Snuffykin’s journal
This Sunday is Easter, so here are some MAKE-like activities involving eggs! Homemade easter egg anemometer. HOW TO – Easter Eggs dyed with onion skins. HOW TO – Make Ukrainian Easter Eggs. Laser-egg-etching. Egg art from Makers. Egg City. Naturally dyed Easter eggs. Electrocuting Peeps.
UK product designer Soner Ozenc makes these inaccurate, though attractive, Tetris mirrors. I remember learning to make glass mosaics with a scoring tool and the edge of a table, so certainly this effect could be achieved with those glass tiles from the hardware store. I think this makes a nice detail to the top of […]
Dave writes in to tell us about his LED color-shifting Guitar A bass guitar I made with LEDs that pulse and color shift while I play. The LED control is just a few programs and uses Pulse-width-modulation to control fading and color selections. You can use whatever you want to control these. This isnt really […]
Mark Rehorst and his son Alex had a Cub Scout cake auction fundraiser to attend, and decided to make something a little less traditional than a cake. Mark writes: I’ve had a few microbiology classes and cultured many different types of bacteria on different media, and I happened to have a case of pyrex Petri […]
