I just returned from a few action-packed days at the Craft and Hobby Association’s Winter 2009 Convention and Trade Show. CHA’s focus this year was introducing indie crafts to its members. On-hand to discuss this movement were the biggies: Faythe Levine of “Handmade Nation” fame, Kathy Cano-Murillo a.k.a. Crafty Chica, Leah Kramer of Craftster, and […]
Design Sponge has a fun tutorial showing us how to use fabric stiffener to create these attractive and useful organizer boxes from fabric.
I love buying fat quarters of fabric since it’s the perfect size to experiment with–enough fabric to make a project or two, but not so much that it will sit around your house taking up room. So I love that We Wilsons has a great purse tutorial up that uses exactly one fat quarter. [via […]
Bre writes – I recently met Greg Marra at ROFLthing. He is doing awesome work at Olin College. I found this sweet video of a stingray automaton that he and his team made in a rapid prototyping class. I asked him some questions about how it works, he got back to me and brought me […]
I’ve been a fan of Wool and Water’s shop for quite a while, and this gorgeous paper doll set they’ve just come up with for Valentine’s Day has made me feel the love all over again. What a wonderfully offbeat gift this would make on February 14.
Instructables user Weissensteinburg made this raft by collecting plastic bottles for pontoons, and shows you how to make your own, too.
Lisa from The Little Red Blog of Revolutionary Knitting got hit by a pickup truck while riding her bike so she started working on a sharrow sweater. Sharrows are the arrows used on roadways to mark a bicycle route, but apparently they don’t paint sharrows in LA where she lives. I can’t wait to see […]
