How-To: Condition and Dye Hemp Rope
Conditioned hemp rope is expensive, but Instructables user mcvarij shows you how. I never knew it was so involved, and yet simple!
Month: March 2009
How-To: Throw a Summer Soap Making Party
Debbie from Soapylove has put together a great video tutorial on throwing your own Summer Soap Making Party. I could see myself doing this for my kids and their friends this summer, either for a birthday or just having each kid bring a few dollars for supplies and make it a fun afternoon activity. The […]
Victoria Altepeter’s Metalwork Show
A fellow graduate student at Arizona State, Victoria Altepeter, is having her MFA show right now in Tempe, AZ. She makes amazing celestially-influenced works in metals, and her show just blew my mind. It’s up all week in the Harry Wood Gallery, but if you’re not local you can enjoy it through my Flickr set […]
MAKE Classified Ads and Maker Shed Giveaways
Gareth @Make: Online writes: We’re excited about our Make: MINImarketplace section, which premiered in MAKE, Volume 17. Got something cool you want to sell, have a service to offer fellow readers, looking for some precious widget that only another maker might have stashed away in the garage? The Make: MINImarketplace offers a place for you […]
Today is Ada Lovelace Day, celebrating women in technology
Today is Ada Lovelace Day, a day for celebrating women in technology: Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace was born on 10th December 1815, the only child of Lord Byron and his wife, Annabella. Born Augusta Ada Byron, but now known simply as Ada Lovelace, she wrote the world’s first computer programmes for the Analytical […]
Introducing Make: television Outreach
A little over a week ago, Make: television (with help from the Science Museum of Minnesota and Geek Squad) hosted the first-ever Make: Day. Heavily inspired by the many successful and amazing Maker Faires that MAKE magazine has hosted around the country world, Make: Day was a blast. And in case you missed the news, […]
Weaving on the Cheap
Check out this great tutorial, Weaving on the Cheap at Corus Tristis that really caught my eye. Corvus writes: Recently I decided to teach myself to weave, and to do so as cheaply as possible. Just about everything for the project was re/upcycled, from the yarn (old t-shirts) to the loom (scrap wood from building […]