How-To: Make Cut Apart Felt Food
The American Felt and Craft blog has a tutorial and patterns for making felt food that can be cut apart and put back together again, a fun activity for children who want to practice cooking skills in a safe way.
Month: June 2009
How-To: Make Your Own Deodorant
To follow up her tutorial on DIY shampoo, Sarah James comes back at us with this easy recipe for making your own deodorant. More: Homemade Shampoo
Clothes dryer chicken coop
Saw a piece on the news last night about the increase in urban chicken coops. Here’s one quick n’ dirty way of creating a coop for your birds. Just make sure some wiseguy doesn’t plug it in to see if it still works. Clothes Dryer Chicken Coop
Spinning sounds with the Servo Seq
Gijs Gieskes introduces another intriguing musical machine, the opto-sensing multi-armed Servo Seq – The frequency circles speed can be set with a pot on the controller. The arms can be sequenced with the three buttons on the controller, in combination with the joystick.. If the joystick is moved up, the volume will go up for […]
How-To Tuesdays: Fabric Scrap Necklace
At my shop, we save pretty much every bit of scrap fabric. We can always find a use for it, whether it’s for practice stitching by Sewing 101 students, as furoshiki-style wrapping, or to tie up half-yard cuts of fabric. I’ve seen a lot of fun fabric jewelry on craft blogs lately, and with so […]
Library of strange compounds
George Pendle wrote the highly-recommended Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons, the biography of rocket pioneer Jack Parsons (whom I profiled in MAKE, Volume 13). In Saturday’s Financial Times, George writes about the Materials Library at King’s College, London. Deep in the bowels of a brutalist concrete building on the […]
DIY Monogram Stationery
Sarah Hodsdon re-gifted me a Cricut at Maker Faire last month and I’m excited to test it out sometime soon. Mrs. Penguin on Weddingbee has a great tutorial on how to create your own monogram stationery using the Cricut Expression — a great way to DIY your own Save the Dates, invitations, thank you cards, […]
