How-To: Hanging Lantern Ghost
Cindy of Skip to My Lou shows you how to make this hanging lantern ghost for your Halloween decor using a plastic two-liter bottle and some liquid starch.
Month: October 2009
NYC big wheel race Saturday
With prizes for most original vehicle and best costume, I’m wishing I had heard about the NYC big wheel race a bit sooner…
Britex Fabrics Sale in SF, Monday October 12th
My favorite fabric store in San Francisco, Britex Fabrics (146 Geary Street, SF, CA. 94108) is having their huge fall sale where all fabrics, notions, and remnants are 30% off. I went last year to get fabric and supplies to make doggie Halloween costumes, and ended up getting a bunch of other great things for […]
Remaking PBS as a true educational network
Over on O’Reilly Radar, MAKE editor and publisher Dale Dougherty has a thought-provoking piece on remaking public broadcasting: Imagine a broadcast network in America that was dedicated to education, where the best educators had the opportunity to produce its programming, and where individuals as well as institutions could develop a new genre of wide-ranging educational […]
Cash awards for amateur scientific apparatus designs
In an effort to advance the cause of citizen science, Michael Wood is offering a total of $400 in prize money to anyone who can produce reliable, low-cost (<$100US) DIY scientific apparatus capable of meeting one of four design objectives:
Mah Jong Embroidery Pattern
Jenny Hart’s newly released book, Embroidered Effects, takes the easy-to-follow stitching instructions Jenny’s known for and pulls in new, more advanced stitches and design elements to help move stitchers to a new level. Where Jenny’s book Sublime Stitching: Hundreds of Hip Embroidery Patterns and How-To introduces basic stitches and provides dozens of very simple patterns, […]
72-hr Microchip Technology giveaway beta – GO!
Beginning at noon Pacific time today, October 9, and closing at noon Pacific time Monday, October 12, we will be accepting comments, below, describing the Halloween-y use (or uses) to which you would put the prize bundle consisting of one Microchip Technology PIC10F Cap Touch Demo Board and one MCP1650 Multiple White LED Demo Board. […]