Winners of the CRAFT Facebook Giveaway
Congrats to these three lucky ladies from CRAFT’s Facebook fan pool, who’ve each won our drawing for a free copy of CRAFT, Vol. 10!
Year: 2009
Handmade Nation panel this Wednesday
For those of you in the NYC area, check out this panel of great people talking about art, craft and design! Faythe Levine and Cortney Heimerl, Co-Authors of “Handmade Nation,” join American Craft Editor-in-Chief Andrew Wagner and KnitKnit’s Sabrina Gschwandtner from 7-9pm, February 11, 2009 at Powerhouse Arena in Brooklyn. rsvp@powerhousearena.com
CRAFT: 10 Celebrate! On Newsstands Today!
CRAFT Magazine vol. 10 hits the newsstand today with the theme “Celebrate!”. Funny-lady Amy Sedaris graces this party-themed issue where we feature instructions to help you create the perfect mixtape for any party, make a keepsake wedding book, design beautiful invitations, and make customized plates and coasters, fancy hats, party cakes and cake toppers — […]
Lost Knowledge: Reanimating Dead Media
This is our new weekly column exploring the possible technology of the future in the forgotten ideas of the past (and those slightly off to the side). Each Tuesday, we’ll look at retro-tech, “lost” technology, and the make-do, improvised “street tech” of village artisans and tradespeople from around the globe. “Lost Knowledge” is also the […]
Making Valentines Day Charm Bracelets
I spent Saturday morning with my girls making Valentine’s Day charm bracelets at the Home Ec department of the new Reform School store in Silverlake. Laura Stokes-Estrada of Charcoal Designs taught the class with aplomb.
Flashback: Crafty Fabric Masterpiece
CRAFT Volume 02 hit newsstands back in January of 2007, and one of the featured major projects was the above-pictured lovely “Crafty Masterpiece” by Tricia Mills Gray. And oh-so-crafty it is! Ironically, Trish never fancied herself a “crafter,” per se, but rather was just coming up with a solution to a problem. You see, Trish […]
Google PowerMeter
This is new… google has a hardware based “Google PowerMeter prototype” with demo project… No hardware shots yet… The twittering power meter that Limor and I made uses the app engine, maybe they’ll add it. Anyone at google interested? http://www.ladyada.net/make/wattcher/index.html http://wattcher.appspot.com/history?user=adawattz@gmail.com http://wattcher.appspot.com/ http://twitter.com/tweetawatt