MAKE’s photo editor Sam Murphy sent us this great photo she recently took in Vienna. She writes: I was on a lightning trip with my fiance and his parents in Germany for my soon-to-be family reunion. We were in Germany mostly, but we hopped on the train to Prague and Vienna. These were the horse […]
I love cupcakes, and I love baking, so I’m not quite sure why I had never actually tried to make cupcakes. My mini muffin tin holds tea lights. I didn’t even own a regular-sized muffin tin. But my favorite cupcake place, Love at First Bite, is across the San Francisco Bay in Berkeley, and I just don’t get there that often. That’s probably a good thing for my waistline, but nonetheless, I jumped at the chance to try out the Cupcake Kit by Elinor Klivens from Chronicle Books.
Kate Pruitt posted a clever Notebook Lunchbag tutorial on Design*Sponge. She used striped canvas fabric and a sewn red line to replicate the look of notebook paper and then wrote a sweet little message on it in black fabric pen.
Jo Anne from Crafting For Cheapskates shares how she created this reverse painting on the glass from a thrifted picture frame. She details how you need to start with the image highlights and work up in layers to create the final effect. I love her zombie, but the technique could be applied to a variety […]
Designer Florian Kräutli is working on this rug with embedded conductive threads that, when walked upon, use the stepper’s body as an antenna for a connected radio. Via Fashioning Technology.
There’s a few more spaces left for Yarn School (Oct 1-4) and Felt School (Oct 5-6) taught by Nikol Lohr and Shannon Okey respectively. The location is at Nikol’s Harveyville Project, 2 former schoolhouses transformed into workshop and living/studio spaces in Harveyville, KS. I love the idea of this retreat for intense learning as well […]
Cathe at Just Something I Made has found a way to extend the life and use of a beloved vintage quilt by scanning it in to her computer and using it in several different craft projects. Above, she’s printed the scanned quilt on ink-jet iron on paper and applied it to thrifted leather remnants. She […]
