How-To: T-Shirt Dress
This t-shirt dress won Threadbanger’s t-shirt recon contest, and it’s pretty cute and straightforward to make!
Year: 2009
How-To: Sew a Rolled Hem with a Serger
Nicole at Stitch Craft has a tutorial showing you how to sew a rolled hem with a serger. Nicole writes: A rolled hem is were the machine folds the fabric under a tiny bit and then stitches it. You will frequently see this around the edges of napkins and tablecloths but also on a lot […]
How-to: Whittle a ball-and-cage
Terry Trier has written a good tutorial on carving this classic whimsy from a single piece of wood.
Sewing Gatsby-Era Clothes
I am utterly charmed by this set of Gatsby-inspired dresses sewn by Nested for the Gatsby Summer Afternoon event in Oakland, California. The story of how and why she has sewn this small collection of dresses is inspiring in its ambition and dedication to a long-held dream of attending the Gatsby Summer Afternoon event. I […]
Atwood handmade tools: “small precious things”
Reader Billy Baque recently pointed me at the blog of knife- and tool-maker Peter Atwood, who seems to be living the Maker dream: Every week or so he makes up a run of one or two dozen of his carefully-designed pocket tools, posts them for sale on eBay, and announces it on his blog. They […]
Pressure sensitive computer keyboard
Pressure sensitive keys have been used in MIDI keyboards for a while now, but good ol’ qwerty keyboards seem to have missed out on the feature til now. Hardware developers from Microsoft’s Applied Science group built this prototype using membrane layers with resistive coating plus opamp board to convert the analog data over to USB. […]
Program Python in a web browser
Want to try your hand at a new programming language without the hassle of downloading and installing it? Well, now you can with Python thanks to Sculpt. The project is still in an early phase, but they note that they intend to support as much of the language as possible (and full source code is […]