How-To: Basic Tie Dye
The Crafty Chica’s 16 year-old daughter, Maya, did some tie dye this weekend, and she made this super awesome video describing the process. I’m so impressed with her video skills!
Year: 2009
Backyard Metal Casting
MAKE subscriber Pete Marchetto pointed us to this awesome site covering all manner of backyard metal casting. In fact, that’s its name: Backyard Metal Casting. Peter writes: Blame Kaden Harris. He got me onto this wonderful site describing many metal casting and metalworking projects. Okay, Kaden. It’s all your fault we’re posting this link. You […]
CRAFT Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
This week in the CRAFT Flickr pool we saw: Lynette Andreasen’s silver, gold, pearl, embroidery, and garnet necklace for the Heirlooms of the Future show, portrait easter eggs by user iZoo, chocolate Frank the bunny (from Donnie Darko) by user evilsigntist, and this dress made from Barbie clothes (with hair, too!) by user elizabeth n. […]
Helping a lost bot in NYC
Here’s a fun little social experiment. Its creator, Kacie Kinzer, explains: Tweenbots are human-dependent robots that navigate the city (NYC) with the help of pedestrians they encounter. Rolling at a constant speed, in a straight line, Tweenbots have a destination displayed on a flag, and rely on people they meet to read this flag and […]
Reversible Flowerpot Wrap Pattern
So September has a tutorial and pattern to make this reversible flowerpot wrap. [ via Whip Up ]
How-To: Make a Crinkle Baby Toy
When my daughter was was a baby, she absolutely loved anything she could play with that made a crinkle noise. She had a favorite small alligator toy that had one section of its body filled with some kind of crinkle material, and it was her go-to toy for ages. Somewhere along the way, the alligator […]
CRAFT weekly roundup
This week on the CRAFT blog we saw: Instructables Passover Guide Amazing Cut Paper Art of Michael Velliquette LilyPad Arduino Workshop in Berkeley This Summer The Coiled Basket Art of Carol Eckert