The only thing that Betz White’s Toadstool Rain Bucket Hat are missing is a pair of these clever recycled plastic bag rain boots. Louie Rigano of the RISD Waste for Life studio designed these as a sustainable product that could be made by cartoneros, impoverished folks living in Buenos Aires, Argentina, who make a living […]
Our pals at Jigsaw Renaissance are looking for new members so they can afford a new hackspace. Director Willow Brugh sent us the following: Jigsaw is a group of multi-disciplinary individuals with a desire to educate themselves and others. We band together to share space, tools, ideas, and motivation. It doesn’t matter who you are […]
Brett Bara shows you how easy it is to make your own duvet cover in her sewing 101 column on design*sponge.
iHannah shares how to add a custom cover to your sketchbook or notebook with decoupage and embellishments and includes a little corner pocket for stashing stickers and notes.
Hppy St Ptrck’s Dy! I hope you’re wearing green! I actually made it out to my car this morning in an outfit devoid of any green, and then the little girl down the street ran up to talk to me, and I realized what day it was. She was all decked out in various shades […]
By Jamie Marie Chan After I watched Becky Stern’s Ask Craft video about plying yarns, I was inspired to try plying some of my scrap commercial yarns together. Plying is simply twisting two or more single threads together, traditionally in the opposite direction from which they were spun. Plying puts more strength into a yarn, […]
So I’m crowd-sourcing the problem. Is there a specialist in the house who knows something about explosive polymerization? And if so, can you tell me: What is the polymerization analog of a small firecracker? Some kind of diminutive goo-bomb that will go off impressively but without injuring bystanders or spraying horrible toxins everywhere? If you can help me come up with a reasonably safe system, I’ll make it happen. I’ll even sign a waiver first.
