Kath at Whip Up is having a quilt-along for her book Whip Up Mini Quilts. See our review for her beautiful quilting book where Kath also shares with us some great quilting tips. Kath writes: Each Friday for 6 weeks [more or less] – I am going to post one of the quilts from the […]
Simon Jansen, he of Star Wars ASCIImation, the TARDIS MAME console, Beer Brewing Bender fame, was recently inspired by the 1920s “Plus Four Wristlet Route Indicator” that he’d sent us the link to some weeks back. He decided to try and build one. I made my own version, using some brass bits and pieces, a […]
Princeton Architectural Press has done it again, producing a book that is as beautiful and tactile as it is thought-provoking and educational. BEE, by artist and photographer Rose-Lynn Fisher, is basically a photo gallery of scanning electron microscope photographs of bee anatomy. The pictures, ranging in magnification from 10x to 5000x, are stunning, and by […]
The ever-industrious Jeri Ellsworth shows you how she made her own electroluminescent (EL) wire using enameled magnet wire, bare copper wire, and EL phosphors. And don’t forget the rubber cement coating when you’re done so that you don’t shock the Dickens out of you. EL Wire Made at Home – The Currency of Burning Man
From designer Aristide Antonas. More pictures in his Flickr set. [Thanks, Billy Baque!]
It’s a great honor for me to be able to use this Maker Birthdays forum to offer up an entry-day shout-out to one of my favorite living makers, Jeri Ellsworth. If ever there was someone for whom the fire for making appears to have been blazing since birth, it’s Jeri. She seems to live for […]
This is how I like my embroidery. It is an elaborate piece of pop culture art, has unfinished ends, and the message is potent. Every single piece of sewing RosieG does is just lovely. She celebrates typography by stitching famous quotes and creates very cool illustrations with thread.
