Katy of No Big Dill shares this cute pattern for making a “Very Biased Skirt” that uses strips of bias-cut fabric to create gorgeous layers on the skirt. It’s show in kid-size, but I think it could work great on an adult as well! [via Happy Together]
Here’s a neat video rendition of Tom Lehrer’s Elements Song, by Joe Sabia.
The new MintyBoost USB Charger Kit v3.0 in the Maker Shed works with the new Apple iPod nano mult-touch (and makes a nice wristwatch).
Congratulations to Meghan from Elk Grove, CA, Danielle from San Jose, CA and Helen from Montreal, Canada each winning a copy of the book, The Art of Metal Clay by Sherri Haab in our recent giveaway. Thanks to everyone who entered!
It has no display, and that’s not a stylus–it’s a pen. So you can write important numbers on the paper card pictured, left, and snap it into the clear display pocket on the phone’s back. Available in five subdued colors from John’s Phone, of the Netherlands. I’m tempted. [via Boing Boing]
Congrats to Anna Hrachovec on her first solo show, we love her knitted creations so! Stop by gallery hanahou in NYC to check it out. In her first solo show, craft artist Anna Hrachovec stretches the possibilities of knitting as a medium to create an expansive and wacky landscape installation. Crash-landed aliens, rat-infested skyscrapers, giant […]
I love how Kelly of Ever Kelly took some simple and inexpensive craft store supplies and turned them in to customized cute cuckoo clocks. Now, to be honest, as much as I love cuckoo clocks, the tick-tock sound is very distracting for me. (Not to mention an hourly chime!) These are quiet, display-only birds. [via […]
