Some of the CRAFT folks will be at the Bazaar Bizarre Holiday Show in San Francisco this weekend. We have a booth! I’ll be there Saturday afternoon, working on a pair of knitted Striped Fingerless Mitts. Come by and say hello! Click to add an event to the online calendar Click on the jump to […]
By Katie Goodman adapted from Desserts 4 Today I thought I’d share with you a really great recipe from a new cookbook that I love: Desserts 4 Today, by Abby Dodge. This is an excellent dessert cookbook for holiday entertaining. Each of the 125 recipes in Abby’s new book have only 4 ingredients each (all […]
My colleague Sean Ragan recently discovered that rather than pay for Shapeways’ colorized outputs, it was easier, cheaper, and more durable to buy the basic white and colorize it with a marker. The cheapest and, reportedly, strongest material in which Shapeways models are available is called “White, strong and flexible.” I herein report that this […]
As we get our presents ready to wrap, I love going to John Boak’s web site, Wrap Art where he comes up with the most ingenious ways to use trash to wrap gifts. This tree wrapping above is made up large paper from a marketing flyer, a green web wine bottle sleeve, red metallic shopping […]
My sister-in-law hosted a baby shower this weekend and the hostesses made these Rice Krispie treats on a stick dipped in white chocolate. With some baby-themed ribbon and SweetTarts, the souvenir was complete. What kind of handmade gifts do you include at events like baby and wedding showers?
For our second project in the Make It Last Build Series, we’re constructing a robotic plant. This week, we’ll build a papercraft flower to sit on top of the metal stalk that we built last week. Combined with the plant brain and metal stalk, that we have constructed in the previous weeks, we’ve got all […]
Here’s a neat panorama of my craft studio, taken by Nathan Rosenquist. He snapped at least 30 photos from the center of the room and then used some image stitching software to assemble the image. Check it out full size on my Flickr.
