We are huge fans of fabric designer Heather Bailey, so for sewing month, we’re going back to our pattern archives to showcase these adorable Bitty Booties by Heather Bailey (original post here). Sew these cute ‘lil things up in no time for a friend’s baby shower or fun baby gift. Use wool felt or fabric, […]
This nicely designed robot, the MakerBot Defender by Thingiverse user DemonDust doesn’t pack any electronics and apparently its mechanical parts don’t work as well as one would like, but it’s nicely designed and even comes with its own fictional back-story!
I love blogs where the author not only loves to craft, but loves to write. I want great projects, but they need well-crafted text and stunning photography. Enter SixAndAHalfStitches. This post about how she created a silk dress isn’t just a post, it’s a beautiful vignette about the author’s creative process. Oh, and btw, I’d […]
Bring the tunes as you ride with this simple solar-powered bike stereo, built into a milk crate by Matt Bosher in Tempe, AZ.
Jennifer Ackerman-Haywood of CraftSanity shares how to weave a yarn dandelion on a fork and turn it in to a brooch. Looks like it would be a fun project to try with kids!
BrittLiv writes: I’m going to show you how to make your own set of minesweeper pillows. I guarantee you that you will have a lot of fun, seeing your friends jump up after they made themselves comfortable on the wrong pillow. They use a little sound effect circuit embedded into the pillow, triggered when pressure […]
NPR reports on an amazing rare type of bee that creates delicate, colorful individual nests using flower petals and a papier-mache method. Building a nest takes a day or two, and the female might create about 10 nests in total, often right next to each other. To begin construction, she bites the petals off of […]
