How-To: Simple Wooden Tops
Kleas shows you how to make your own simple wooden tops using wooden wheels and dowels, a pencil sharpener, paint, and sandpaper. A fun toy to make in less than 10 minutes! [via The Crafty Crow]
Month: February 2011
French Knot Masterpiece
As an embroidery geek, I am a huge fan of the French Knot. Nothing gives quite the satisfaction as that little coil and pull through the fabric and then *plink* French Knot action. Yuko Uemura of Pata Pri News must share my French Knot fascination, because she spent weeks doing nothing but stitching loads of […]
Getting Started with Arduino Book Giveaway
In celebration of our new Make: Arduino page, we’re giving away five copies of Massimo Banzi’s popular book Getting Started with Arduino. This rockin’ little book serves as the perfect introduction to Arduino and even to high-tech making/tinkering in general. To be eligible for the drawing, click here and enter your comments on the theme […]
Crochet Puppet Scarf
This Crochet Puppet Scarf is seriously adorable. I know what my niece is getting for her birthday!
Insulated Canteen From No-Refill Propane Bottle
Cool Instructable from user hpstoutharrow. Of course these propane bottles are not meant to be opened, so you have to be careful to follow a sensible procedure, but it seems to me like hpstoutharrow has done a good job in providing that. Commenters there seem to agree.
Once any residual flammable gas is safely vented, both valves are removed by drilling, and the bottom of the bottle is cut out to insert a 20 oz plastic beverage bottle, which has been shrunk slightly by exposure to boiling water. The neck of the soda bottle protrudes where the tank’s center valve was, and is secured there with an o-ring. Spray-in foam insulation holds the liner in place and insulates its contents from the metal bottle, and the bottom of the tank is reattached for appearance’s sake. [via Hack a Day]
Basic Blacksmithing on CRAFT (video)
In this week’s CRAFT Video, Meg Allan Cole and I took a trip to Brooklyn’s She-Weld studio for a special blacksmithing lesson from Alex Himmelbaum. He showed us how to taper and decoratively curl the end of a steel rod and rivet it to a hammered backplate. It’s the burliest paper towel holder we’ve seen, […]
Blacksmithing With Meg
In today’s Craft video I had the pleasure of blacksmithing with Alex Himmelbaum.
