Year: 2011
Stitched Pencil Cup
I love when people find inspiration to stitch on everyday objects that weren’t necessarily intended for stitchery. Camilla of Family Chic transformed an inexpensive IKEA pencil cup with some yarn and a tapestry needle. It’s fun to play with different stitches and design, and would be easy to unthread and change out when you get […]
Titanoboa Meets eatART’s Mondo Spider
Vancouver-based makers eatART have been working away at their most recent creation, Titanoboa, a 50 ft mechanical snake. They displayed the work-in-progress at this year’s Vancouver Mini Maker Faire, and it’s come a long way.
MAKE Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
I had a sense, as early as Tuesday, that it was going to be a yellow kind of week, and sure enough, the MAKE Flickr pool has proved it out. And though yellow has lots of negative connotations, it happens to be my favorite color, probably because it reminds of me construction equipment and power tools. Oh, and flowers. I have credible reports from people who have actually seen nature that flowers are sometimes yellow, too.
CRAFT Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
Here are some cool things we saw in the CRAFT Flickr Pool this week: Smile, by itchinstitchin Needle Felted Morton the Monkey with Banana, by *brynne Dress-Up Octopus, by hine Steampunked Nerf Gun, by Cation Designs yellow submarine, by * Rezinha *
How To: Framed Pinecones
This project from Craftaholics Anonymous brings nature indoors during this time of year, making your house festive without the overuse of the traditional greens and reds. These framed pinecones are an alteration of another framed pinecone project posted several years ago. Give it a try. And you can keep it up year round, just change […]
How-To: Shisha Stitching on Temari
Shisha stitching and temari are two crafts I find beautiful and exotic and just a tiny bit daunting. Thanks to some very thorough and well done tutorials from Pam at Gingerbread Snowflakes, though, I’m thinking now more than ever is the holiday season to try my hand at these skills. That she’s combined them in […]
