Year: 2011

May is Geek Crafts Month!

Welcome, Crafters – both to May and Geek Crafts Month! When we geek out on anything, whether it’s Star Wars or LEGO or plastic canvas, it means we love it with a special delight. And your trusty CRAFT contributors are delighted to dive into a whole month of geeky projects!

Sewing Spacesuits

Gizmodo recently posted an excerpt from Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo by Nicholas de Monchaux, and it’s got my crafty space geek heart racing. I have a bit of an obsession with spacesuits, and reading about the engineering behind them combined with delicate sewing techniques is truly fascinating. The most valued seamstresses were those like Roberta Pilkenton, […]