BurdaStyle Scrap Fabric Projects
Burda Style has a great roundup of sewing projects made from all those fabric scraps you’ve been collecting!
Year: 2011
Meet The Makers: Sung Kim
Sung Kim’s father gave him his first skil saw when he was just seven years old. His mother provided him with modeling clay as a safer alternative not long after that. Sung’s grandfather-in-law, ship builder Dean Stevens, left him a coveted collection of hand tools decades later. These influences shaped his abilities as a woodworker, but his desire to create sound formed him into a Maker.
Granny Stripe Blanket
I love this modern take on the granny square with The Purl Bee’s new pattern to make a granny stripe blanket. The photo above is a great detail shot showing the different color options but I love the idea of even making the stripes closer together and having a shade of lovely colors to add […]
Skill Builder: Your Own SpinScooter
Our friends RadBrad and KoolKat, from Atomic Zombie, posted this cool SpinScooter build on Make: Projects. Besides the fact that it requires welding (if you can do this, maybe a friend can), it’s fairly simple project, and the result is a wacky mutant bike build that would is a challenge to ride and to master. […]
Denim Do-it-All Bins
Repurposing with denim is a natural. Who doesn’t have an extra pair of jeans lying around that are outgrown, out of fashion or worn out in some way? Put that denim to good use by making up a few Denim Do-it all Bins.
Math Monday: Microscopic Fractals
By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics We have seen various ways to make the Sierpinski tetrahedron in a past Math Monday column, but here is a new one. A direct laser writing process was used to produce this polymer tetrahedron, which is just 100 microns tall—the thickness of a hair. This remarkable object […]
Proto Labs’ $100K Prize Aims to Help Makers
Proto Labs, the "world's fastest custom manufacturer of prototype and low-volume parts" is awarding $100,000 worth of their services to help inventors and creators develop their projects: In 2011 we will award $100,000 in Firstcut CNC machined and/or Protomold injection molded parts to somebody—or more than one person—with a cool idea for a product.