DIY Headband Holder
The Beauty Department shows us a great and easy way to organize all of those DIY headbands we have been making. I love a craft that keeps my home clutter-free AND enables me to keep making more headbands!
Month: May 2012
Mini Maker Faire Workshop Friday Before Maker Faire Bay Area
Love Maker Faire? Wish you could bring Maker Faire to your town? Come to the Mini Maker Faire Producers’ Workshop on Friday, May 18th, the day before Maker Faire Bay Area, and find out more about Maker Faire’s Mini Maker Faire program. This year there will be almost 60 Mini Maker Faires around the globe, […]
Straight Stitch Tutorial
Sometimes you really need help perfecting a basic craft technique to bring your skill-level up a notch. Luckily you can count on CRAFT’s own Haley from The Zen of Making to teach you such skills. For example, in this tutorial Haley teaches you how to make evenly spaced straight stitches for sewing, embroidery, and appliqué projects. Sweet!
How-To: Knock Down a Pallet with Simple Tools
If you don’t reclaim enough pallet lumber to justify a specialized prybar for the purpose, it is of course possible to knock down shipping pallets using everyday hand tools. But don’t pry – that’ll just split the wood. Instead, knock out the boards and nails from behind with a hammer. Or better yet, a pair of hammers. YouTuber miscpro shows us how it’s done.
Project: Recycled Cashmere Flower
Ah, cashmere, why are you so soft? The goat fiber is one of the most silky, fluffy, and delicious fibers I’ve ever worked with. I vigilantly scour thrift stores for cashmere sweaters, and then chop them up! I make wrist warmers, scarves and capelets with the body of the sweaters, but because I consider the […]
MAKE Asks: Your Favorite Building Material
Make: Asks is a new weekly column where we ask you, our readers, for responses to maker-related questions. We hope the column will spark interesting conversation and that we’ll get to know more about each other.
This week’s question: What is your favorite building material, and why?
Cabinet Made Out of Reused Plastic Crates
A clever and beautiful reuse of plastic industrial crates: making an awesome storage system! Created by Mark van der Gronden, the “crates cabinets” are sold by Lensvelt. The series of cabinets, Krattenkast (crates cabinet), is a simple design concept: a steel frame with multicoloured, second hand crates, which act as drawers in the steel construction. […]
