I’ve been hunting for the perfect pattern for knitting my first pair of socks, and this sporty striped peds pattern from Whit’s Knits on The Purl Bee is just the kind of simple start I’ve been looking for! Peds take the wonders of sock knitting and concentrate them down into one quick little project. Right […]
These are are just a few of architect and artist Gregg Fleishman’s amazing “panel puzzle” designs. To left, a 2002 chair called Nebula II, and to right, a timeline showing stages in the evolution of his 1979 Lumbarest design, the first prototype of which dates to 1975. Besides furniture, Gregg also designs buildings and model vehicles using a similar body of techniques.
By Glen Whitney for the Museum of Mathematics Although Math Mondays has featured mathematical clothing before, it turns out there is an entire subgenre of clothing and accessories featuring those indivisible nuggets of the arithmetical world, the prime numbers. These range from the most basic, a list of prime numbers on the front (and composites […]
I love the look of vintage needlepoint (especially needlepoint handbags!) from the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s, and wanted to try my hand at needlepoint myself. So I grabbed some plastic canvas, got to stitching, and soon realized: needlepoint is pretty easy!
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Keep little minds and little fingers occupied during long car trips and vacation downtime with this tangram travel puzzle tutorial from Delia at Delia Creates! [Via One Pretty Thing] More: How-To: Make a Tangram Puzzle @Craftzine.com blog How-To: Heart Felt Tangram Puzzle @Craftzine.com blog How-To: Giant Outdoor Twister Game @Craftzine.com blog How-To: Gnome Lawn Bowling […]
We’ve run a lot of paint chip projects here on Craft (see below), but Liz Apple’s rainbow wall of paint chips blows me away. It took 7 hours and more than 600 paint chips! (Via Poppytalk Handmade. More: How-To: Paint Chip Art Paint Chip Gift Decoration Embroidered Paint Chip Cards Giant Paint Chip Valentine
