Rachel McCollum’s “Graffelti”
Artist Rachel McCollum has taken her felt works to the streets with these installations, called Graffelti, in which she adhere’s her hand stitched felt pieces to public walls.
Year: 2013
CRAFT Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
Need some crafty inspiration? Here are some of the cool things we saw in the CRAFT Flickr Pool this week!
Mike Ross’ Big Rig Jig
There are some sculptures that are so unique and visionary, they’re hard to forget. Los Angeles-based artist Mike Ross‘ Big Rig Jig is one of them. Built in 2007, “Big Rig Jig is constructed from two discarded tanker trucks. The work serves both as a sculpture and an architectural space: visitors may enter the lower […]
How-To: Rolled Rosette Pillow
Turn an old t-shirt into a pretty piece of home decore with this rolled rosette pillow tutorial.
How-To: Patchwork Sock Yarn Recipe
Got stash? Use up all of those pretty little scraps of sock yarn with this versatile patchwork sock yarn recipe!
Aaron Vanderwerff Named “Inspirational Teacher of the Year”
Oakland’s Lighthouse Community Charter School is turning out some great young makers. If you attended Maker Faire this past week you might have run into Lighthouse students displaying a solar-powered scooter. (It started out as a go kart, but someone stole the chassis) and an EV truck project. The school’s teachers are no slouches either. This week one of the students’ instructors, Aaron Vanderwerff, was named “inspirational teacher of the year”
Sign Up Now for Maker Training Camps
Today, we offer you a new way of learning: Maker Training Camps. Training Camps are collaborative online courses specifically designed to make it easier to learn a new skill or build a specific project. Camps use Google hangouts and communities to make it easy to work with other students and teachers. Camps are generally between one and five weeks in length with a lecture, a project and optional office hours each week.