How-To: Food Safe Wood Dying
Simple dye recipe using ingredients from your kitchen! Make food safe toys for you pets.
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Experience over Entertainment
The nature of play is evolving in overdrive. For years, kids have been migrating away from the historical toy categories that made the industry an economic juggernaut. With the rise of mobile, interactive screenplay has pulled a lot of users away from analog toys. With their low cost, high production values, deep interactivity, and (of […]
Knitted Patrick Dempsey
If you’re a knitter who’s looking for a constructive way to express your affection for a certain celebrity, then why not take a page out of Tumblr user Knitted Patrick Dempsey’s book?
How-To: Insulate a Chicken Coop with Alpaca or Wool Roving
If you’ve got chickens and are lucky enough to have access to large quantities of (not fancy) alpaca or wool roving, you can turn that leftover fiber into wonderful natural winter insulation for your chicken coop!
Fiber Composite 3D Printing
Anyone that reads this site has probably heard of 3D printing, but the idea of printing fibers will be new to most. “The Bug” is a sort of composite fiber 3D printing machine. Instead of simply laying melted plastic (or other media) on top of itself, it lays fibers with a UV-cured resin on top […]
DIY Homemade Chop Sticks
Need something to keep yourself busy while you wait for the homemade ramen broth to cook? Why not whittle yourself a set of homemade chop sticks with a little scrap wood.
Sewing Tips: Sew a Baste Stitch
If you’re looking for a super-fast way to sew up side seams to check the fit of a muslin or a way to hold fabric pieces together for machine sewing that’s much flatter than pins, you’ll definitely want to get cozy with this helpful baste stitch tutorial!