I had a great time visiting some of my favorite thrift stores in metro Detroit this weekend. I picked up some great craft supplies, including a lot of fantastic vintage sewing patterns. My favorite has to be this 1964 Barbie doll offering from McCall’s. Not only could you make some evening outfits for Barbie, Ken […]
Denise of Yummy Pancake takes geekery to a whole new level with these crochet Tie Fighters. Each one incorporates a different granny square pattern! These pieces are for the Stitch Wars Strikes Back show in Lauderhill, FL. Oh, for a plane ticket right about now.
What some of you may not know about Make: Projects is that it’s a full wiki platform, able to handle long-form articles and tutorials, not just step-by-step projects. In celebration of the robot theme here on the site, and the new robot issue of the mag (MAKE Volume 27), we’ve built out the Robotics section of the Make: Projects platform.
Footwear always seems like one of those things that I really should be able to make for myself. But, every time I get the urge to try, I realize that durable, grown-up footwear is something that is probably best left up to the experts. Baby shoes, however, definitely seem more within reach! These baby boy […]
Jenny at Craft Test Dummies is getting a jump on back-to-school crafting by making up a batch of backpack zipper pulls. She used formica samples from her local home improvement store and added a combination of paint and decoupage. I love the Star Wars design here! And she has lots of other styles to share, […]
By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics We looked at playing card constructions before in this column, but this one by Nick Sayers is impressively intricate. The 270 playing cards each have four slits, and lock together like the classic IQ Lamp. Each card is forced into a curved form because it locks with […]
By Andrew Lewis When I was very young, I had a pop-up puppet toy that I would play with all the time. I only remembered the toy recently, while I was trying to figure out what to do with a stack of old machine wool cones. Not only are these fun for playtime, they’re quite […]
