From traditional crafts to modern crafts, we’re covering news and interesting projects to educate you and keep you inspired. Design trends and pop culture related projects are here to inspire.
Dying to stitch on nylon, spandex, or even faux fur? Before you get started, check out these tips for embroidering on 5 types of tricky fabric—including organza, nylon, spandex, silk, and faux fur—that the folks from Embroidery Library shared on Stitch Punk! Once a beginner has moved past the phase of embroidering each and every […]
If you’ve ever thought that your BMX bike was lacking the requisite dj gear, you’re in luck. Designed for an ad by Japanese bicycle sharing service Cogoo, the Turntable Rider adds a handlebar-mounted crossfader, jog wheel controller on the rim, and various other sensors to trigger preprogrammed loops to accompany you as pull trick after trick. Sound too good to be true?
Electronotes is a newsletter on electronic music synthesis that was started in 1972 by Cornell EE professor Bernie Hutchins. It’s a great source for electronic music schematics and circuit ideas. Early contributors to the newsletter were people like Robert Moog and Don Buchla, and a lot of interesting modular synthesizers like the ASM2 are based […]
I held out as long as I could and now I am knee-deep in The Hunger games trilogy. I AM HOOKED! I am starving all of the time, feeling dirty and desperate, and feel torn between two men? What? The line is blurred between reality and fantasy and to blur it further I need to apply this Katniss braid to my hair as shown by …Love Maegan.
I’m liking this sewing manifesto from Straight Stitch Society, a new line of patterns from children’s sewing pattern maker Oliver + S. Life is hard. Sewing is easy. When the going gets tough, the tough get sewing. Sewing is cheaper than therapy and easier on your waistline than chocolate. Don’t make it if it’s not […]
Pablo Garcia of Pittsburgh, PA, used a CNC drawing machine to recreate illustrations of drawing machines of yore.
My pal Christine from Delachic has officially made the most wonderful and ridiculous hat that I’ve ever seen. Designed for a charity event that also happened to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, she whipped up this fabulous Titanic derby hat the night before using manila folders and foam sheets. […]
