Craft & Design

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.

How-To: Pintuck Ring Bearer Pillow

How-To: Pintuck Ring Bearer Pillow

This pintuck ring bearer pillow tutorial that Eunice and Tricia Roush shared on Hello! Lucky is too cute! Want to make one for your special day? Head over to the site to see the complete how-to! [Via CraftGossip] More: How-To: Chic Wedding Chalkboards @Craftzine.com blog ucculent Wedding Bouquets @Craftzine.com blog Papercraft Wedding Sparkler Holder @Craftzine.com […]

Wedding Cake-shaped Zoetrope

Wedding Cake-shaped Zoetrope

Youtube user atomikqbert posted this video of Aaron Copland’s, “Going Up For Seconds,” a wedding cake-shaped zoetrope animation (although, I think this may technically be a zoopraxiscope?). For this zoetrope, animation is captured using a camera with progressive scan. I wanted to play up the tiered cake shape of the zoetrope, so I made it […]

How-To: Low-Cost Gyroscopic Camera Stabilizer

How-To: Low-Cost Gyroscopic Camera Stabilizer

DIY physics guru David Prutchi coveted one of the expensive professional-grade gyroscopic camera stabilizers made by Kenyon Laboratories. “These devices,” he observes, “don’t seem to have changed much since Kenyon’s founder filed the following two patents in the 50′s: US2811042, US2570130.” Referencing those patents, David reverse-engineered the basic geometry of the Kenyon stabilizer using a pair of inexpensive precision gyroscopes from Glenn Turner of gyroscopes.com.

How-To: Layered Seersucker Skirt

How-To: Layered Seersucker Skirt

Seersucker is the perfect fabric to break out for springtime sewing. It’s clean, fresh, lightweight and always classic. With this tutorial from Dana of MADE, seersucker gets an extra boost of playfulness in the way of layered ruffles. The pattern can actually use most any fabric, and can be easily modified in size and style […]