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By Ann Martin If you enjoy making Valentine cards, quilled hearts and flowers are a great way to add dimension. At first glance, quilling might seem complicated, but it honestly isn’t hard to do once you’ve learned the basics. An added bonus is that it’s one of the least expensive hobbies I’ve come across, and […]
Nicole from Cola Cola Island takes the scandal out of too-sheer tops with her simple, quick shirt lining tutorial. And, as a gal who’s had the experience of going outside in a fancy new shirt, only to find out—embarrassingly after the fact—that it was completely see through it in the sun, this is a how-to […]
Human beings have been smithing silver for millennia. I was surprised to learn, therefore, that significant advances in silver metallurgy have been made as recently as the 1990s. Sterling silver, by definition, contains 92.5 wt% silver metal and 7.5% other metals, traditionally mostly copper. In 1998, however, Peter Johns of Middlesex University obtained a US […]
Brett Beauregard writes: “I needed a break. I’ve been working hard on the osPID for several months, and I just needed to not look at code or control algorithms for a little bit. Nothing says “break” like an out-of-left-field project.”
Space stitchery has a special place in my heart, so I was thrilled when Hannah shared the work of artist Marta Brysha with me this morning. Marta works in a gorgeous studio in the central highlands of Tasmania and uses stunning hand dyed threads and fabrics to create her embroideries depicting nebulae, galaxies and other […]
The Originals Factory is an art bot by Liat Segal & Assaf Talmudi: The Originals Factory is a work in progress fusing together and questioning digital, mechanic and plastic approaches to art, abstraction and originality. It is basically a DIY robot, built and programmed to create landscape paintings in the style of American abstract expressionism. […]
Considering that he wears one of the most recognizable sweaters of all time, I think that it makes perfect sense that flickr user Olá Olá Bonjour TragedyTrousers! created this awesome amigurumi Freddy Krueger! [via knithacker]
