Coffee Filter Roses
These roses made from coffee filters are quite pretty! The micro-rippled texture of coffee filters makes it a material well-suited to mimicking the look of rose petals. Blog in Polish, with English translations. [via poppytalk]
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.
Perfect Balls
CRAFT blogger Haley just posted a great tutorial for creating perfect felted wool balls on The Zen of Making. What would YOU make with these? Garlands, snow men, googly eyes?
Alt.CES: Kinect-Ctrl’d Board of Awesomeness
Since CES is such a big show, some companies do outrageous things to get noticed. Whether it’s building a $30k iPod dock or hiring stuntmen to ride around town on top of cars, the idea is to stick out. The thing is, there’s a fine line between causing a little buzz and accidental product development. […]
Make an Upholstered Headboard
In part II of my bedroom series I show you how to make an upholstered illuminated headboard that has a floating effect by adding a second board to the back. Subscribe to the CRAFT Podcast in iTunes, download the m4v directly, or watch it on YouTube or Vimeo. I also added some pillows from a […]
Lion Brand Pattern Support
Here’s a handy tip – If you’re working on one of Lion Brand Yarn’s patterns and could use some advice, you can always contact them at support [at] lionbrand [dot] com or calling 1-800-705-8636.
How-To: Travel Checkers
Tanya from Grand Revival Design recently published her new book, Sew What You Love: The Easiest, Prettiest Projects Ever. To celebrate, she stopped by Sew, Mama, Sew! to talk about the book and share her adorable travel checkers pattern, which you can download for free on the site!