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.
Give tired or stained cotton fabrics a colorful new look! Turn something unwearable or ugly into usable fabric yardage with cotton fabric dyeing 101. When it comes to playing with dye, there’s no need to feel intimidated. This fun and helpful cotton fabric dyeing 101 video tutorial from Jennifer at CraftSanity will walk you through […]
All over the crafty internet right now, it seems like everyone is quilting. Hexagons, triangles, and all manor of fabric-fuelled geometry abound, and right at the center of all of that quilt-y goodness is the rise in popularity of English paper piecing! English paper piecing—EPP for short—is a hand-quilting technique that allows complete beginners and […]
Handmade soaps make wonderful gifts, and a surprisingly simple batch of stained glass soap is a beautiful place to begin! If you’re a soap-making novice—or if you’re just looking for a quick and easy recipe—glycerine soap can help you get gorgeous results the first time around, and without the several-weeks-long curing time! Ready to bring […]
It’s a good thing metallic embroidery floss is so pretty, because it can be a serious pain in the backside to use. Unraveling, knotting, and mysteriously working itself into impossible tangles without warning are all to be expected—and that’s on a well-behaved day! But, what if working with metallic floss could be easy? Turns out, […]
In the future, we’ll all live in “Live Cubes,” tiny homes that restrict your energy and water use
The performance art group Quimera Rosa has created devices that allow performers to play one another like musical instruments. They use these musical inventions to explore the cybernetic relationships between human bodies and technology. As stated on their website, “We are specially interested in the articulations between art, science, and technology, and their function in the […]
Here are some cool things we saw in the CRAFT Flickr Pool this week: Week 15 – Kumihimo Disks, by Isette WIP, by Flavia Rocha nope necklace, by Brooke Arin Medlin RestaurantCadeau Snackwagen, by Dennis van Zuijlekom fun thingies, by Orson’s World
