Kimono Style Needle Roll
Craftbits has great project on making a Kimono style needleholder roll. I love the extra pocket at the bottom for circular needles or other notions. Link.
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.
Babette Blanket
The Purl Bee has Kathy Merrick’s Babette Blanket, with lots of tips like how to pick colors, charting the color combinations, and more. The blanket is featured in Interweave Crochet’s Spring 2006 issue. You can also upload your finished Babette Blanket to the flickr pool. Link.
The origami lab
The New Yorker has a great article about Robert Lang, physicist turned origami pro (we’ve covered his work on MAKE a lot)… One of the few Americans to see action during the Bug Wars of the nineteen-nineties was Robert J. Lang, a lanky Californian who was on the front lines throughout, from the battle of […]
PanoramaScanCam – “first light”
Mac writes – Since the last update I posted, I was able to work out a number of optical, mechanical, and electrical issues. A new lens is now attached to the (heavily reworked) scanner head. They have been attached to the camera cylinder. Last weekend, I did a test operation of the PanoramaScanCam and obtained […]
Burda Style…
Nat @ CRAFT points to one of my new favorite sites in the crafting world… Burda Style is a new sewing and community site (still in beta) which also features a wide array of cool free sewing patterns. Sign up to chat in the forums with other sewers and find similar interests or sell one […]
Burda Style
Burda Style is a new sewing and community site (still in beta) that also features a wide array of cool, free sewing patterns. Sign up to chat in the forums with other sewers and find similar interests, or sell one of your own designs! Pictured at left is the 8132 C Maddy top and on […]
The “DishMaker”
Leonardo made a diskmaker, not something practical (yet) – but usually nothing interesting starts out being so… hate dishes? the DishMaker is a new kind of appliance that can replace dishes altogether by making cups, bowls and plates on demand and recycling them when you’re done. the device uses up the same room and energy […]