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.
Today’s CRAFT Pattern Podcast is the Passionflower Handbag from Fable Handmade Goods. Designed by Jennifer Fletcher, this bag is a beautifully embellished crochet handbag featuring an intricate flower design motif that is really easy to make! Use any worsted weight yarn. Customize the bag with different colors, handles, and lining fabric. Size: 10″ diameter (not […]
Tom writes – “Proximasolaris, who claims to be a 41 year-old living in France, spent 250 hours on this incredible piano casemod – installing the guts of a $2,300 Korg Triton Extreme, $300 of motors, $500 of assorted mechanics and blue LEDs.” [via] – Link.
Casey at Elegant Musings has a great bangle tutorial using sheet music dating from the mid 19th century. Casey says, “These could be anything from old telephone books, sewing or knitting pattern instructions, outdated catalogs, photocopies of antique or vintage photographs, pages from an old poetry book, old textbook pages… The possibilities are endless!!” Link.
Jeff de Boer makes these amazing suits of armor for cats and mice… “From his parents’ garage, he worked continuously on his art, developing four distinct bodies of work: armour for cats and mice, armour for executives, exoforms, and space objects including rocket lamps.” [via] – Link.
John writes – “LibraryThing lets you catalog your books, but the coolest part, to me, is that they have a feature that lets you repurpose the CueCat, a late-ninties barcode scanner which was hitherto useless dot com schwag. Now you can use it to scan your books into their system! Very cool.” – Link. Related: […]
It appears that most of the “The Secret life of Machines” are now on Google video, they’re outstanding and worth a view/download… “The Secret Life Of Machines is a TV series made for Channel 4 and subsequently shown on the Discovery Channel. The series was written by Tim Hunkin, and presented by Tim Hunkin and […]
modrak has a video of some homebrew DS app that emulates the iPod interface on your DS… “Showing off the new Pods homebrew app… the first song is mp3 320kbit/s, the other one is ogg at 192kbit/s” [via] – Link. Related: The iPod phone – Pocket PC to iPod – Link. State of the DS […]
