Holiday Project: Soft Tree Pattern
Stephanie Barnes of little birds handmade has a cute soft trees pattern PDF, you can download from her site. I love the modern style of her tree designs. 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.
HOW TO – Make Japanese paper dolls
Elizabeth Marsten gave us the heads up on Glue Gun Crafts. We love the tutorial on how to make Japanese paper dolls. Link.
HOW TO – Use “Furoshiki” (cloth gift wrapping)
The Ministry of the Environment Government of Japan has a guide (PDF) on using cloth as opposed to paper for wrapping gifts to cut down on the wasted paper usually used in gift wrap, great idea – Link. Thanks Lil! Related: Stitch and hem gift bags – Link.
Knitted Princess Leia wig gallery
Ansley at Bleu Arts has posted up a gallery of crafters who have made her knitted Princess Leia wig. If you’ve knitted a Leia wig yourself, please send a photo in to add to the gallery! Link.
HOW TO – Make a bottle cap dragon
Skeplin writes – “I was inspired by this artist’s bottle cap fish to create my own bottle cap dragon. 540 beer bottle caps (170 Amber Bock, 206 Killians, 68 Budweiser Select, 96 Budweiser) make up this 41 x 43 inch piece.” – Link. Related: Bottlecap magnets and thumbtacks – Link. Bottlecap Pincushions – Link.
Steam moped
The Steam Car Club of Great Britain has a steam powered moped project by Roger Ulsky – ” My SteamPed started life as a Motobecane Moped which I obtained in a non running condition but with all the parts intact. I eventually want to build a steam car and decided this would be a good […]
DSMIDIWiFi (free) – Turn your Nintendo DS into a Wireless Synth and controller
Peter writes – “Hey MAKE, very excited about this one. The creator of DSMIDI, the wired / hacked cartridge for MIDI cable connections… and the creator of NitroTracker (see my music app roundup for DS) … have teamed up to create a completely open source solution for sending MIDI wirelessly to and from the DS. […]