Continuous quilt binding by Heather Bailey
Heather Bailey has posted up a great tutorial on how to bind the edge of your quilt with continuous binding. Look at those perfect corners! Link.
Craft & Design
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National WWII Museum – Knit Your Bit Campaign
During WWII, knitting was a nationwide movement of support, as seen in the above poster. Now over 65 years later, the National WWII Museum is starting a new “Knit Your Bit” campaign to honor WWII veterans by knitting them scarves to keep them warm this winter. You can download the free scarf pattern from the […]
HOW TO – Make your own protein sculpture – Julian Voss-Andreae
Our editor at large David Pescovitz spotted these amazing sculptures and how-to… he writes – “Artist Julian Voss-Andreae sculpts magnificent representations of protein molecules out of wood, metal, and other materials. He’s also written a HOWTO on making your own protein sculptures from the datasets for three-dimensional structures of biological macromolecules freely available from the […]
VSSTV – Very Slow Scan Television
Watching TV, one drop a time… – “Very Slow Scan Television (VSSTV) is a new television format that we have developed building upon Slow Scan Television (SSTV), an image transmission system used by Ham Radio amateurs. VSSTV uses broadcasts from this historic public domain television system and regular bubble wrap to construct an analogous system: […]
HOW TO – Create Quicktime VR Panoramas (using free software)
Kabukistar writes – “This instructable will show you how to make those nifty 3D virtual-reality “tours,” that you see on some web-pages, in Windows, using entirely free software. If you’re not quite sure what I’m talking about, this is a VR panorama from WWU’s campus, which I’ll be making for an example in this instructable…” […]
Murmansk’s gorgeous garages
MAKE reader cparada writes in with this addition to our previous maker “workshops” post… – “Here’s an interesting variation: Garages in Baltic Russia. [These are in Murmansk (МýрманÑк), per Wikipedia: “a city in the extreme northwest of Russia with a seaport on the Kola Bay, 12km from the Barents Sea on the northern shore of […]
Tokyo Design Week 2006 report from Ping Mag
One of my favorite sites, Ping Mag, has an overview of a lot of neat art and design projects from Tokyo Design Week 2006 – I like this pewter table cast on the beach from Max Lamb – [via] – Link.