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.
knitgrrl Shannon has declared November, NaNoSewMo (National Sweater Knitting Month) and has created a cool knit-a-long! Shannon says, “How it works with NaNoSweMo: knit a 50,000-stitch sweater in a month. Or therebouts. I’ve never actually thought about sweaters in stitch count terms, that’s crazy talk. But if you divide your chosen sweater pattern’s rows or […]
While at the G4 studios, I got a tour of their prop making facilities. Prop people are awesome because everyday they get requests like, “We need a miniature star trek set with a green screen.” Then they fulfill those requests… rad! – Link to photoset
Thanks Vicki! Just in time for the cold of winter, she’s given us this hip (and fast) knitting pattern to make some cool fingerless gloves. Link.
There isn’t a sound sample -yet- but check out these photos of a 12 modded Pikachu circuit bent orchestra! [via] – Link. Related: Kaseo’s Circuit Bending Gallery (JPN) – Link. Circuit bending @ MAKE – Link. From the pages of MAKE: Circuit Bending – Modify a Casio keyboard (or other electronic audio stuff) and start […]
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Jcruss69 made an out of this world Alien invasion “haunted house” (and entered it in the MAKE & CRAFT contest) check out the complete photo set, outstanding work! – Link.
Manuel Braun’s “game of life” with PC fans… – “”Déplacements” consists of 24 computer case fans forming a rectangle. Each fans is “pixel”, its number of revolutions and the intensity of the light of its LED varies according to the level of gray corresponding to the pixel of reference. This screen of fans is controlled […]
Nat says… – “domiKNITrix has one of the best free skull patterns around. So good that another crafter Lisa made a huge skull afgan out of it…” [via] – Link. Related: More crafts @ CRAFT – Link.
