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Siggi Eggertson created this quilt as part of his graduation project from The Iceland Academy of the Arts. But look more closely at the details aside from the Michael Jordan centerpiece, Siggi incorporated all of his childhood memories in various figures and scenes that make up this quilt that is created from about 10,000 pieces. […]
The Museum of Scientifically Accurate Fabric Brain Art was created by artists Marjorie Taylor and Karen Norberg to exhibit the world’s largest collection of anatomically correct fabric art, inspired by research from neuroscience and dissection. Materials used by the duo to make their creations include fabric, yarn, metallic threads, electronic components such as magnetic core […]
By Arwen O’Reilly We just got this great letterpress from the folks over at the LoBot Gallery in West Oakland. They were trying to clear out some space in their warehouse, and of course we just love cluttering ours up! We’re picking up the press itself tomorrow, but brought the type cabinet back with us […]
Rania Hassan Blog – goshdarnknit.blogspot.com Rania Hassan’s recent series of paintings incorporate a new crafty element–knitting. The paintings are a series of two women connected together through time or space with their knitting. Rania will have some of these paintings at her booth at Crafty Bastards on Oct. 1 in DC. See all 10 of […]
From the MAKE photo pool, crafty Lauren was inspired by this iPod shuffle cozy with instructions and decided her iPod needed a little quilted sleeping bag. The cozy quilt is made from an old fabric belt. From Lauren,”It only took me 20 minutes to make, and was almost like a little patchwork quilt where I […]
MK Carroll has a great knit pattern for a sushi knit toilet paper cozy. Also, check out her new sushi crochet pillow in the new book Get Hooked! Link. More: Crochet sushi toilet paper cozy – Link.
Brady (from O’Reilly) spotted this rad Self-balancing skateboard in the desert during Burning Man, he writes “This was the coolest piece of personal transport that I saw on the playa…It was very easy to ride on. Lots of fun. I met the creator, Justin, on the playa. He calls it an emanual. He promised to […]
