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.
Since June, I’ve been watching the whole production process of Karissa Cove’s “I heart to knit” bags. It’s been cool to see what happens in design and production to get a bunch of craft goods of the same item up for sale. She’s finally done with them all and you can get her handy tote […]
Scott writes – “Two Chicago Based artists, Tom Burtonwood and Holly Holmes, created this 3/4 size M1A2 Abrams tank out of cardboard and junk mail. You can find more information here” – Link.
Here’s a quickie – like peanut butter and chocolate, peas and carrots, sodium and chloride – homemade headphones and open source MP3 players go great together… Somehow I’ve managed to acquire boxes of cheap headphones, probably from airplanes or from some gadgets that came with them. You can get “safety headphones” at thrift stores, or […]
Betz White has a great needle felting tutorial up using one of those cool needlefelting tools from Clover. There’s also a great Japanese craft book I have that has tons of stencils and how tos in the book using this same technique (ISBN4-8347-6330-7). The Clover needlefelting tool is great because it’s much more ergonomic than […]
Our new site for CRAFT is live! Natalie Zee with be relentlessly blogging along with Carla Sinclair – so stop by, add the CRAFT blog (RSS/XML) and check out what CRAFT is all about. We’ll always have craft projects on MAKE, but now there’s one site/blog and one magazine for the truly obsessed! CRAFT is […]
Treehugger just announced that Vermont Organic Fibre Company has a new line of organic fiber called O-Wool. Apparently this is a first for the US to have organic wool for hand knitting. The colors are nice and rich, just perfect for that new fall sweater you are about to knit. [ via ] Link.
From the same folks who brought the world, the COUCH BIKE – here’s another unusual contraption, it’s a treadmill on a bike, you run and it goes… – [via] – Link. More: Other bicycle projects – Link. Maker made transportation – Link.
