How-To: Faux Agate Crystal
Create your own beautiful rock-inspired decor with this lovely faux agate crystal tutorial!
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.
Cardboard: In Praise of an Underappreciated Material
You might not be aware of it but your home has an infestation of the most abundant, versatile, free and under-utilized crafting and prototyping material ever made. A gift from the consumer driven economy we overlook everyday.
This material is sitting cluttered in scattered piles in the basement and in crawl spaces, is buried within dusty mounds in the garage and is waiting to be discarded while overflowing in the recycling bin.
The material I am referring to is good old grade-A cardboard!
Chainmaille Collar from Jump Rings
Etsy seller skycubaclub creates incredibly elaborate chainmaille and Japanese lace necklaces and collars from aluminum and jump rings.
DIY Light-Up Marquee Letter
Design Sponge provides a rad tutorial showing us how to make our own light-up marquee letter that is perfect for a weekend home decor project.
How-To: Use a Sewing Machine Ruffle Foot
Are you getting your stitch on for National Sewing Month? Maybe it’s time to finally try one of those specialty sewing machine feet that have been gathering dust in your drawer.
Autodesk Partners with Circuits.io to Create Free Electronics Design Tool
Autodesk today expanded its suite of free 3D tools by partnering with Circuits.io to launch an electronics design tool: 123D Circuits.
Enter the (Paper) Matrix
Math Mondays is back from summer vacation with a brief break from all of the goodies discovered at the Bridges conference (more later) to highlight another must-visit site in the world of making with a mathematical bent. Today’s shout-out goes to PaperMatrix, an incredible compendium of all things made by weaving paper. In the mix are spheres and ellipsoids and polyhedra galore