Maker Faire Weekend Recap: Albuquerque and Dover
A glimpse of projects and people from this past weekend’s Dover and Albuquerque Mini Maker Faires.
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.
Quilting Happiness Project Excerpt: The Pocket Wall Caddy
Try your hand at a beautifully simple organizer that you’ll use for years to come with this Pocket Wall Caddy project from the book QUILTING HAPPINESS: Projects, Inspiration & Ideas to Make Quilting More Joyful by Christina Lane & Diane Gilleland!
How-To: Cross-Stitch
Brush up your stitching know-how—or pick up some new brand new skills—with this helpful basic cross-stitch tutorial!
Singer VIVO Create and Repair Sewing Machine
I have several full-sized sewing machines that I use for project design and writing tutorials, but they aren’t always ideal for small, quick projects or for teaching and travel, so I’m definitely intrigued by the new VIVO Create and Repair Machine from Singer.
How-To: Kaiju Sushi
Tumblr user crdsarahpalmer thought that some of the monsters featured in Pacific Rim would make some tasty sushi, so she conjured up this exotic-looking Kaiju Sushi recipe from Jell-O and rice pudding.
Retro Video Game Lego Mosaic
Etsy user Franck Lahaye created an epic lego mosaic depicting scores of retro nintendo and sega video game characters!
CRAFT Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
Need some crafty inspiration? Here are some of the cool things we saw in the CRAFT Flickr Pool this week!