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.
Los Angeles-based crafter and maker Megan O. Andersen—aka RadMegan—is one of my favorite voices in the DIY community. As far as crafty credentials go, I think the first sentence on the “About Megan” page on her blog sums it up perfectly: “Megan O. Andersen has been crafting, baking, cooking, drawing, sculpting and gardening since she could hold a crayon.”
Attention crafters! DIY online community Kollabora is giving away three $100 gift certificates to their store in the “Blast from the Past” contest. (The Kollabora store is great — they sell yarn, sewing supplies, jewelry-making tools, knitting/crochet notions, and more.) To enter the contest, upload your favorite original project from the past on Kollabora with “Blast from the Past” included in the title.
Into stamps and stitches? You’ll love this hexagon quilt stamps tutorial from Mollie at Wild Olive!
Joshua Harker has been a maker and artist his whole life. He worked professionally as a product and toy designer for a few years before turning to 3D art. Within the last year and a half, he’s created the first and fourth most funded sculpture projects on Kickstarter, and sold thousands of beautiful works of art, all created with 3D Printing. I spoke to him about his process and his views on the current state of the 3D Printing industry.
New 3D scanning and 3D printing technologies are allowing us to obliterate old limitations. They’re giving rise to disruptive inventions, unseen production methods and dynamic products. 3D technology is a lot of fun, too. Take foosball. Foosball is fun.
Next month’s Maker Faire Bay Area is our biggest event of the year. It’s held at the San Mateo County Event Center. But this past weekend here in Sonoma County, Calif. where MAKE is headquartered, us North Bay folks flocked to the Sonoma County Maker Kids Mini Maker Faire. It was a good day of kid-friendly projects and a warm-up of sorts for the main event to come next. Have a look.
On this episode of DiResta, Jimmy casts a skull buckle from delft clay and a tin alloy to make any metalhead swoon.
