How-To: Needle Felted Dalek
When I think of cute and cuddly, a Dalek isn’t exactly the first thing that comes to mind. At least, it wasn’t until I saw this awesome needle felted dalek 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.
How-To: Hardcover Book Lamp
Give damaged or unreadable books with quirky covers a new life as eye-catching home decor with this hardcover book lamp tutorial!
Make: Believe // Special Effects Scar Makeup Tutorial
In this installment of Make: Believe, we learn how to make a few simple scars using special effects makeup. This is a great first project to get into costume makeup. Join us as our intern Paloma Fautley exhibits these techniques on our Creative Director, Jason Babler. Materials: Liquid Latex Scar Wax Vaseline Assorted Eye Shadow […]
Repair Your Pair (Of Jeans)
If you’ve worn a hole in a favorite pair of denim blue jeans, check out this great little instructional video from Swedish jean company Nudie Jeans, showing you how to repair the hole using a bit of iron-on interfacing, a swatch of denim, and a needle and thread. It’s a super simple and the fix is unobtrusive-looking. Press play on the video just to hear the charmingly upbeat 1930s ditty “Tre Trallande Jäntor” by Felix Körling.
Growing Your Business From TechShop to the Garage
I first met Laura Bruland of Yes & Yes Designs in May 2012 at TechShop in San Francisco. As an avid book reader I was intrigued by the fact that she took old discarded books and turned them into jewelry. OK, I slightly cringed at this, but the results are beautiful. At the time she was able to run her entire business out of TechShop. No overheard, no employees. Just her and a monthly membership.
Move forward seven months and she’s grown her business from six stores in San Francisco to 23 around the world. She went from being a one-woman show to having a business partner/employee and her own laser cutter
Tutorial: Single-Stem Rosette Necklace
From the brilliant fingertips of Meream Pacayra comes this sweet single-stem rosette necklace, made from yarn, florist wire, and a few other items. Over on her blog, Bored & Crafty, she shows you how to make your own. Also check out Meream’s Guitar Bag tutorial, originally published in CRAFT Volume 10!
Amazing Scratch-Built Nautilus
I’m already a big fan of Jonathan Kuriscak’s skills at customizing action figures, but his scratch-built Nautilus is phenomenal. Straight from Johnathan:
The Nautilus, Captain Nemo’s Submarine from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea was scratch built from various materials. At 38 inches long, glass port windows, and with over 5,000 hand laid rivets this build was a large undertaking!