How-To: Fabric Scrap Button Brooch
Don’t trash those pretty little pieces of fabric—turn them into fabric scrap brooches!
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Don’t trash those pretty little pieces of fabric—turn them into fabric scrap brooches!
Add some handmade whimsey to your wardrobe with this free lace shawl knitting pattern!
Cécile Babiole’s Bzzz! The Sound of Electricity sculpture seems to embody the promise of the Arduino as being a microcontroller that artists can use to develop an idea without a lot of technical gruntwork: The sculpture has a radial form, arranged around a sound wave generator at the centre of a room surrounded by a […]
Update last year’s accessories with this year’s colors!
The game site Polygon did a really nice profile and video mini-doc on our pal (and MAKE contributor) I-Wei Huang. I-Wei is best known in MAKE circles for Crabfu Steamworks, his steam powered robots and other cool creations that he bodges together in his spare time. In the gaming world, I-Wei is best known as the chief character and toy designer for Skylanders, the wildly-successful video game and toy line.
One of the most popular projects on Make: Projects originated on the pages of CRAFT when it was a print magazine: the Woven Map Basket. Weaver Jane Patrick (who was previously editor of Handwoven magazine and is currently creative director for Schacht Spindle Company) wrote a simple how-to for taking old maps, slicing them, and […]
Lex Rudd will be joining us tomorrow for our Make: Believe HOA on Google+, 1 PM PST. She’ll show us various stages of her puppet design and fabrication techniques, including early sculpture, pattern making, molding, casting, prototypes, raw materials, and finished products. Lex will talk about her methods, how she learned her craft, and how […]