Andrew Salomone uses a hacked knitting machine from the 80s to “print” digital images into knitted garments. At World Maker Faire New York 2011, Andrew demonstrates the knitting machine and shows off its creations including a sweater with Bill Cosby’s face.
Here’s something I thought I’d share here on the blog for National Sewing Month. I’m hitting the road today to spend the weekend with my grandfather for his 90th birthday and I wanted to make a treat bag for all of our family members. I’d seen Martha Stewart’s tutorial for an oilcloth lunch bag both […]
For Emily Roose’s Masters in Graphic Design thesis project, she created a series of cross-stitch samplers based on big news stories. I juxtaposed content that is extremely fast and ephemeral (breaking news stories) with a very slow and archival medium (cross stitch). I wanted to see how this transference of medium affects the message of […]
Amelia Harnas made these enigmatic portraits using a combination of embroidery and wine stains. These portraits are created either by using a wax resist (much like batiks) and repeated wine stains with embroidery as a reinforcing drawing over the original design or wine on paper with machine sewing. [via colossal]
Basting is a step that shows up regularly enough in sewing instructions, but many makers don’t know exactly what it is and why you would want to take the time to learn how to do it. Personally, I think that basting is one of the most helpful tools for accurately constructing a sewing project, which […]
Meg’s latest video shows you how to make several styles of 60s Peter Pan collars.
The Burda Style booth was once again very popular at Maker Faire New York this past weekend. A great nod to National Sewing Month, folks could make their own drawstring bag as they tried their hands at sewing. We saw the bags around all weekend and were jealous of these two fabrics from Spoonflower – […]
