HOW TO – Knit Mii Mittens
Want to look more like your Mii on your Nintendo Wii? This season’s Knitty has a pattern for making your own “Mii”ttens for your little one. Keep these in mind for Halloween. Via BB Offworld (Thanks, Sarah).
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Female Merit Badges
Artist Mary Yeager creates female merit badges. She says My female merit badges illustrate female “rites of passage” as well as the myriad physical manipulations women undergo to achieve cultural ideals of beauty, such as weight watching, whether or not to shave or wear makeup, etc. I’ve created tiny replicas of female products, such as […]
iPhone case from juice boxes
Marc @ MAKE writes: Ross sent in these neat little DIY cases that keep your expensive electronics safe and sound. They are made entirely from recycled juice boxes. It’s a great way to reuse what is otherwise a very hard thing to recycle. Check out the link for some tips and a nice pictorial how-to […]
HOW TO – Crochet Master Shake
Yes, that’s right, a crochet pattern for making my second favorite character from Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Master Shake, by Instructables user Fruppi.
HOW TO – Fat Quarter Purse
I love buying fat quarters of fabric since it’s the perfect size to experiment with–enough fabric to make a project or two, but not so much that it will sit around your house taking up room. So I love that We Wilsons has a great purse tutorial up that uses exactly one fat quarter. [via […]
Sharrow Sweater
Lisa from The Little Red Blog of Revolutionary Knitting got hit by a pickup truck while riding her bike so she started working on a sharrow sweater. Sharrows are the arrows used on roadways to mark a bicycle route, but apparently they don’t paint sharrows in LA where she lives. I can’t wait to see […]
Knitted Heart Pattern
The Knitty surprises are up and include a pattern for this knitted heart. The pattern was created by Kristin Ledgett, co-owner of The Knit Café in Toronto. If you start knitting now, you can make it in time for Valentine’s Day.