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My lovely friend Leandra was willing to let me create anything I wanted for her bridal bouquet this weekend. Her only requirement was that I used “all the colors in the rainbow.” So I went to the San Francisco Flower Mart, and picked out everything that called to me. The morning of her wedding, I […]
Anna of Mochimochi Land is sharing a free pattern for these cute knit baby gators from her new book, Knitting Mochimochi. I love the idea of whipping up a whole batch of them to make some kind of baby gator attack scene …
Brian Wagner wrote in with the exciting news that LVL1, a hackerspace in Louisville, KY, has secured a location and are ready to open their doors.
photo by Hello Craft Thursday was the longest day of the Summit of Awesome, kicking off with breakfast at 8:30 and winding down with the final afternoon session at 5:00. I taught two sessions myself midday (Jewelry Making and Craft Writing + Publishing) but spent the rest of the time checking out as many other […]
Inexpensive to make, and a lot better looking than the generic “tin can” variety.
The annual DMY Festival exhibits the work of more than 400 designers and is extended by over 40 satellite events around Berlin. This year the event hosted an international group of designer-hackers who brought in a factory’s worth of machinery to set up a Maker Lab. CNC milling, laser cutting, thermal forming, bioplastic molding, physical computing with Arduino, custom circuit board design and etching with Fritzing, RepRap and MakerBot 3-d printing, stop-motion animation and just about every other means of prototyping was in house
I spotted Jared Rusten’s walnut and oak California table in the CRAFT Flickr pool this weekend, and I couldn’t resist sharing it! It’s four feet long and the wood was salvaged from a local CA source.
