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s this rightly called a “hologram?” Either way, it’s pretty sweet. David Hartig of Santa Clara took a short video clip of his daughter in creepy makeup and an Alice-in-Wonderland costume, mirrored her image, and projected it onto some cardboard cutouts draped in muslin. “Come and play with us, Danny….”
More than a dozen New York yarn stores are participating in the first ever NYC Yarn Crawl this weekend in an effort to “encourage exploration of the city’s yarn shops and promote the needle arts.” The NYC Yarn Crawl is a free, self-guided tour for knitters, crocheters and other fiber artists to the city’s premier […]
Rob at Threadbanger did a “bang-up” job (forgive me) on his Michael Jackson Halloween costume this year, check it out!
The gorgeous blend of nature and felt in this mini pine cone and felt garland from Emily at Red Bird Crafts just oozes autumn. I love it!
I sent this link over to Becky for the CRAFT blog but I got jealous after she put it up and had to post it here, too. Chillingworth may be the coolest stuffed animal I have ever seen. He was made from an antique bodice by Ann Wood of Brooklyn.
For the last 12 years, I’ve been perfecting my technique of scaring kids. This project shows you how to build a tool I use in my haunted houses: a relay board that switches on electrical devices in time to an audio file that’s playing on a laptop, connected via parallel port. Using this setup, you can write code that synchronizes lights, motors, fog machines, pumps, laser pointers, and other devices to cues in a spooky soundtrack.
Today on CRAFT: MAKE reader and father of two kids, Dave Simon contributes a great Halloween tutorial on how to make monster and alien feet. From the article: Where I work we cannot have elaborate costume festivities. Only one item of clothing can be “Halloweenish”. For instance, one year your hat can be the costume, […]
