The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
And with this “Curiously Strong Trebuchet” I think we’ve reached some sort of unholy singularity where everything that can possible go in or on a mint tin has done so. Now I think we’re all going to die. The Curiously Strong Trebuchet: A Pocket Sized Medieval Siege Engine
License Plate Memo Board Turn retired plates into a road trip display. By Tiffany Threadgould Take your retired plates for one more trip around the block. License plates work great as a memo board because they already have two built-in holes to hang from. The rest is easy as cruise control. Tip: There are two […]
Shelly at flipt studio shows you how to sew pleated grosgrain trim into the seam allowance of a pillow.
For our Craft readers who are down under, nikkishell over at BurdaStyle is looking for volunteers to help out at the Sydney Stitches And Craft Show in August. ::Wednesday August the 19th, Thursday the 20th and Friday the 21st. ::10am til 4 or 5pm. ::Willing to work between the Wardrobe Refashion Reconstruction Zone and the […]
In the twice-monthly Make: Online Toolbox, we focus mainly on tools that fly under the radar of more conventional tool coverage: in-depth tool-making projects, strange or specialty tools unique to a trade or craft that can be useful elsewhere, tools and techniques you may not know about, but once you do, and incorporate them into […]
Okay, mom, dad, so maybe you’re feeling a little of the ol’ economic pinch and the idea of stuffing the brood into the family cargo pod, filling its belly full of precious dinosaur squeezin’s, and setting off for Wally World just doesn’t sit comfortably on your bottom line this summer. You’ve decided to stay at […]
Learn how to make a cool-looking pot rack from copper pipe in this tutorial form This Old House. [ via AT NY ] From the site: Before the kitchen became a stainless-steel-and-granite showpiece, the cook’s room was a hardworking, faraway place, full of steam and heat and exposed pipes. One way to evoke that Victorian-era […]
