How-To: Condition and Dye Hemp Rope
Conditioned hemp rope is expensive, but Instructables user mcvarij shows you how. I never knew it was so involved, and yet simple!
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How-To: Throw a Summer Soap Making Party
Debbie from Soapylove has put together a great video tutorial on throwing your own Summer Soap Making Party. I could see myself doing this for my kids and their friends this summer, either for a birthday or just having each kid bring a few dollars for supplies and make it a fun afternoon activity. The […]
Victoria Altepeter’s Metalwork Show
A fellow graduate student at Arizona State, Victoria Altepeter, is having her MFA show right now in Tempe, AZ. She makes amazing celestially-influenced works in metals, and her show just blew my mind. It’s up all week in the Harry Wood Gallery, but if you’re not local you can enjoy it through my Flickr set […]
Today is Ada Lovelace Day, celebrating women in technology
Today is Ada Lovelace Day, a day for celebrating women in technology: Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace was born on 10th December 1815, the only child of Lord Byron and his wife, Annabella. Born Augusta Ada Byron, but now known simply as Ada Lovelace, she wrote the world’s first computer programmes for the Analytical […]
Weaving on the Cheap
Check out this great tutorial, Weaving on the Cheap at Corus Tristis that really caught my eye. Corvus writes: Recently I decided to teach myself to weave, and to do so as cheaply as possible. Just about everything for the project was re/upcycled, from the yarn (old t-shirts) to the loom (scrap wood from building […]
Spanish students beat NASA
A group of student makers took kite arial photography to a new level: weather balloon photography. They certainly are undercutting NASA’s budget, spending very little on their project, and fabricating most of the structure and electronics themselves. Check out Gareth’s previous entry on the project. Mail Online has a decent writeup. Nice of them to […]
Hardware store chessmen
Dan Woods, Associate Publisher of MAKE tipped me off to Julia Suits’ chess pieces made from nuts and bolts. She writes: Headed toward the light-bulb aisle in my local hardware store a few years ago,I stopped to admire the bins of nuts,bolts and the like. This is not unusual for me who likens this kind […]