Holiday Project: Fun Fur Christmas Tree
Tamie at Roxycraft has a tutorial on how to make cute furry trees using eyelash yarn. Link. Related: Roxycraft’s beaded tree – Link.
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Holiday Project: Paper Stars
Curbly’s DIY Maven says, “I found instructions for these beautiful folded paper stars in an old magazine called The Workbasket. Not only were the directions indecipherable, the picture illustrations were misidentified. Although your first attempt might be a challenge, it’ll be worth it as the final product will impress your friends and family.Use them to […]
An Afternoon at RISD’s Apparel Department
While Diana Eng and I were in Rhode Island a couple weeks ago for Craftland (See recap here), she gave myself and O’Reilly editors Brian Sawyer and Brian Jepson a tour of her alma mater RISD (Rhode Island School of Design). Creativity and innovation seemed to flow through the school and we were lucky to […]
Wii EEPROM hacking & a wish list from Spark Fun Electronics
Spark Fun Electronics poked at the EPROM on the Wii, fun stuff– “We just couldn’t not do it. We had to see what was on the Wii EEPROM. There’s surprising amount of 8051 instructions actually. How neat! We hot-aired off the EEPROM and soldered it down to our SSOP breakout board. We then hooked up […]
Bazaar Bizarre Recap – LA and Boston
Bazaar Bizarre was in full swing in LA this past Saturday. Mark Fraunfelder (MAKE) and I were there to man the CRAFT table. We had lots of fun that day so be sure to check out all the photos! Swap-O-Rama-Rama was in full swing near us and it was fun to see everyone into making […]
Bingo’s Craft Emporium in LA
Before Pull My Daisy and Silverlake Shoes combine in February for one giant store, owners Sarah and Rick have opened a one month only craft store named after the Sunset Junction coolest wiener dog, Bingo. Bingo’s Craft Emporium (3909 Sunset Blvd, Silver Lake) has from many local LA crafters (and some not so local). The […]
Holiday Project: Wrap Presents with Fabric (video)
Nat stopped by ABC’s “View from the Bay: and showed how to do some DIY gift wrapping: “Dress-up your holiday presents this year by wrapping them in a new and inventive way that will impress everyone! Natalie Zee Drieu from Craft magazine came back to The View from the Bay to tell Spencer and Janelle […]