How-To: Color Block Leather and Wood Trivets
Make a bold, bright DIY statement in your kitchen with this tutorial for making your own delightfully bulky color block leather and wood trivets!
Month: November 2013
Earthship Green Homes
Earthship Biotecture designs green homes that incorporate systems for off-grid electricity production, water use and treatment, heating and cooling and even food production.
Flashback: Bubble Wrap Necklace, from Jewelry Upcycled, by Sherri Haab
Looking at the delicate discs that make up this pendant, I’ll bet you’d never guess they were made from humble bubble wrap!
Macadamia Grocery Geometry Challenge
Here’s the challenge: see if you can find a way to have five (or more?) cylinders of an aspect ratio at least close to 9.5 : 7 all touch each other simultaneously, and send a picture of the configuration to mondays@momath.org — the first/best solutions will be posted in a future installment.
How-To: Cotton Sherpa Lap Duvet
It’s blanket season, and the Purl Bee has taken an already good idea and made it even cozier with this cotton sherpa lap duvet tutorial!
How-To: Hanging Crocheted Basket with Upcycled T-Shirt Yarn
Keep track of remotes, game controllers, and other must-have electronics–and recycle some old t-shirts while you’re at it–with this hanging crochet basket and upcycled t-shirt yarn tutorial!
Playing with PCL
Whether you know it as ShapeLock, PolyMorph, InstaMorph, ThermoMorph or some other brand name, polycaprolactone (PCL) is an amazing low temperature melt plastic that is great for prototypes, repairs, and making great stuff.