Crochet Puppet Scarf
This Crochet Puppet Scarf is seriously adorable. I know what my niece is getting for her birthday!
Month: February 2011
Insulated Canteen From No-Refill Propane Bottle
Cool Instructable from user hpstoutharrow. Of course these propane bottles are not meant to be opened, so you have to be careful to follow a sensible procedure, but it seems to me like hpstoutharrow has done a good job in providing that. Commenters there seem to agree.
Once any residual flammable gas is safely vented, both valves are removed by drilling, and the bottom of the bottle is cut out to insert a 20 oz plastic beverage bottle, which has been shrunk slightly by exposure to boiling water. The neck of the soda bottle protrudes where the tank’s center valve was, and is secured there with an o-ring. Spray-in foam insulation holds the liner in place and insulates its contents from the metal bottle, and the bottom of the tank is reattached for appearance’s sake. [via Hack a Day]
Basic Blacksmithing on CRAFT (video)
In this week’s CRAFT Video, Meg Allan Cole and I took a trip to Brooklyn’s She-Weld studio for a special blacksmithing lesson from Alex Himmelbaum. He showed us how to taper and decoratively curl the end of a steel rod and rivet it to a hammered backplate. It’s the burliest paper towel holder we’ve seen, […]
Blacksmithing With Meg
In today’s Craft video I had the pleasure of blacksmithing with Alex Himmelbaum.
LED Display Shows Time and RSS Feeds
Bob Alexander wrote in with his elegant USB clock/web data display: When I built my Homemade Digital Clock, I shamelessly overdesigned it. It had an eight character alphanumeric display (plus two discrete LEDs for a colon), four more discrete LEDs for indicators, two printed circuit boards, and two microcontrollers (three, if you count the GPS […]
What It’s Like to be a Screenprinter
The One Week Job Tour highlights what it means to follow your passions, and for their first stop, they spend a week finding out what it’s like to be a screenprinter. Take a look.
Use Vintage Photos to Create Table Runner
CasaSugar inspires us with this great decorating idea from Oh So Beautiful Paper. Use vintage photos to create a table runner effect. Great ideas for dinner get-togethers and parties! CasaSugar writes: Depending on how dramatic you want to go (and how many pics you have), you may want to keep it on the table vs. […]