How-To: Rick Rack Rings
Maize Hutton takes our favorite crafty trim and turns them into these rick rack rings shaped like roses.
Month: February 2011
Interactive Parametrics Workshop Announcement
Gil Akos, of modeLab, sent us information on this upcoming event, entitled Interactive Parametrics, a collaborative workshop with Marius Watz and MakerBot Industries/Bre Pettis: Studio Mode/modeLab is pleased to announce the fourth installment of the coLab workshop series: Interactive Parametrics. Interactive Parametrics is a two-day Processing workshop (with an optional third day) focusing on dynamic […]
Cookie-Cutter-Free Heart Cookies
The Family Room has a good tip to take a plain roll of frozen roll of cookie dough and make them into heart shapes without a cookie cutter.
Anatomy of a Linocut by Bill Fick
This mini documentary film of printmaker Bill Fick at work on an amazingly intricate giant linocut is mesmerizing to watch. See the piece come together from start to finish over on his blog. [via Printeresting and Tugboat Printshop]
Crafty Events
A weekly roundup of craft fairs and a call for vendors.
Skill Builder: Tuning Planes and Chisels
Master woodworker Len Cullum shows you how sharpen, or “tune” your woodworking chisels and planes.
Printed Modular Buckyball Lamp
Michael Rule of Providence, Rhode Island, printed the 12 pentagonal and 20 hexagonal modules of his Atomic Sun lamp on a MakerBot. I have to say, it looks more like a viral capsid to me, but I can see why one might want to avoid that as a name. The models are available on Thingiverse.