Needle Felted Pinball Bumper Necklace
Learn needle felting basics from Moxie and make this pinball bumper necklace in this episode of the CRAFT Video.
Month: April 2011
Fabric Scraps To Go
Shim and Sons has been selling fun grab bags and boxes of fabric scraps this spring, so that got me thinking, thanks to our UpCraft month – why not create bags of scraps to swap or share with friends? Might be a fun excuse to get some crafty friends together!
Crochet Viking Costume
Lish @ CRAFT writes: My crafty Michigan pal Veronica Knight crocheted her very own viking costume, complete with epic beard, for Halloween last year and will be using it as her entry into this weekend’s Motor City Beard and Moustache Championships. Enjoy this achievement in crochet work with me, won’t you?
Book Review: Drawing Nature – A Journal By Jill Bliss
Psst! I’m going to tell you a secret. I am very intimidated by a blank sketchbooks. That’s why I love the new art journal called Drawing Nature by Jill Bliss. Today is the first stop on her blog tour and I am so excited to share with you this great book. The beautiful journal is […]
A Better Bitters Filter
John Park @ MAKE writes: “I enjoy making my own cocktail bitters, which involves steeping things like herbs, roots, barks, rinds, and more in high-proof alcohol for a few weeks, and then straining the mixture.”
Free Web Accessible Visual Regular Expression Generator
Mark is a programmer who hates writing regular expressions. So he wrote a kind of visual regular expression generator that starts with the string to be searched, identifies recognizable patterns in it, and lets you select those you want. Then it outputs a working (albeit probably inelegant) regular expression to get the job done. The commentariat over at txt2re.com is somewhat predictably divided between grateful regex amateurs and annoyed experts. [via Boing Boing]
New In the Maker Shed: Pendulum Challenge Kit
The Pendulum Challenge Kit from the Maker Shed includes everything you need to build the project featured in MAKE, Volume 26. At the heart of the system is a pre-programmed PIC micro controller that runs the internal state machine which processes the game’s switch inputs and drives the LED outputs. This kit is easy to […]