Instructables user heidiwickersham writes: Turn an unwanted or damaged blanket into a children’s sleeping bag for some summer camping fun! This is a fun and fairly simple project that beginners both young and old might enjoy.
Brooklynites, check out The Shift, starts tonight! THE SHIFT is a birthday benefit for Devotion Gallery and 319 Scholes. It includes an exhibition, art auction with all pieces capped at $250, multiple performances, high calibre live music, and workshops focused on music technology. If you missed the last year at these two ground breaking, kick-ass […]
This is understandable, really, because the chemical composition of many crayons, even if you ignore the wax binder and just focus on the coloring, is extraordinarily complicated, containing many different pigments carefully blended to achieve just the right color. Even if the formulations weren’t trade secrets, it’d be doubtful if many of them could be fit on a crayon label in a legible typeface.
This cute pleated skirt from Tiffany of Simply Modern Mom for Sew, Mama, Sew! works great for kids who need uniforms for school, but can also be made with more decorative fabric to be worn anytime. Better yet, after a little practice, the skirt can be made in under an hour!
Upon seeing the computer wire dress we posted earlier this week, Tamara Adlin wrote in to share her own recycled creation, made for the Haute Trash show in Seattle. More: Recycled computer wire dress
Check out the special CRAFT Project trunks in Evernote! Crafty recipes, sewing, and recycling projects are available. Works great on iPad, too (and my cat Beatrice approves)!
In 1942, shortly after Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt committed the U.S. economy to the production of 60,000 warplanes that year, and suggested that as many as 185,000 aircraft might be produced by the end of 1943. He turned out to be almost correct. In June 1944, TIME reported 171,257 aircraft produced since Pearl Harbor. In 1942, however, those were Herculean goals, yet to be achieved, and as part of an effort to help Americans understand the task before them, a fleet of 4,500 model airplanes was suspended from the ceiling of Chicago’s Union Station. Once you absorb the spectacle of 4,500 planes, of course, then comes the whammy: That’s only 1/48th of the production goal. The image above is 600 pixels wide. At that scale, if your monitor’s pitch is 72 dpi, an image of all 185,000 planes would be 33 feet wide. [via NOTCOT]
