Lee Meredith of Leethal Knits shares her tutorial for making jewelry from recycled wool sweaters. The project comes from a series of classes she taught over the summer in Portland, Oregon, and she also includes pictures of a few projects from her students. As she mentions, the techniques are simple and the creative possibilities are […]
A friend of mine recently finished a deck remodel, whose highlight (literally) is a transparent corrugated roof that diffuses sunlight in a delightful way. This inspired me to find some way to continue that glow after sunset, in the form of a lantern illuminated by tea light candles.
There are many colors and styles of corrugated roofing available, and whole 8-foot sheets (Sequentia brand) are $23 at my local lumberyard — that’s enough material for up to 10 lanterns. The kind my friend used for the deck is fiberglass-reinforced plastic (FRP), which diffracts light with a sparkly halo. After some feverish experimenting with cut-off scraps, I eventually came up with the graceful lantern design shown here.
Sean @ MAKE writes: Tristin Lowe is the artist behind this 50-foot whale made of industrial felt over an inflatable form. No jokes about the name, please.
Linda Permann shares a simple hand sewing technique for attaching crocheted embellishments to clothing in this tutorial on Crochet Today.
Here’s an awesome guide to making a monster/demon costume from foam. This one is Sammael from Hellboy. With a costume that detailed, you better start soon if you’re going to have it done by Halloween!
To keep a nice book nice, and to disguise one that’s been defaced, sew a simple fabric book cover. Plus, text book cover designs are usually utilitarian at best, and ugly at worst. Your books will stay protected from the constant ins and outs of lockers and backpacks.
I have always enjoyed cooking and baking with a recipe. I like to follow exact instructions and then, hopefully, there are no surprises. Other people like to make it up as they go along, adding dashes of different flavors until they arrive at a taste they like. However, I have made a few t-shirt quilts following specific directions and they never turn out the way I want. They always end up too square and blocky. Since I had a number of cute t-shirts that I didn’t wear anymore (from the cluttered days of my Threadless addiction), I decided to experiment with making a freestyle, dash-of-this-pinch-of-that t-shirt quilt.
