I absolutely love this gorgeous pillow from A Ervilha Cor de Rosa, a fantastic Portuguese craft blog (she often posts both in Portuguese and English, or you can use Google translate ). Rosa gets a really soft but lovely contrast from using both right and wrong sides of the jean fabric.
From the CRAFT Flickr pool, user funnypolynomial writes: Quite a while ago I came up with the idea of creating an ASCII chart done as an old-school cross-stitched Sampler, I liked the juxtaposition of the modern and the old. I started the project (stitching the grid) but became discouraged by the slow progress. So I […]
Shepherdess, Louise Fairburn, of Rsiby, England, was recently married wearing a stunning wedding gown that was made from wool from her own flock. The dress took a spinner and a dressmaker 67 hours to create, and was made from a rare Lincoln Longwool. More pictures and the full story are here.
Today is Craftzine.com’s 3rd birthday! If you can believe it, I posted the very first post back on this day in 2006. Now with over 9,000 posts and seven editors, we’re doing our best to bring you original craft projects and features, as well as the best of crafts we’re spotting on the web. Thanks to everyone for reading us each day!
Hayford Bempong, David Celestin and Michael Amankwanor from Accra Polytechnic set up a local Maker Faire Africa radio station. The group announced upcoming activities, broadcasting at 101.7 FM, and could be heard up to a couple thousand meters away using gear they designed and fabricated from scratch.
Maker Faire Africa flickr pool
www.makerfaireri.com My first visit to Rhode Island was in 1990. I vividly remember getting off I-95 at the downtown Providence exit and being confronted by a multi-story pile of dirt at the end of the ramp. I became lost as I wandered beneath the highway overpasses, challenged to find the heart of the city. After […]
