Tribble Trivet Crochet Pattern
Kristin at Craft Leftovers shares this beautiful tribble trivet crochet pattern — perfect as a potholder.
Month: August 2009
How-To: Make a Craft/Tool Station And Organizer
Monica at CraftyNest shares how she took a found piece of railing and transformed it into this wall-mounted craft organizer. She’s also included notes on additions she made to her existing rolling toolbox to make the craft/tool station complete!
TubeSat – Personal satellite kit?
This appears to be a “satellite kit” for $8k via /. Planet Earth has entered the age of the Personal Satellite with the introduction of Interorbital’s TubeSat Personal Satellite (PS) Kit. The new IOS TubeSat PS Kit is the low-cost alternative to the CubeSat. It has three-quarters of the mass (0.75-kg) and volume of a […]
CRAFT Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
This week in the CRAFT Flickr pool we saw: Plush Angler Fish by FeltedChicken, Jolly Roger Hat for Babies by Uyek, Sheree’s alchemy’s sewing students (so cute), and marshmallow art by chiccookiekits.
Prehistoric lumber
Ancientwood, Ltd., is a US company that imports 50,000-year-old Kauri logs that have been preserved for millennia in peat bogs under New Zealand’s northern island. Besides its value as a conversation piece, ancient Kauri is mined, rather than logged, and no live trees are killed in the process. Kauri trees (Agathis spp.) thrive in New […]
Through-color MDF
German chemical giant BASF pioneered the technology to colorize the traditionally blah-colored world of manufactured wood products like medium-density fiberboard (MDF). Besides requiring no or little finishing, through-color MDF will not betray scrapes or scratches like painted material. It has been available in Europe for awhile now, but only relatively recently in the US through […]
How-To: Glassworking techniques for bottles
Mike Firth is a hobby glassblower in Dallas, Texas. His site includes a great page on a variety of techniques that can be applied to reclaimed glass bottles, including several methods of cutting them. The site also describes more exotic bottle-working techniques like slumping, stretching, drilling, and blowing out.