Month: December 2008

HOW TO – Make buttons

In this Thing video, Steve Reeder of Motmot Shop in Vienna, demonstrates how to make pinback buttons. Buttons were one of the things I first got serious about making as a tween. I saved up my allowance money and bought a hand-held button-making machine. I even had something of a cottage industry for a time, […]

MAKE on GOOD (video)

I was on GOOD’s video show today, a more positive spin on all the “depression talk”…. So, we’re in a recession: now what? Consumer spending is down and the common (wo)man has been forced to cut back. But there’s no reason to go without. Phillip Torone, senior editor at Make, visits the GOOD News studio […]

HOW TO – Tag Monster Toy

Sew, Mama, Sew! tips us off to Craft Schmaft’s Tag Monster project, a handmade stuffy who was created because the stitcher’s son is obsessed with tags and labels. “I created a little softie for my baby boy, Oscar, earlier this year called the Tag Monster. Oscar is obsessed with labels. You know those little tags […]