A visit to All Hands Active
Last weekend, I had the great fortune to visit All Hands Active, an up-and-coming hackerspace in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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Custom billet aluminum iPhone cases
These stylish and attractive small batch iPhone cases from EXOvault are machined from solid pieces of billet aluminum. They add a retro-futuristic charm to something already heavy on the futuristic.
Yarn Harlot’s Knitting Olympics
These cute mascots are all about cheering on the actual Winter Olympics, but they also could serve as inspiration for the Yarn Harlot’s Knitting Olympics. Stephanie Pearl-McPhee is challenging knitting “athletes” to push themselves to the limit of their abilities and to take up a new knitting project that they can complete in 17 days. […]
Crafty Biz Spotlight: Bell and Trunk Flowers
One afternoon in sunny Potero Hill in San Francisco, this small shop Bell and Trunk Flowers caught my eye. I couldn’t help myself when I walked in to see the vintage decor filled with crocheted and knitted baby clothing and blankets that peppered the front area. Upon chatting with the owner Vanessa, I found out […]
Enter the New Crafty Chica Challenge: Love Shrine!
CRAFT and iLoveToCreate.com have teamed up to present to you the Crafty Chica Challenge: Love Shrine! Kathy Cano-Murillo, the Crafty Chica, has been making love shrines for the past 15 years. Using everything from mint tins to cigar boxes to even kitchen drawers, she transforms them into colorful art assemblages filled with objects, trinkets, mementos […]
How Vinyl Records are Made
For the last couple of years there has been a resurgence in popularity of vinyl records. In this short documentary from Nick Cavalier we get a behind-the-scenes look at the production of vinyl records at Gotta Groove Records, a new vinyl pressing plant in Cleveland, Ohio.
Leave a comment, get Extech loot!
Extech, maker of mutimeters and other measuring devices, has kindly contributed three nifty gadgets that will go to three random commenters! All you have to do is leave a comment saying what neat projects you’d use the gadgets for. At midnight tonight, PST, the giveaway ends and we’ll randomly choose three winners. And what prizes […]