Last summer I fell in love with an embroidered portrait of Martha Stewart I spied around Flickr and on the Adorn magazine blog. It was created by one of my favorite crafters, Erika Kern of My Imaginary Boyfriend. I finally got a chance to see it in person at the November 2007 edition of Felt […]
Think of it as a 21st century take on ’70s van art, for your dining room. Modding my apartment. (Making a new door) [via] – Link
Karyn at Fat Orange Cat writes in with this great tutorial from Bettyninja on how to turn a checkered tablecloth into a picnic-themed pleated purse – Link.
From Geekdad: The KidWind Project is run out of Michael Arquin’s basement in St. Paul, MN, and is all about educating kids about wind power. One part of this is offering really cool wind turbine kits from their website for home assembly and use in science fair presentations. These kits look like great Geekdad family […]
Free patterns make me happy; I learn every day from the free knowledge others publish. Here’s a cute and free pattern from Craft Bits to crochet a stumpy-legged octopus – Link.
Chris shows you how to make a really interesting close “proximity radar system” using IR – Link. Related: Make – Volume 10 – Radar Speed Detector (DIY: Circuits) (Page 148) – Link.
Kevin writes in to alert us of the upcoming Peep competition. From the Chicago Tribune: The idea is to build a diorama with Peeps as the leading characters. (We’re not being original here; we stole the idea from The Washington Post, which did it last year after stealing the idea from the St. Paul Pioneer […]
