Crochet Jellyfish
Alicia Kachmar made these cute crochet jellyfish. There’s lots of cute photos and she says she’ll put up the pattern soon on her blog or Etsy. Link.
Month: June 2007
Extracting a 3D Model from drawings
Perspective techniques to extract a 3D model from a painting, nice! – Constructing 3D models of buildings is all about extracting the geometry from images using photogrammetric techniques. As such, although it goes against basic geometric principles it also lends itself to historic reconstruction via referenced hand drawn images. Over eight years ago we used […]
Liesl+Co. Backpack Tote Pattern
Purl Soho is selling this great convertable backpack/tote pattern by Liesl+Co. You can buy the pattern by itself for $15 or for $24 with accompanying antique gold or silver hardware. See more photos of the bag on designer Liesl’s blog, Distressed. Link.
Dirty Don’s Margarita maker
SCA Scot writes – Sara’s uncle Don is a bit of a tinkerer. So, when you’ve got a small-block 400, a trailer, assorted parts and the ability to custom fabricate a 6-inch tall replica of a blender blade out of stainless steel, what do you do with your spare time? Make the world’s fastest margarita […]
Quilters of Gee’s Bend Seeking Rights
Garth of Extreme Craft has an interesting follow up story to the quilters of Gee’s Bend and the person who discovered them, Bill Arnett. Garth writes: Quilter Annie Mae Young, who created some of the most iconic works to come out of Gee’s Bend, filed a lawsuit last week aimed at Bill Arnett and his […]
Singing Tesla Coil
Wow, this Tesla coil can play music, it even plays some Super Mario action … The site/maker says This is a solid-state Tesla coil. The primary runs at its resonant frequency in the 41 KHz range, and is modulated from the control unit in order to generate the tones you hear. Singing Tesla Coil – […]
HOW TO – Make bacon soap
Goooooood morning Makers, it’s time to make soap… from bacon, with the latest episode of New Know How – Soap can be made from just about any kind of fat. Even though fat from bacon, called lard, isn’t the finest of fats to use for making soap, it somehow seemed to be the most exciting. […]