Fussy-Cutting, and yes I believe it is a technical term, is the technique where you center your fabric’s motif in a block so that all the patterns can be cut to have the same motif (such as the flowers above). Janet at Primrose Design has a tutorial on how to make your own viewfinder to […]
Harari writes – Ever wanted to presurize your water bottle rocket and couldn’t find anything to stop the air from going out? Ever wanted to transfer water or air from one place to another the easy way ? well you better try this ! HOW TO – Check a valve from bottles and a table […]
CraftyGoat’s Notes has a tutorial on making a “mobile crafting station” — an altered clipboard project with bag to take your projects. Link.
Kids might need some help cutting some of the cardboard, but here’s a site called foldschool that has furniture you make from cardboard boxes. The downloadable patterns can be printed from any printer and you’ll be sitting in no time. Foldschool – cardboard furniture – Link.
For those that want an extra finished look, this tutorial by Yarn Cat show you how-to crochet-join your granny squares. I’m not sure if this is an easier method but your granny squares will be much more integrated. [ via ] Link. Related: Granny Along – Link.
For your eco-minded artists and crafters, Kathleen at Fashion-Incubator has “another dopey contest”, but this one is an important one. (Pictured above is a nylon shopping bag from reusablebags.com.) Kathleen writes: An article from this morning’s New York Times gives me the inspiration for a new design contest, that of recreating the humble reusable grocery […]
Jeez, this is a really beautiful LED project, source and schematics included – We set out to harness the power of the LED. As a single discrete element, the LED is a simple binary indicator. By grouping many LEDs together, like pixels, more and more information can be conveyed. The trick is to find the […]
