The most incredible thing I’ve seen in London so far has got to be the textile room at the Victoria and Albert Museum, although if you’re there, you can’t help seeing their fantastic exhibits on fashion, ironwork, and, right now, Kylie Minogue. The textile room is an absolutely incredible resource, whether you are an embroiderer, […]
Craftbits has great project on making a Kimono style needleholder roll. I love the extra pocket at the bottom for circular needles or other notions. Link.
The Purl Bee has Kathy Merrick’s Babette Blanket, with lots of tips like how to pick colors, charting the color combinations, and more. The blanket is featured in Interweave Crochet’s Spring 2006 issue. You can also upload your finished Babette Blanket to the flickr pool. Link.
Make your own “war games” battleship-like game from Modern Mechanix 1932 You fight real, deadly battles on a small scale in these fascinating war games, which have all the strategic elements of nation-against-nation campaign. Exploding battleships, forts and tanks and an accurate long – range mortar compose your fighting forces, built as described in this […]
The New Yorker has a great article about Robert Lang, physicist turned origami pro (we’ve covered his work on MAKE a lot)… One of the few Americans to see action during the Bug Wars of the nineteen-nineties was Robert J. Lang, a lanky Californian who was on the front lines throughout, from the battle of […]
Arnezami from the Doom9 forums slurped out the processing key that can unlock every HD DVD and Blu-Ray disc, regardless of how any of us feel about these wonky multiple formats and DRM, reading the forum messages on how this was accomplished is a lot of fun… …then I realized why I first didn’t find […]
Rick sent word about the Winnipeg DIY Festival – February 17 and 18, 2007 – in Winnipeg, Manitoba. If we have makers out there, take some photos and let us know how it went! Link.
