Altered Sneakers
Amy of Craft Chi has a great tutorial on how to revamp your old sneakers (left), hers are these classic Converse Chuck Taylors, into some altered goodness (right). Link.
Month: March 2007
HOW TO – Make low cost Hydrophone (listen to fish & whales talk)
MisterB sent in this video on how to convert a simple toy microphone into a hydrophone to listen to underwater sounds – Link & kit on eBay.
Crochet Roundup
The craft tutorials blog informs us that it’s actually National Crochet Week this week. How great is that? I love the projects she’s gathered, some of them favorites on the CRAFT blog like the Bobble Headband. But these 2 above, the crochet dork wallet by Jetson and the fried egg cuffs by Monster Crochet have […]
Paper Dolls by Chez Plum
Sylvie at Chez Plum who has contributed to our CRAFT Pattern Podcast here and here, has also created a cute set of paper dolls named Lola,Tom, and Nina. Sylvie writes: I made them so you can move the legs, arm and heads by attaching them to the body either with a bit of scrap yarn […]
HOW TO – Make your own instrumented glove
Alex writes – I have always found it a challenge to make things at virtually no hardware cost, using old parts in innovative combinations. Whilst such projects are usually quite time consuming, they do give you the pleasure of “being independent of the industry” and their picture of the state of the art of technology. […]
TNNA Summer Student Interships – Pathways into Professional Needlearts
TNNA, The National NeedleArts Association, along with University of Akron. is sponsoring a summer student internship program, PiPN, Pathways into Professional Needlearts. PiPN is designed to introduce young people to professional needlearts and to provide them with a pathway into this growing industry. From the site: This is the second year of the program. During […]
The tikker
In the comments of the “Mechanical hit counter project” daan__ writes – “I built something like this from a old telephone counter: (it makes a nice sound in our lab )” – Link.