Embroidered Napkin and Crochet Napkin Ring Pattern
Craft Leftovers has a new pattern on how to make her Fancy Fricking Napkins by sewing and embroidering your own napkins and crocheting a beaded napkin ring. Link.
Month: March 2007
DIY bike light
Kevin writes – This page describes the construction of a bike light comprising three 3W Luxeon LEDs. This project had three main goals. 1.) Make a light suitable for use in 24-hour mountain bike racing. 2.) Use readily available material as much as possible. 3.) Offer the details to the community and invite any and […]
Otedama – Japanese Juggling Game/Beanbags
Yes even juggling gets crafty! Diane at CraftyPod writes, “Otedama is a Japanese juggling game, and the name also refers to these wonderful handmade Japanese juggling beanbags. The’re made from fabric or crochet, and filled with various things — beans, gravel, rice, etc.” Link.
Floors and furniture… made from cow manure
There isn’t a how-to (yet) – but this seems like an interesting new particle board material… Home-buyers of tomorrow could find themselves walking across floors made from manure. That’s no cow pie-in-the-sky dream, according to researchers at Michigan State University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. They say fiber from processed and sterilized cow manure […]
Felted Styrofoam Egg
To complement her cashmere bunnies which we posted about here, Betz White’s made a simple felted egg over a styrofoam one. What a great idea! I love the polka dot look too. Link.
Bluetooth proximity detection on Mac OS X
This is pretty interesting, set your Mac (and phone) to automatically log you in/out and do a variety of tasks when you get close to your computer, or away – [via] Link. Pictured here, the Bluetooth ninja, by Christian.
Maker Faire 2006 wins FOLIO FAME award
Phil @ MAKE writes: Congrats to our entire team for the 2006 Maker Faire and to all our Makers, attendees and everyone else who made it a great first event for us last year! Make magazine’s Maker Faire won the gold for “BEST SPECIAL EVENT” as the second-ever FOLIO FAME awards were given out today […]