How-To: Fabric Flowers
Hey! Jen Renee shares how to make two different kinds of fabric flowers with scraps of fabric you already have in your stash. They are seriously simple (think: pinch and stitch) and a great way to adorn all kinds of items.
Year: 2010
Ada Lovelace Day, celebrating women in technology
What’s Ada Lovelace Day? Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging (videologging, podcasting, comic drawing etc.!) to draw attention to the achievements of women in technology and science. Who was Ada? Ada Lovelace was one of the world’s first computer programmers, and one of the first people to see computers as more than […]
Yet more glass-cutting inspiration
Our coverage of glass-cutting continues to inspire inventive upcycling makers to dream up ways of improving the cutting process through various rolly jigs. Here, Adrian (“awalleigh” on Flickr) was inspired by Ben Light’s rolling pin rig to create one out of skateboard parts. Awalleigh’s photostream More: Glass-cutting rig from rolling pins How-To: Cut a wine […]
Intern’s Corner: Building the Geared Candleholder
Every other week, MAKE’s awesome interns tell about the projects they’re building in the Make: Labs, the trouble they’ve gotten into, and what they’ll make next. By Eric Chu, engineering intern Building the Geared Candleholder by Benjamin Cowden in MAKE Volume 21 is one of my proudest builds, but it was no walk in the […]
Winners of Felt Me a Smile
Congratulations to Emily from Kansas City, MO, Jennifer from Braceville, IL, and Bonney from Wilmot, NH for each winning a copy of the book, Felt Me a Smile by Toyoko Sugiwaka from our recent giveaway. Thanks to everyone who entered!
Microwave cart turned painting station
Craig Smith of the Firefly Workshop writes in: I had a $5 microwave cart from goodwill that ended up in my shop as a finishing table where I would paint, stain or varnish items on newspaper. It was bugging me that all the space underneath was unused, and my paints, stains and varnishes were in […]
Flashback: Reclaimed Vase
This month, with our UpCraft theme in full swing, we’ve seen a lot of really clever ideas for refreshing the old while keeping the landfills light on materials that can be reused. I love Natalie Friedman’s crafty project from CRAFT Volume 09 on how to transform a detergent bottle destined for (at best) the recycling […]