Announcements

BurdaStyle Design and Pattern Contest

BurdaStyle writes: We are thrilled to announce our first BurdaStyle Design Competition. As an open source website, we are hoping to facilitate more creative opportunities for sewers all over the world. Now we’ve come up with the perfect way for you to contribute to the site as well as to your own trophy case, or […]

Trade a Craft

Leah Peterson has a cool site for craft trades. What’s this you ask? All you have to do is sign up on Leahpeah’s Trade a Craft site and upload a photo of your handmade item you want to trade by this Thursday. The trade happens on Friday, May 18th. Check the side bar for all […]

52 Projects Interview

A big thanks to Jeffrey Yamaguchi at the 52 Projects blog. He just did an interview with me and it’s posted now on the 52 projects blog. Also, if you are in need of creative inspiration, pick up a copy of his book, 52 Projects: Random Acts of Everyday Creativity. You can read my review […]

Save The Shipyard

Save The Shipyard

Dale has some sad news about the Shipyard in Berkeley, home to many many maker projects, he writes – The Shipyard in Berkeley, a collection of shipping containers and a collective for artists and tinkerers, was given three days by the city of Berkeley to “vacate and abate” or face fines of $2500/day. The Shipyard […]

TNT, Round 17: Spring Forward

The latest Tips-N-Tools is out, don’t forget if you send us in a tip you get a MAKE pocket ref! Arwen writes – My very dear Readers, I hadn’t thought of it this way before, but spring is all about knots: hammock knots, sailing knots, rock-climbing knots, tying-stuff-to-your-truck-to-take-it-to-the-dump knots. Keith Hammond, our copy chief extraordinaire, […]