Holiday Gift Guide 2012: 11 Crafty Books to Give and Get
Sometimes all a crafter wants is inspiration, and there’s nothing like a good craft book for that. Here are 11 crafty books that are perfect to wrap up as holiday gifts.
Books and Magazines
Book Giveaway: BurdaStyle Sewing Vintage Modern
We’re giving away a copy of BurdaStyle Sewing Vintage Modern to 3 lucky CRAFT readers!
Cyber Monday at O’Reilly
If you recently acquired an ebook reader, tablet, or smartphone and are looking to expand your technical library with quality ebook and video titles, then you’ll be happy to know that today you can save 50% on all ebooks and videos from oreilly.com. That means that copy of Encyclopedia of Electronic Components, Arduino Cookbook, Getting […]
$3 Mystery Books in the Maker Shed
The Maker Shed has too many books and we need to get them out of the way. Rather than continue tripping over them, throwing them at each other, and using them for broom hockey pucks, we’ve decided to sell them as Mystery Books for just $3.00 a piece. Yes, really.
Flashback: Portfolio, a Project Excerpt From Reinvention by Maya Donenfeld
Maya Donenfeld of Maya*Made is well known in the craft…
Flashback: Criminal Crafts Project Excerpt: How to Make a Glue Gun Bandolier
I love crafts with a bit of an edge to them, and the projects in the new book, Criminal Crafts, from Shawn Bowman (a.k.a Miss Demeanor,) deliver edge in a big way. Criminal Crafts: Outlaw Projects for Scoundrels, Cheats, and Armchair Detectives is a sassy manifesto of 30 projects steeped in noir and espionage culture. […]
Text Tool: Eight Amazing Engineering Stories
Regular readers will probably recognize Bill Hammack’s name, by now, and require no introduction to him or his work. Engineer Guy series #4 is the first to include a companion book. Bill sent me a copy of Eight Amazing Engineering Stories back in May, shortly after the first video in the new series came out, and I read it more-or-less as intended, following along with each of its eight chapters as the corresponding videos were released.
