Check out Etsy’s new video series There’s No Place Like Here, where creative types show off their unique spaces — infused with their aesthetic and filled with the treasures they collect. This video features a tour of design duo Something’s Hiding In Here. You’ll get to visit their Philadelphia loft, full of woodland goodies, refinished […]
In this week’s video, I’ll show you how to turn a 2D barcode into a knitted scarf! This is a fun way to get information from a garment into an electronic device, such as a cell phone equipped with a barcode-scanning camera. Anyone who takes a picture of my scarf can decode the message. I […]
Next up in Etsy’s Handmade Portrait series is this video about Holly Stewart, aka Artstew, who makes artwork using dispersed dyes on polyester. Great story!
When I posted about the amazing yarn I customized at Yarnia in Portland, OR, I got a lot of questions about plying yarn. At Yarnia the yarn is wound together from many “singles,” or individual strands of yarn to make up one unit, but the strands remain individual, making it a little more difficult to […]
Kayte Terry of this is love forever show’s how to make an embellished mat in a frame or a custom fabric frame from scratch in this Etsy How-Tuesday video. Find the full project materials and write up of the how-to on Etsy.
I have a mug made by the very talented Ayumi Horie that I use almost every day. She sends out one of the few email newsletters that I actually read! (For those of you in the Kansas City area, she’s teaching a workshop on Dry Throwing as well as the best way to get your […]
At the last Phoenix DIY meeting, Lisa Jacobs ran a paper making workshop. We learned how to use recycled office paper as the base for art papers, to which we added colored napkins for pigment and dried flowers, glitter, conductive thread, and many others as “inclusions,” the things that jazz up the paper inside and […]
