Craft & Design

You Should Already Know About Becky Stern

You Should Already Know About Becky Stern

If you don’t know who Becky Stern is, it’s not her fault. She’s prolific. She’s worked at Make:, Adafruit, places of higher learning, and given talks all over the nation. Any decent write up of her work could easily take up a small novella, or a shelf worth of alternative yet action packed zines. But for […]

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How-To: Crocheted Washer Sewing Pattern Weights

How-To: Crocheted Washer Sewing Pattern Weights

Sometimes you have to craft something for the specific purpose of crafting something else, just like our own Haley Pierson-Cox has done with these adorably crocheted washers to be used as sewing pattern weights.

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Cardboard: In Praise of an Underappreciated Material

Cardboard: In Praise of an Underappreciated Material

You might not be aware of it but your home has an infestation of the most abundant, versatile, free and under-utilized crafting and prototyping material ever made. A gift from the consumer driven economy we overlook everyday.

This material is sitting cluttered in scattered piles in the basement and in crawl spaces, is buried within dusty mounds in the garage and is waiting to be discarded while overflowing in the recycling bin.

The material I am referring to is good old grade-A cardboard!

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