I have become a snacker. (Pregnancy does that to you.) I’m always carting around pieces of fruit, little baggies of nuts, pumpkin seeds, crackers, or what have you. And once I have a baby to cart around as well, I’m guessing Cheerios (or some variant) will figure large in my life. So how stoked was […]
Jenny from Chronically Uncool shares the process she and designer, MissBlackPepper, went through to create this Tetris-inspired fabric. She’s also offering the design for download through A Dress A Day. Jenny is releasing her Tetris-style fabric design file under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license. If you get a copy of the file, […]
The cover star of CRAFT Volume 08, the Weaving issue, Travis Meinolf continues to be up to great things. He regularly updates his Action Weaver blog with his newest happenings, workshops, and weaves. One of the coolest projects he worked on as of late is a collaboration with tailor Roy Slaper. Back in 2007, Travis […]
Cicada Studio has a tutorial up for covering a simple IKEA lampshade in fabric.
I just revisited an old friend: CRAFT Volume 01! I had almost forgotten what tasty morsels of crafting our premiere issue offered back in October of 2006. I’ve always loved cutting-edge crafter Leah Buechley‘s “Electric Tank Top” project. As Leah had written in the intro, “Although challenging, everyone should play with this stuff! It’s great […]
The Marimekko blog has been showing some sneak previews of new fabrics on the way for Spring. There’s some lovely, lovely stuff comin up–be sure to take a look!
I sometimes take for granted that we have an IKEA in town (or at least in one of our suburbs), so this tea towel design from Skinny laMinx reminded me that I’m lucky to be able to hop in the car anytime I need to satisfy my Swedish home furnishing needs. Based in South Africa, […]
