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Pringles-can lens extender produces dazzling ultra close-ups for peanuts. Get the PDF for this project here: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/12/weekend_project_macro_photography_o.html. More great projects at: http://www.makezine.com
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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 work with than plied yarn. I asked one of my professors, fibers artist Jerry Bleem, if he could teach my class how to ply yarn, or twist the singles together into a single strand, and in this video he does just that. Plied yarn is also much easier to work with on a knitting machine than non-plied yarn because there’s less of a chance of one of the individual fibers catching where it’s not supposed to. If you have a crafty question, send it on over to me at becky@craftzine.com for use in a future installment of Ask CRAFT!
For more info go to: http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2009/03/ask_craft_plying_yarn.html
Fledgling is a metal kinetic sculpture that is anatomically similar to an eagle. Under the watchful eye of Christian Ristow, Participants at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011 climb up the staircase along its spine, and sit in the ribcage where they can pedal furiously in order to slowly move the bird’s wings in mimicry of flight. http://www.christianristow.com/ http://makerfaire.com/pub/e/4990
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