Geek Crafts

TARDIS Travel Sewing Kit

Here’s a thing of beauty from Craftster member Joesuplicki. It’s a wooden model of Doctor Who’s TARDIS. Remove the top, and the walls open out on hinges to reveal a full complement of sewing supplies! For pete’s sake, there are even modeled pin-heads representing Doctor Who characters. I may need to go lie down now.

Mathematical Beadwork

George @ MAKE showcases these really cool examples of mathematical beadwork structures by Kazunori Horibe. Looking closely at one example, you can see how the surface curvature depends on the structure. Generally, six-sided cycles correspond to an infinite tessellation of hexagons, which makes a flat plane or can be rolled into a cylinder. But in […]

Death Star Dress

Our pal Bonnie Burton has an interview with crafter and Star Wars superfan, Jennifer Landa, over on StarWars.com about her rad Death Star dress she made and wore to Comi-Con. There were times when I thought the skirt wouldn’t work. Originally, I tried making the skirt out of a giant soccer ball pinata! That was […]