This Forbes.com article, A Blinking Fashion Statement, gives some nice publicity to the smart crafting movement and DIY wearable electronics: For all their talk of breaking glass ceilings, Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton have nothing on Leah Buechley. In the several years since she first sewed a circuit board to a T-shirt, the 31-year-old University […]
If I were a teacher grading papers, “A” would stand for “All Your Base Are Belong To Us,” now available in stamp form. Via BoingBoing.
Ginger Anyhow explores the world of digital love with her series of embroidered text messages documenting her previous (?) romance sparked and extinquished. Thanks Forrest O!
A TV-B-Gone is a small device that turns off most televisions. It’s handy for dining out, except everyone gives you funny looks while you use it, so I decided to embed it in a hooded sweatshirt. I made a switch by using the metal zipper pull. When it bridges the space between the two pads […]
Fourteen year-old CRAFT reader Marielle Riley of Naperville, Illnois says her favorite operating system is Linux. She decided to create her own LED Penguin Softie based off one of her own drawings (pictured left). She hand-sewed the softie and added a string of battery powered LEDs to light up the body gem.
Want to know which local yarn shop near you has classes or even Wifi? Enter Knitmap, a handy site where you can enter in your zip code or address and you’ll be able find a yarn shop with just the stuff you need. There’s even an iPhone friendly version of the site. [ via Handmade […]
Shannon at knitgrrl points to the beautiful genome quilt designs of Beverly St. Clair, where she has created a way to encode DNA information into her quilt art. Pictured above is the Human Red Cone Pigment Gene. From the site, Beverly’s origins of her genome quilt designs: My idea for genome quilts grew from the […]
