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Dye Your Own Yarn, Naturally
Natural dyeing is a great way to learn more about the plants growing around you, as well as how your yarn is processed.

Otedama
Need to improve your hand-eye coordination?

Halloween Skull Truffles
Halloween has always been my favorite holiday, but when it comes to dessert, my tastes have matured towards the gourmet.

Need to know what time it is, but don’t own a phone, computer, microwave, or any of the other 100 clocks you probably already have?

Copper Pipe Alcohol Lamp
The Pop-Pop Steamboat in MAKE Volume 28 calls for using small tea candles for the engine’s heat source, but I found that it didn’t work very well.

Haunted House Silhouettes
Turn the windows of your home into a dramatic Halloween luminary with these simple paper-cut silhouettes.

Paper Scrap Picture Frame
Here’s a great recycling project to subscribe to – transform a few pages from an old magazine into a brand new picture frame.

Modular Colorwork Yarn Holders
When working on a knitting or crochet project that uses multiple colors, trying to keep the balls of yarn from tangling can be an absolute nightmare – especially if you’re crafting on the go or using a persnickety fiber.

Build a Makerspace
Introduction by Dale Dougherty, founder of MAKE How do we give young people more opportunities to become makers and learn practical skills they can apply to their own creative projects?

Plant Light Stand
If you aren’t fortunate enough to have a heated greenhouse but still want to start your own plants from seed in the winter, this inexpensive plant light stand will get your plants growing — even in a dark, dungeon-like basement.

Water Leak Detector
The average life expectancy of a hot water heater is about 10 years, so it’s not a question of if it will leak — it’s simply a matter of when.

Tape-Hinge Acrylic Box Construction
If you have a router and the means to cut a straight line with it, this trick for building a 5-sided acrylic box is considerably easier than the common slab-joint method, and gives better-looking results, to boot.