Chronicle Books recently released the awesome Stencil 101 book, featuring how-tos and stencil templates in all kinds of fun shapes. If you’d like to get started with stencil art and happen to live in or near Brooklyn, swing by the Stencil 101 release party happening this weekend. Stencil 101 Release Party Saturday, December 6, 4-6pm […]
HOW TO – Make a plush “irradiated sirloin”… Microcontroller night light illuminates meaty issues By Rebecca Stern – Faced with an assignment to make a plush night light, I thought, “Why light?” and brainstormed reasons for a stuffed toy to light up. In a glowworm toy, for instance, the light mimics nature. I’d been reading […]
I was looking for curtain fabrics when I stumbled on these computer desktop images of fabric from IKEA. Is it wrong that I’ve (temporarily) replaced my kids’ picture on my computer desktop with the Inger line….. ?
Jeffery Rudell shows how to make this holiday reindeer out of fusible interfacing over on Craft Stylish. You could do this to make any origami model sturdier; it’s a neat texture, too.
OK, so apparently I’ve been living under a rock, because I had no clue that Jay McCarroll (winner of the very first season of Project Runway) had been designing fabrics for FreeSpirit! Not sure when these fun, super-kooky prints will be in stores, but there are sneak peeks online of his Woodland Wonderland and Garden […]
In this week’s video, we take a visit to the new fabric store Whiz Bang Fabrics in San Francisco where owner Helen Fawcett shows us how to make some cool fabric wall art. Download the MP4 Video or HD Version | Subscribe to CRAFT in iTunes You can see more photos in my Flickr set […]
Jodie from Ric Rac can’t stop coming up with incredible projects using left over selvedge from sewing projects. She made this entire dress out of selvedge. It took her about 5 months and she needed selvedge donations to have enough. Related Selvedge Bag Selvedge Scarf
