http://www.adventuresindressmaking.com/2010/05/made-my-own-mod-cloth-dress.html#.UYAD_atNZyk http://iheartjennysart.com/2011/04/kimono-dress/
Category: Projects
neck tie obi belt
This is super simple but super easy with good style payoff. I am currently noodling around with how to refine the idea or just adapt it to a sewing recon class lesson.
Busted LCD monitor turned into a light box
As an artist I thought this was awesome… great way to have a portable nice light table for low and good green fuzzies. [via hack-a-day]
Book light using binger clip
This is a cool little light made from two LED’s a coin cell batter binder clips and a piece of paper. I thought it very cleaver and I like to ready about women hackers makin’ stuff. via: lifehacker
DIY Lighted Constellation Canvas
This was a quick (relatively) easy fun mood lighting piece from Threadbanger I am thinking a mod using some smaller pin lights like these from Elemental LED would be cool too! (And it can be hooked up to a battery with ease.
DIY Activity Book
The folks over at Cosmo Cricket have a nifty tutorial on how to make a activity “book”. I thought it was a neat idea and takes the “book bag” concept further.
Pattern Finds: March 2013
And this is what I found of interest this month: http://www.burdastyle.com/pattern_store/patterns/embellished-dress-122010 http://www.burdastyle.com/pattern_store/patterns/072011-dress-with-pin-tucks-plus-size
Failure to pulsing responsive EL wire
So the music they chose was a little rav-a-riffic but imagine it done to say the music from the Guns of Navarone? Months of Failure lead up to this EL panel dimmer that pulses to the music via hackaday.com
Easy Slippers
These look like an ideal project for Hacker Scouts and the laser cutter at Ace Monster Toys. A quick satisfying project found Green Dump and designed by Gaspard Tiné-Berès. http://www.greendump.net/weburbanist/single-step-slippers-made-of-one-shoelace-strip-of-felt
Pop up pixels
So I like pop up cards. I especially like making them. When my youngest was in school I used to make them all the time… and I miss it. While killing time I came across this post from manmadediy.com How to maek 3D Pixel pop up christmas cards
Rubber stamps… with lasers
Here is the results: My goal here is to make rubber stamps using a laser cutter… I just don’t have the patients to do much hand carving. This is the product I am aiming to try: http://www.rubberstampmaterials.com/laserengravablerubberandpolymer.aspx I know it is possible because YouTube tells me so.
LilyPond
http://lilypond.media.mit.edu/ Cool little e-textile project site.
Open Source Pattern Links
Fickle Sense circle skirt tutorial What the Craft circle skirt tutorial BH&G circle panel skirt Awesome Wrap Skirt Tutorial
A most awesome fibery bits scarf
How cool is this î Seriously. This little gem was found here: http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=403286.0
Cargo Scarf
This is a sweet little instructable. instructables.com/id/Cargo-Scarf%3a-Free-your-hands%2c-and-your-mind-will-f/