This awesome seahorse pillow (or plushie) tutorial is way more approachable than I had thought it would be. The tutorial is from Katie over on matsutake.blogspot.fr. [via Sewing Corner]
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Cleanliness is next to… washing wearable electronics
I was zinging around and found this most excellent video about washing your wearable electronic projects by Becky Stern over at Adafruit. It is worth a the watch. [via laughing squid]
The best face hugging knitwear of the season
As a child the movie Alien had a profound effect on me. Having been taken to see it at the drive it by my older sister, I still to this day remember the sensation of hiding the back seat only to peek out and see the juicy bits and let the suspense build. Now years later I …
This week in crazy gorgeous: Twilled paper necklace
and tooI came across this awesome twilled paper necklace by littlecircles on craftster.org and just about lost my mind. I love the detail inherent in the work and the composition and colors are fab as well. Little circles also has some truly amazing art posted, free tutorials and a shop at littlecircles.net/ While it is much more likely that …
Stickers that really rock… as components!
I came across these little components from Chibitrontics the other day and the very concept was juicy. As somebody who does a lot of prototyping for sewing and crafting project the interchangeability of these components was really intriguing. The best information on on the stickers is on their crowdsupply.com page. [via hackaday]
Electric ornaments… because why not. A new freebie.
I posted a little freebie up on instrucables.com complete with .dxf files and paper patterns.
Badass 3D printed Sugar Skull
This has to be simply the best mash up of tradition and modern technology that I have ever seen in a sugar skull. The folks over at The Sugar Lab (Cubify) commissioned this amazing sugar skull by Josh Harker. Want so want! [via Mad Art Lab]
Added funk to a boring blazer
This could be groovy… could be over the top… but is sure a quick and satifying way to modify a blazer pretty darn quick.
Swants! The stylish way to save the planet
A little bit about waste reduction the fun way. The rich world… mostly western generates an obscence amount of textile based landfill trash every day. There is a short story about it here on UpWorthy.com. A ton of other documentation about what consumer culture does to people and the planet when it comes to clothes is …
Mind blown: DIY laser guided scissors
This is great… I can’t wait to go make mine. As anybody who has spent countless hours cutting patterns knows staying accurate pays off. Two ways to be ultra accurate; one go really slow and careful; two use better tools. I am not a patient person when it comes to cutting so route number two …
Damn right, Take Back Halloween
Sexy taxi driver, sexy nurse, sexy zombie… the “sexy” costume market is anything but sexy. Especially when manufactures take it to awful kids costumes. The initiative to make all women’s costumes sexy dumbs down women AND costumes. Arrrrrgghhh. This was brought to my attention this morning. TakeBackHalloween.org. It is an awesome site. So many great ideas! Ideas that acknowledge …
Awesome Pictures from 2013 East Bay Mini Maker Faire
Bricks! Now more than dead weight
I was starved for visually appealing ideas that I could use with all the salvage bricks in my garden. This is a bit of work but I love how this looks! Reading Light Melbourne has come up with something awesome and original. [via Mr. Kate]
New Designs for East Bay Mini Maker Faire
At East Bay Mini Maker Faire I will be doing a Free Hands on workshop. These are the new designs of laser cut fleece.
LED Prosthetics for an awesome halloween make-up
This is a super neat idea that could be leveraged as is or in less expensive formats. Generally just super cool as always from Becky Stern. [via makezine.com]