how can you NOT smile at these?

potato portraits from ginou choueiri


(ht: shit we're diggin' at wooster collective

an entire village - knit

here are the pictures

Knitted village put up for sale

The knitted village will be publicly displayed so people can buy their favourite object

A knitted replica of a Kent village with 100 features including teenagers smoking in a bus shelter has been put up for sale.

The model of Mersham, near Ashford, has been knitted by members of the village's 40-strong Afternoon Club over the past 23 years.

The group has raised about £10,000 for their village hall by exhibiting it.

But the creation is now to be split up and sold off because it has become too large to be transported.

Since 1986, thousands of hours of handiwork have gone into the village.

(ht: boing boing)

re-done tees

i'm always looking for new tee ideas. i love the crocheted yoke

refashoned crochet embellished tank
By Dolin O'Shea (pic by her as well. at least it's from the tutorial so i'm guessing she took it)

and here is here etsy shop lulubliss

all i need is a 3d printer

to make this cellular division bracelet #7

by geometry

(pic from the link above)
but that's not going to happen in this lifetime

but i can dream

very nice indeed

Ancient Pixels: Rug Prototype 01 from Jose Olivares on Vimeo.

(ht: offworld)

a pin i made

using grungeboard by tim holtz and his crackle paint

i shrunk down some pictures of a grrrly skull and glued them (on the back) over the eyes so the skulls showed through on the front. i did this AFTER the crackle paint. after the crackle paint was dry, i used a bit of distress ink and i glued on some tiny rose buds i picked up somewhere (i think they were actually stickers). i then glued a piece of paper over the back just so the eyes wouldn't get poked out. i coated the whole front (then the back too) in diamond glaze. the last step was gluing on a pin back


i was inspired by margot potter the impatient crafter (i have posted the video below before, but it's so cool, why not post it again???)

my knitting fairy tattoo was done

a few weeks ago. i just didn't post the pictures. well HERE they are! i am very happy with her

artist: pat macdonald at liberty tattoo in berlin (ct that is)

hello

(ht: extreme craft richie rich

anything with amy sedaris

gets MY vote!

amigurumi videos!

from roxycraft's youtube channel

roxycraft patterns that don't suck
(ht: craftzine)

i don't sew

i don't like to sew. however, something got into me of late. i'm EMBROIDERING. yes, i am. i'm not good at it, but i'm better than i thought it'd be. i would imagine with patience and practice i can only get better.



fashion geek

gonna make one

duct tape
no sew
AND
a zipper

what else could a grrrl ax for?
the no sew duct tape zipper pouch from

scoochmaroo (seems like i've been picking a LOT of things from

scoochmaroo of late) pic by her as well

i guess great minds think alike. although she's doing the thinking, i'm doing the admiring

ravings of a semi-sane madwoman: i just saw star trek

ravings of a semi-sane madwoman: i just saw star trek

simplify, simplify, simplify zombify zombify zombify

use one of their photos or zombify yourself or someone else you know

photoface from oddcast

(ht: photojojo)

the most wonderful

cathie filian has a BUNCH of tutorials up on 'make it for mom'. do stop by and choose one if not more! (pic from kathie's site)



make it for mom, altered plates

make it for mom, charmingly fresh

make it for mom, altered photo pendant

neat-o!

from natural home magazine

how to make a chandelier from baby food jars (it looks so nice, doesn't it?)

(ht: craftzine)

picture above by Photography By Susan Wasinger (plus there are wonderful step by step photos by ms wasinger in the tutorial)

i want one!!!

very badly as it turns out. only problem is YOU HAVE TO BUILD IT. although, i guess i'm up to learning a few new tricks!

(ht: boing boing
the peggy 2 light emitting pegboard kit

from evil mad science

.............

Peggy 2 is an updated version of our "Peggy" light-emitting pegboard display. Version 2 adds simple animation capability and Arduino compatibility. Like its predecessor, Peggy 2 provides a quick, easy, powerful and efficient way to drive a lot of LEDs-- up to 625-- in a big matrix covering almost a square foot of area. You can make an LED sign for your window, a geeky valentine for your sweetie, one bad-ass birthday card, freak the holy bejesus out of Boston, or instigate the next generation of low-pixel-count video games. Your call. It's a versatile, high-brightness display. How you configure it and what you do with it is up to you.

The display can run off batteries (3 'D' cells) or an optional ac adapter, and is designed to drive as many LEDs as you care to solder into the holes. The board can accommodate LEDs in any color and in several of the most common sizes, including 3mm, 5 mm (standard T-1 3/4 size), and 10 mm................

without a doubt absolutely

positively going to do this! from instructables user

Author:scoochmaroo

how to make your OWN damn mineral makeup (pic from scoochmaroo as well)




DIY Mineral Makeup - More DIY How To Projects

because i'm a big fan of the cornstarch clay

my mom used to make this for us to play with as kids. (ah, memories)


from sarah at sweet thing(s) (where the picture came from as well)


so here's how to make it!!!



(ht: the crafty crow)

i couldn't love these more

knitted bangle wristwarmers

how cool are they? COOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLL

perfect for me. i swear.

pics from a house called nut

(ht: craftzine)

these ARE WONDERFUL

Accident-Explanatory Slings

from bem legaus via craftzine (pics from bem legaus)

it's

typographic portrait monday

(from loudreams)

pic:
steven_paul_jobs_by_dylanroscover

it's cool art monday

with kate mccgwire

and her pigeon feathers (from moulting birds)

By Jessica Allan

Kate MccGwire graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2004 and has since exhibited all over London, winning a solo show at 2009's Heart of Glass. Her most recent installations are made from thousands of pigeon feathers, flowing water and even a mouldy growth on a wall.

Hello Kate. Why pigeon feathers?

I am currently using pigeon feathers as they come from a bird that is generally reviled - regarded as vermin and referred to as ‘rats with wings’. I started to collect pigeon feathers that moulted from the birds in a shed next to my studio – I realised that they were actually very beautiful.

pic: from the article above in don't panic

(ht: neatorama

this sounds incredible

from 5 orange potatoes (picture from there as well). lots of lovely things and items to make and photographs. take a gander please

i can't wait to make some
dandelion syrup

it will have to wait till next weekend though. all the dandy-lions have been mowed over this week.

(ht: one crafty place)

stop on over to pink tentacle to see

the amazing photos from the 2009 world sand sculpture festival



picture:

日曜島へようこそ

wow, the nyt has discovered

what you and i have known all along

FELT
IS
WICKED
COOL
Humble Fabric Takes Center Stage
By ROBERTA SMITH
Felt is the feel-good fabric of all time. Sturdy, cosseting, beautiful, shape-shifting, dye-friendly, it serves many purposes and offers countless pleasures. Some but certainly not all of its latest uses are outlined in “Fashioning Felt,” an illuminating exhibition of around 70 items — mostly furnishings and garments — at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Felt’s purely artistic possibilities are also being explored in scattered shows at New York galleries.
Though you may never have thought much about felt, there’s a lot more to it than you’d expect. One of the first manmade textiles, it requires almost no special tools, certainly not a loom. It began to be made 8,000 years ago, a millennium before the earliest forms of weaving. Its fairly unadulterated natural ingredients were and remain animal wool, soap and water mashed into a kind of pulp (initially by bare feet), then dried under pressure and made into everything from caps to rugs and capes to yurts............
PICTURE:
A detail of Janice Arnold’s installation, “Palace Yurt.” Felt’s history began 8,000 years ago, before the earliest forms of weaving. Created from animal wool, soap and water and mashed into pulp, felt is then dried and made into everything from caps to rugs and capes to yurts.

Photo: Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times

love 'em!

from sisi at my craft thingies

make your own cd cases!!!

well wouldn't these make wonderful wedding favors if you were making music cds for your guests? you could even print a picture of the couple getting hitched right on the paper you'll be folding. i LOVE the idea. thanks for sharing sisi!

(pic from my craft thingies)

(ht: folding trees)

boing boing has a great posting up

seems like someone is copying sublime stitching and that AIN'T RIGHT! i've posted about this great site before. i'm NOT an embroiderer (or wasn't) BUT coincidentially, YESTERDAY even before i read this boing boing posting i got out my threads, my needles and my hoop. i swear i did. coincidence???????? i think not. i'll be ordering from sublime TODAY. it's the right thing to do!


Mister Jalopy: "$upport Independent Business and Reject the Fakers"


Posted by Mark Frauenfelder,

.................A few years ago, I wrote:

Everything you love, everything meaningful with depth and history, all passionate authentic experiences will be appropriated, mishandled, watered down, cheapened, repackaged, marketed and sold to the people you hate.

Punk rock was profoundly important to me. The power, the rage and the message. It was authenticity incarnate. A clarity and directness with a political message that was overpowering. As big corporations watched, they started to smell money. They circled and studied. And they aped the aesthetics, but we knew it was fake. Now, I hear The Clash or The Stranglers or The Undertones and I am still amazed. The corporate fakers faded away and the real deal survives...............

.................Urban Threads has so brazenly ripped off Sublime Stitching that I can't help but wonder if Jenny Hart is the only artist that has been ripped off. Please, take a moment to look at the Urban Threads catalog of designs and see if you recognize any other chicanery. Let us know, we will pass it along...................

ravings of a semi-sane madwoman: this is a story about knitting

ravings of a semi-sane madwoman: this is a story about knitting

ok ok ok the beltan 2009 issue of

the anticraft is up

i must pre-warn ya though. it features and UNUSUAL theme.......

here's just one the mer(maid)kin
Michael Kerney (photo) from the anticraft site itself

it's kitty wednesday

(ht: boing boing)

oh cool!

one golden apple (pic from there as well) shows us how to
make naturally dyed play dough


i want to squish some NOW

and finally here's a link to a golden apple's etsy shop

(ht: the crafty crow)

oh i love them

knit undies and they look fairly easy as well

the pattern is from the 40s

to see a current knitted example of the tap pants you can view it on tina lc's ravelry page

(ht: whip up)

dark roasted blend brings us

the pasta monster and other strange food
(watermelon image credit: unknown)
(images credit: Edith Zimmerman)

want to turn this





into this?

well paper and stitch (pics from there as well) will show you HOW to

make these mod ribbon spool display cubbies

(ht: crafty crow)

amazing scrabble commercials

Advertiser/Client: MATTEL
Product/Service: SCRABBLE
Agency: OGILVY & MATHER, Paris
Country: FRANCE


(shout out boing boing)

i'm making one!

Motherboard PCB Bracelet - More DIY How To Projects

a motherboard pcb bracelet

Author:ll.13

lovely!

i think i may make a couple of these this weekend. i like them a great deal

wendy from build make craft bake shows us how to make

hammered flower and leaf prints

pic from build make craft bake

and here's wendy's etsy shop wendelicious (cool stuff! check out her embedded chili flake pendant)

(ht: craftzine)

oh, this is THE best!

margaret wertheim is crocheting a coral reef

(with her sister). and no, i'm NOT kidding. man, i'd love to have a beverage with them!
(and the REASON they're doing it is rather cool as well)
from ted (ideas worth spreading)
Talks Margaret Wertheim: The beautiful math that links coral, crochet and hyperbolic geometry

they're crafting with nature

over at craftzine

this is spectacular! and they show you how to

wood inlay jewelry (really it IS stunning)

........

Wooden Jewels for the Novice
Make intricate wood-inlay jewelry with the simplest of skills.
By Diane Gilleland

You don't need any woodworking skills to make this fancy-looking wooden jewelry. The secret is inlay strips, which are sold pre-made as decorative elements for fine woodworking projects. They're beautiful and easy to cut, and have lots of craft applications.

Here, with just a little glue and varnish, we'll make an inlay pendant, earrings, and zipper pull.......

pic from the craftzine site

ok ok ok i am SOOOOOOOOO all over this one

a duct tape NO SEW tote (from

Author:scoochmaroo at

instructables) pic by

Author:scoochmaroo as well

dances with wools

which is a MOST wonderful site by the way. you should be checking it FREQUENTLY (dances with wools)

has found a grand link to how to knit historic sanquhar gloves


(i'm getting a headache just THINKING about knitting those gloves, DANG!)

kinda cool, kinda creepy!

Giant robot spider in Yokohama (pics/ video)

i love surrealism

(image credit: Marcela Bolivar)


for more stop on by dark roasted blend

this is cool!

wolf and pig



(ht: boing boing)

this my dears is right up my alley!

make a yarn remnant necklace with a natural twist from Tina Hilton, contributor at craftstylish


Photo: AJ Hilton

i've made yarn necklaces before. i've used a bunch of different materials as well. however, i've never used what ms hilton has. how absolutely lovely! and i do thank her for sharing. the shawl pin is absolute genius!

makes me smile

lisa hannigan

oh and she stitched (yes, i said stitched) the cover art for her cd and liner notes. again, i am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO smiling

vickie howell (i LOVE that woman!)

shows us how to crochet a wooden bowl

(photo from the project by Tanner Howell)

oh come on now

how cool is this skirt from evil mad scientist laboratories???

it of course is the missile command circle skirt AND you can make one too!

(pic from evil mad scientist)

it's been a while

since we've seen anything TETRIS




(ht: boing boing)

................Brazilian designers Diego Silvério and Helder Filipov created this stacking Tetris furniture..............

walyou

you know, i think i'm going to do this

become a guerrilla knitter that is. how long does it take to knit up a tiny heart or flower? NOT long at all!

watch it!

becky stern

at sternlab

shows us this instructable on how to make a lilypad blinking bike patch

picture from becky stern

if you're in the hood..............

Fashioning Felt: Exhibit at Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum
If you'll be in NYC between now and September 7, 2009 be sure to take a field-trip to the Fashioning Felt exhibit at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Below is the museum's description of the exhibition:

more odd public

statuary from dark roasted blend

you MUST check them ALL out


13. Happy in Chattanooga, Tennessee - via Sean Phipps
14. Skull involved in non-traditional activity, Prague - via Patton

cool babe, cool dress

oh sweet

rebecca danger hooks us up with a

bunny nugget pattern!

the pic is from rebecca's site

(ht: whip up)

and hippity hop on over to rebecca's etsy shop!

i LOVE some of these scarves

(pic from the lion brand website)
lion brand fashion show from the craft and hobby association's winter show

i especially LOVE this corrugated scarf pattern (from lion brand)

coolness personified

Fluid Sculpture from Charlie Bucket on Vimeo.

from casual profanity

(ht: craftzine)

i like!

well if it's colorful, chances are i'm gon love it (i'm not a little white lights kind of grrrl. while they're fine for some, i go the guerrilla decorating style of multi color, multi themed lights)

look at this grand charm bracelet from serendipity! it's to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the very hungry caterpillar by eric carle

picture from serendipity

(and don't forget you can use some of those #6 food containers for shink plastic)

(ht: the crafty crow)

mark your calendars

for art in the rough a weekend art retreat for women

june 26-29th

here's the entire scoop on registration and events (from navel jelly)

this could not be MORE perfect for me

from dollar store crafts (picture from there as well)

how to make an


alien abduction lamp (oh how WONDERFUL!!!). i am in AWE. AWE i tell ya!

zombie stompin' kicks

i sure gotta get me some

from dress code (alas in the uk)

but look at 'em! (ht: boing boing)