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!)