Splityarn has posted an excellent photo tutorial of how to make a pencil case for your binder. In argyle no less! And vinyl! And sparkles! What more could you want?
Australian artist Liana Kabel is using up leftovers. And I don't mean putting them in tupperware. I mean using up the leftover tupperware itself.
Liana has crafted a line of beautiful, playful jewelry using old plastics - including tupperware and knitting needles. Pictured here are a necklace made of beads formed from melted down tupperware and (more obvious) some bracelets made by bending vintage knitting needles. Love it!
You can keep track of Liana's latest creations through her site her blog and her flickr photos.
Thanks to Thimble.ca, here's a nice roundup of screenprinting tutorials. Inspiration to get my gear out of the closet...
Read more...
For the next two weeks, Maria of port2port press will be writing a guest blog on designsponge. Very cool - she's highlighting places to buy afforable art - places such as Thumbtack Press, where there are all kind of really lovely prints for under $50. Nice.
Follow the guest blog here (Maria's entries start on September 18th).
If you're feeling envious of those crocheted converse booties, now you can make your own adult-sized pair. Check out this design by BlueAndRedCow on Craftster - along with a pattern to make your own. Just in time for winter!
(Thanks for the link, Sonny!)
iBride (pronounced like "hybrid" in French) is really taking table legs seriously. They make tables with animal legs - ostrich counters, sheep tables, dog stools, and more. Funny.
(Link via mocoloco.)
Today's entry is co-sponsored by the craft of ceramics and the concepts "big" and "small".
First off, the hilarious ceramic hair by Robert Stadler. It looks like it should go on Lego people. There's also a giant version for giant Lego people.
Also, the big bowl made out of little bowls by o-d-a, Thailand's Object Design Alliance. It's hugely cute.
(Both links via mocoloco.)
Little People is a photo blog that documents "little hand-painted people, left in London to fend for themselves". Like Minimiam, which we posted about earlier, it's captivating. (Link via Boing Boing.)
Chilean crafter chicle de sandia makes some adorable felt pins. Mexican wrestling masks, bunnies cassettes, video tapes, skulls, underwear, toilet paper... it's all right here in a felty, lapel-loving format.
Visit her flickr set and her blog for todos los prendedores (all the pins).
It's true. Magpie and Cake is now immortalized in art.
Look at the fantastic painting that my fantastic brother painted for me for my birthday! Thanks, T and N!
It's based on a painting called "Magpie Eating Cake" by Rubens Peale (1865). Those 19th century American painters sure are a funny bunch.
So things are going pretty well on my journey towards having my first craft fair table. I may have a little spent too much time planning, as I now have to kick it into high gear if I'm going to have enough quantity to fill a table.
My progress so far:
These are some of the nicest, most precisely-made pieces of sushi I've ever seen. Great needlework and good choice of materials, especially the beads.
This show is the result of releasing a constructed virus into Oakland.
The action of this virus is simple ... It infects only Oakland artists and causes them to infect other Oakland artists.
The virus is initially within 6 people, each of these people will infect 6 more people, this process will happen 4 times resulting in 1554 artists being infected.
I need your help.
I want to sew some teacozies to sell at my craft table, but every teapot I come across is a different size. Is there a "standard" teapot size?
The teacozies I want to make are much like this one - in design/rough idea only, not in style. That tutorial suggests you measure your teapot at it's thickest point around and over the top.
So, my question to you: what's the circumference of your teapot? And what's the "over" height? (See photos for Steps 1 and 2 here.) Please post your measurements in the comments below. Perhaps together we can find the ideal (or at least standard) teapot/teacozy size! Thanks!
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