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Miniature Tree Tutorial
I needed some miniature trees for an art project earlier in the year and found some on Ebay for making model landscapes and train set scenery. They would have worked well but I really wanted specific tree forms so I decided to make my own. Here's my tutorial, it's such a simple and quick project. Step 1: Cut five lengths of wire about 7"-8" long.
How To: Create a Paper Cut Map of Your Favorite City Just Crafty Enough | Apartment Therapy
I have a thing for maps, especially city maps. I love the way that admiring a map instantly reminds you of the myriad of reasons you love the city you live in. It can also quickly take you back to an incredible journey you took long ago, or catapult you forward in a longing reverie of a far-away place yet to be visited. Like most things, I think I'll enjoy this paper cut map even more because I'll have made it myself, so I plan to give this project a try. This bright orange DIY map of Amsterdam from Just Crafty Enough has inspired me and the steps look simple enough: 3) Scan the map (with your markings) onto your computer and flip the image (so that the correct side will be outwardly facing when you mount it.)Around the House
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Thing in a Jar - StumbleUpon
The coolest thing about the Thing is that everyone responds to seeing it by asking questions. Where did I find it? Is it an internal organ? Is it some sort of fetus?
Project 1: Rock + Bowl + Flame ( 31 DIY Projects for Busy Gals)
In pictures: For the readers: 1. Measure out your concrete. I just filled my plastic bowl/mold with dry mix. 2.Oh, Fransson!: Free-Motion Quilting
Fit machine with a new needle (90/14 Universal or 90/14 Machine Quilting). Free-motion quilting puts a lot of stress on your needle, so using a stronger one is often a good idea. I've read about lots of ways that people whose machines don't have stitch length controls or lower-able feed dogs work around this. If you're one of those people and want to discuss how you prep your machine, or if you need tips, check out this thread in the Flickr pool. For this quilt, I used Gutermann cotton thread in a light warm tan to match the natural Essex cotton/linen I used for sashing. Because free-motion quilting takes so much thread, I like to fill a number of extra bobbins before I start.
This colorful jigsaw puzzle quilt is assembled with the traditional "H" quilt block. Puzzle-pieces emerge when adjacent quilt blocks are rotated -- the little squares along the design's midpoint become the tabs that "lock" each piece together. The cutting instructions on page 2 of the pattern are for a quilt with 6-inch square blocks, but you'll find cutting info for 9-inch and 12-inch blocks on page 5. The jigsaw puzzle quilt is most effective as a scrap quilt, but you can double-up and use each fabric more than once. Patches required for individual blocks are small, making the jigsaw design a perfect stash-busting quilt pattern. I think this design looks good with a few black, or "empty," slots.
Quilt Patterns - Jigsaw Puzzle Quilt Pattern - Jigsaw Puzzle Baby Quilt Pattern
Inspired by West Elm's gorgeous Abaca pendant lamps Super talented Heika DeHart strikes again. These pendant lamps she made of hemp string are genius.
Hemp pendant lamps - Crafty Nest
Ryan McElhinney has come up with a very nice idea to reuse some old toys you probably have lying around. The idea is to make a tabletop lamp from them, a lampshade and a cord set. To make the lamp you need to arrange the toys to form a nice looking base and bond them together using hot glue or any other glue you think would work. Don’t forget to put the cord through this base and fix a bulb on the top.
DIY Tabletop Lamp From Old Toys | Shelterness
Ball Jar Lights
I’ve been wanting to do this for a year. It’s one of those things I’ve just been putting off. I love ball canning jars, especially the blue ones. The first thing you have to do to make the lights, is take out the glass seal. Then we started drilling.
It’s always hard to tell which MAKE project will be the one that lots and lots of folks make and then share, it looks like for volume 10 a lot of makers are going tabletop biosphereing.
MAKE | Make Labs’ Biosphere & More!
Create a fun demonstration of the ecological cycles that keep us alive. When my 7th grade vocational aptitude test came back stamped “Forester” instead of “Astronaut,” I knew the testmakers had screwed up. Sure, I liked sitting in streams, and peering down those creepy holes by the roots of old trees. But also knew that someday the whole frickin’ park would be flying through space. Hadn’t anyone else seen Battlestar Galactica?
Tabletop Biosphere — DIY How-to from Make: Projects
"Arikata" is a method of stabilizing checks in thick slabs of wood in aesthetically pleasing way. It can be used for joining boards together for tabletops etc. When working with wider, thicker slabs of wood, it is not uncommon to have checking (cracks) in the surface, particularly at the ends. While there are a couple of ways of dealing with this, such as filling the gaps with wood or putties or epoxy, I prefer to leave it as it is, treating it as a feature instead of a flaw.
Butterfly Spline — DIY How-to from Make: Projects
27 Kites! Fully Illustrated Step-By-Step Instructions If you want to learn how to make a kite or two, you have definitely come to the right spot! Perhaps you have made plenty, but are always on the lookout for more designs and ideas. In any case, some of the most popular single-line designs being flown in the Western world are covered here.