Ben Cuevas knitted a skeleton for his installation Transcending the Material at the Wassaic Project in NY. More pics on CRAFT and Ben’s site — via MAKE
Flickr user Lucy Lou (AKA cartoonist Lucy Knisley) models the awesomesauce squid suit her roommate, Nora Renick-Rinehart, made — via boingboing
This is Rick Ross‘ interpretive concept of JF Sebastian’s chess table and chess set
Shapeways now carries my material of choice for jewellery making: sterling silver.
We are very proud to offer Sterling Silver as our latest production material! In the past we did a test with Silver Ring Poems and Cufflinks, but now you can order any design in brilliant shiny Silver, until at least November 7th.
We’ll use this test period to see if we can achieve the quality and speed that we want. Also, we’ll need to learn what size of objects will be ordered – larger objects mean lower overhead costs for us, and in the long run better prices/cm3 for you!
We’re using Sterling silver which is 92.5% pure silver. The models are created using the lost-wax casting process using a high-resolution 3D Wax print of your design. After printing the model is cleaned and optionally manually polished (we call this Silver Glossy). Please note that only well-reachable surfaces can be polished!
Silver costs $48/cm3, with a minimum of $30. The optional polishing step for Silver Glossy is an additional $15 per model. Delivery time is 12 working days.
— via MAKE
This stunning specimen of homemade costuming just won Marvel’s costume contest at the New York ComicCon over the weekend. It’s a steampunk re-imagining of Iron Man, and boy is it impressive — via DVICE
Photo: Judy Stephens
Sean Michael Ragan of Make: Online says:
Simple, elegant garage casting hack here from Instructables user mikey77, who calls the stuff
Oogoo, which is, I think, a portmanteau ofOobleckandSugru.If you’ve ever bought casting silicone, you know it can be pretty expensive. If, seeking a cost-saving alternative, you’ve ever experimented with making castings using the dirt-cheap silicone caulk they sell at the hardware store, you know that it doesn’t work very well. Large volumes set up very slowly, if at all.
Turns out, though, that mixing in some cornstarch accelerates the drying process; just how much depends on how much starch you add. The author recommends starting with a 1:1 mix. I’m not sure about his explanation that the process works because the hygroscopic starch carries moisture into the internal volume of the silicone, but in any case there are probably other additives that will accelerate the process as well as or better than cornstarch. You might even find one that’s not opaque and allows for translucent castings.
— via MAKE
Wow, fantastic article by Danielle @ Etsy:
Sometimes our buyers need a little push. I’ve experienced this firsthand, so I wanted to put together a guide to selling custom work. I put a call out in the Etsy Forums to gain wisdom from those who have experience selling custom work and the response was fabulous! Read on for some tips from the best in the biz.
She covers payment, communication, and photography and listing tips with plenty of examples to illustrate her helpful advice for making and selling your custom creations online — via CRAFT
So brilliant, it hurts. Lego Letterpress from Justin LaRosa and Samuel Cox — via CRAFT
Brad Litwin creates exquisite miniature hand-cranked kinetic sculptures from cardboard and a few bits of wood, metal, or plastic
. They’re $45/each or $35 as a kit — via boingboing
As we get ready for fall, I love this project for making a felted crochet bucket hat by Whitney of The Purl Bee. Don’t you love all those wonderful warm colored yarn? The orange is my favorite — via CRAFT
Knithacker posted a link to these awesome knit yeti baby booties from kellyhogaboom who used Shana Kreikemeier’s knit monster baby booties pattern (with a few modifications) from Ravelry. Kreikemeier has both a crochet and knit version, and these knit ones from Kelly look really fun — via CRAFT
Australian fibre artist Ruth Marshall knits the intricate patterns found on big wild cats! She’s currently in residence at the Museum of Arts and Design in NYC:
I am delighted to be a part of the Open Studios at the Museum of Arts and Design. I am using this opportunity to launch my Tiger Pelt Project. A knitted textile interpretation of tiger pelts based on the collection at the American Museum of Natural History and actual data of wild tigers being studied in the wild by scientists. Through studying actual pelts that were collected from 1944 onwards to live wild tigers captured by photographs, I hope to trace the history and stories behind these amazing tigers that are facing the threat of extinction today.”
— via CRAFT
Maker Faire NY crew member Nick Normal spotted this window of Singer sewing machines somewhere in Boston. What a cool idea for a display! — via CRAFT
I admit to being one of those people who think that very nearly everything could be improved with a modest pleat or ruffle to spice things up, so I was intrigued by this tutorial for drafting a double back pleat by Lauriana at Petit Main Sauvage. My relationship to her blog is usually much more aspirational as I’m a middling sewer at best and she’s constantly dashing off her own intricate patterns, but this seems pretty straightforward. If you can draft your own pattern, so much the better, but for a learning sewer like myself, she explains how to add it to an existing skirt pattern (or even an existing skirt, I suppose). I think it’s time for an wool autumn skirt with a pleat in a contrasting color… — via CRAFT
Our friends at Lion Brand Yarn Studio point us to this handy online amigurumi pattern generator. You can adjust the size, shape and placement of the parts of the figure and once you are satisfied, a simple click generates the pattern for the amigurumi. It looks like it could be a good place to get started with creating your own amigurumi or work out designs that have you stuck — via CRAFT
Erica Domesek of P.S. I Made This… takes a visit to design*sponge and shows Grace how to make marbled paper which you can use to make a lampshade or necklace. The accompanying video is fun to watch! — via CRAFT
Natural leaf carving is actual manual cutting and removal of a leaf’s surface to produce an art work on a leaf. The process of carving is performed by artists using tools to carefully remove the surface without cutting or removing the veins. The veins add detail into the subject matter of the carving.
The material or most common leaf used in leaf carving is the leaf of a Chinar tree. The Chinar tree is native to India, Pakistan and China. Chinar leaves have a close resemblance to maple leaves — via MAKE
The tentacles of this substantial octopus wrap gracefully around your finger to form the ring. The ring is beautifully detailed both inside and out down to the suction cups carved on the inside of the ring — via Marty Magic
Tentacle pendant is hand made using vintage teal and metallic gold, polymer clay. This piece is sanded, buffed and polished giving it a smooth texture. The pendant is approximately 2″ wide — via Etsy
For my birthday this year the hubby got me a day with a professional cake decorator to create my own cake since I’m all into that and whatnot. So together, Myself and Liz from the Artisan Cake Company in Portland, OR, sculpted this masterpiece!
I’m glad to have learned a LOT about working with fondant and general cake sculpting. I hope to make many more like him. 😀
He loves the little tacos… and taquitos… he loves them gooooooooood — via deviantART
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