This summer I read Entangled Life which is a lovely book about all the cool things fungi can do. I very much recommend it in general, but the part that’s relevant here is the bit talking about yeasts and fermentation. Turns out that for all the snobbery that’s out there about brewing alcoholic drinks like …
When I bought this gorgeous collar a few months ago, I quickly realized I had nothing to wear it with. I’ve documented my attempt to rectify that issue here. I was not happy with this crease on the waist. So I unpicked it and made the waist ever so slightly less angular on this seam. …
I made it! My EL wire slanted design corset is done, so I owe you a write-up of how it went. To see how I ended up with the pattern, see part 1. Step 4: Assembling the sections I first put together each of the four horizontal sections Step 5: Stitching in the EL wire …
For a while now I’ve had a polystyrene dressfrom that was *roughly* my size. Let’s call her Suzy. She was good enough to prop up a piece of clothing I was working on but not quite good enough to check the fit or anything. I could (and probably at some point will) buy an adjustable …
Since I’ve been spending a lot of time at home I have also been watching a lot of youtube. And I stumbled across some cool bookbinding videos and thought I wanted to try it. I didn’t have any leather for carving and tooling, but that’s okay because I’ve never done leatherworking either and learning one …
When I learned pattern drafting (drawing ‘templates’ for cutting/sewing garments) I quickly realized that it was just an algorithm for drawing a shape. You take the measurements of the person it’s supposed to fit. Then using those and some rules of thumb that are based on common sense and (I suppose) centuries of experience with …
Ever since the Insect Wing corset I’ve been kind of obsessed with modifying a corset pattern to make a design out of different fabric sections. So this is round 2 of me making life harder for myself. Step 1: The Design After sketching a few ideas involving complicated patterns of stripes and weird angular edges …
I know that I normally write stuff about making things, but today I want to talk about breaking (or cracking) things and hopefully inspire you to do the same while you have some time during the holidays. For those of you who are not familiar: CTF stands for Capture The Flag and in this context …
Ever since I found out about wearable Arduinos like the Lilypad and Flora, I knew I had to make _something_. I went around the internet and saw tutorials for all kinds of blinky LED things like tiaras, cyborg style face jewelery, and light-up skirts. So after some brainstorming the idea is to make a motion-sensitive …
Tinkering with various minecraft village concepts. Part one: the idea. Part 2: The Execution So, the end result of the minecraft village tech is ready. The good news is it looks pretty good. The bad news is that release 1.14 is on the horizon, and it will break all this stuff.