Nat writes - “We are all nerds at heart so why shouldn’t our socks reflect that? These knit patterns created by Alison Hansel for Magknits shows two cool patterns - Atari Breakout and the Apple logo. A great gift to make this holiday season for the techie in your life, even if that’s yourself!” [via] - Link.
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If you have some old junk parts and extra circuit boards laying around, make a resistor man, he makes a good gift and he resists everything but temptation! - Link.
Skeplin writes -
“I was inspired by this artist’s bottle cap fish to create my own bottle cap dragon. 540 beer bottle caps (170 Amber Bock, 206 Killians, 68 Budweiser Select, 96 Budweiser) make up this 41 x 43 inch piece.” - Link.
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The big news over on our CRAFT site and magazine is that the digital edition went live, this means you can subscribe to CRAFT and start reading the magazine with any web browser right away (it’s a HTML version of the magazine, you get a log in and password - read it from any computer). So get that subscription as a holiday gift and also check out some of the posts Natalie has cooked up….
More @ CRAFT - Link, RSS and subscribe to CRAFT!
Check out this great site devoted to sock machines from the late 1800s (visit the museum pages for tons of machine photos) - “Welcome to Old Tyme Stockings! - celebrating the tradition of sock machine knitting, the restoration of antique sock machines and the promotion of sock machine knitting. Circular sock machines were manufactured in almost every country. Virtually every nation held a patent. Most sock machines were produced between the early 1800s and 1920s. Newer sock machines, such as the Harmony Auto Knitter ceased production in the late 1980s…” [via] - Link.
Leahculver shows you how to protect your laptop screen with this easy-to-make cover. This is a really great use for all those company / conference t-shirts that don’t really fit… - Link.
