Seeking your ideas for free or inexpensive crafts for adults that can be completed within 2-3 hours with very little instruction required. Striving for a fun process and a pleasing end product. No worthless, ugly or junky, please.
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posted by AnOrigamiLife
on Oct 24, 2012 -
34 answers
Boyfriend has a solid-colored teal silk necktie he was forced to buy for a wedding. He says he'll never wear it again in it's current state as it is too "prom-y". Anything I can do to either a) make the tie more interesting (ex. a pattern) and thus wearable or b) put it to some other crafty use?
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posted by jorlyfish
on May 20, 2012 -
22 answers
Do you know about building mobiles? Looking for book recommendations, your favorite mobile makers (or mobiles) and any tips and tricks for finding balance with mobiles.
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posted by amanda
on Apr 3, 2012 -
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I'm making some paperboard coasters, but I'd like to seal them so that they won't pick up coffee rings. What sealant would be best?
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posted by you're a kitty!
on Mar 7, 2012 -
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I have a blog that used to have some readership. I think I got people interested mostly by participating in food blog events (where someone hosts on their blog, names a theme, and then everyone makes something, blogs about it, and gets a link in the event post. There are so many of these that there are even blogs that aggregate all the food blog events). Then I had to move my blog and lost most of my visitors. Also I now post a lot more art/craft content than food. I assumed there would be similar things for my new topics, but I just can't find them. Do you know of any recurring art/craft blog events with open participation, or any websites that catalog such things?
posted by lgyre
on Feb 27, 2012 -
4 answers
Where can I find resources on the web or in print for great art-making and unique crafty ideas for adults?
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posted by Miko
on Nov 3, 2011 -
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Last winter, our small-town nonprofit arts organization decided it wanted to do something during our long dark winters to bring people together to be creative in its gallery space. Thus was born free weekly
drop-in adult creative time. Problem is, people don't go. How do we change this?
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posted by AnOrigamiLife
on Oct 11, 2011 -
22 answers
Looking for general advice, tips, personal anecdotes, etc from autodidacts (or anyone else) about learning a complex craft/set of skills
on your own. (details on the particular discipline inside)
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posted by Griffinlb
on Dec 6, 2010 -
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Where are the art and craft galleries in the Los Angeles area? I'm looking for galleries that sell art, jewelry, pottery and so on that's not mass-produced, but not crazy expensive fine art either. I'd love to find something like Portland's
Real Mother Goose. Nice stuff, not too experimental or edgy and perfect for buying gifts for my parents.
posted by kbuxton
on Mar 17, 2010 -
11 answers
Hi all, I have recently become obsessed with origami, and I love the funkier side of the craft. Bright colors, geometric patterns, modular pieces. I have the basic folds down, but now I want to make and learn about really cool stuff. Do any of you have suggestions about the most interesting origami papers, websites, discussion groups, patterns, etc.? Or any other origami advice?
posted by tnygard
on Feb 21, 2009 -
11 answers
Metal art/craft question - I need to scratch a design into a lot of cold rolled 22 gauge steel.
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posted by Sophie1
on Aug 27, 2008 -
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I want to make a promotional mug that has a picture of a brain on it, where some 'brain activations' appear when the mug is heated. I've seen color-changing mugs like this around, but I can't seem to find out where to get them made.
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posted by dmd
on Dec 5, 2007 -
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With the joyous event of the election of a Rudd Labor Government here in Australia, I'm thinking of commemorating the win by taking the front page of a few newspapers and turning them into one of those hard wood posters you can buy from some music stores and poster shops. I am reliably informed that this process is called 'poster boarding' and from the few places I've looked at who do it professionally, this is going to set me back anywhere between $100 to $300
per poster. So I'm wondering if this is something I could do myself. If so, what do I need to buy, what do I need to do (a step by step process would be nice) and, importantly, how easy/hard will this be for a first-timer to do?
posted by Effigy2000
on Nov 25, 2007 -
7 answers
How to recycle old paint canvases? I'd like to do some sort of photo transfer onto them, but how?
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posted by DenOfSizer
on May 26, 2007 -
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I've just bought a cheapy pack of T-shirt transfer paper for inkjets, to print my own designs onto T-shirts. Anything I can do to increase the chances of them surviving the first wash?
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posted by krisjohn
on Jun 12, 2005 -
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