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MacGyver Challenge: Bumbershoot Special Edition

Calling all music-loving MacGyvers! In case you missed the deadline for our most recent round of the Challenge, never fear: you’ve now got a special-edition situation on your hands…

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Jen : DIY Projects, Raw Materials, Reinventing X, Events, Sustainable living
July 23rd, 2008

Audience participation: Re-fashioning theater seats

As someone who’s always wanted to renovate and run an old movie theater, I flipped over these Marimekko -clad movie theater seats. After scoring some old theater cast-offs, Sonya of the KnitSonya blog let them languish for a while in closets and hallways before deciding what to do with them. Then she…

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Amanda : DIY Projects, Reinventing X
July 16th, 2008

Project Realway: How to drape a muumuu

Muumuu matters: San Francisco’s Stitch Lounge has posted a great tutorial on how to transform a vintage muumuu into a drape-neck top…

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Amanda : DIY Projects, Tools, Events, Sustainable living
July 15th, 2008

MacGyver Challenge: Hangers [Less than a week left!]

It’s officially crunch time, folks—you’ve got less than one week left to submit your genius project ideas to the hangers edition of our MacGyver Challenge (the contest ends next Monday, July 21, 2008).

Surely you are brimming with ideas. Here’s how to submit…

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Jen : DIY Projects, Reinventing X, Events
July 15th, 2008

Free and hacked embriodery patterns

Through Sublime Stitching, Jenny Hart has resurrected the art of embroidery. Her hip and funky patterns have provided aspiring stitchers like myself with plenty of inspiring designs. But I’m also glad to see that other artists are joining the stitching game…

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Amanda : DIY Projects
July 15th, 2008

I-Do-it-Yourself: Wedding projects

Every Thursday, the Once Wed blog posts a DIY wedding project created by Laurie Cinotto of LaLaLaurie. As July is smack in the middle of the wedding season, crafty brides should take note…

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Amanda : DIY Projects
July 14th, 2008