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Issue 36

The Re-Fashion Issue

Category: DIY Projects

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June/July 2008: The Getaway Issue

So you know: You can read the whole June/July issue of ReadyMade online (and for free). Check it out!

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Jen : DIY Projects, Tools, Reinventing X, Sustainable living, Stuff We Love
June 5th, 2008

Just a spoonful: Spoonflower custom fabric

Feeling stymied by the fabric choices out there? Yeah, me too. So I was stoked to see that fabric is the next medium on its way to being fully customizable…

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Amanda : DIY Projects, Tools, Raw Materials
June 5th, 2008

Beautiful mistakes: Knitted bubbles

Penicillin isn’t the only thing that’s been discovered by accident. In the yarn world, fashion and textile designer Sara of the Crafts of Texture blog recently found out the hard (yet beautiful!) way that if she “mistakenly” washed a button into a wool sweater…

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Amanda : DIY Projects, Design IQ, Reinventing X
June 2nd, 2008

The growing collective

I’m a sucker for collectives. Five years ago, I was pulled into New York City’s flash mobs. Now I’m all over a new call to participate from David Cohen, an artist and social activist from Brooklyn who’s organized a mission called The Seed Project…

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Amanda : DIY Projects, Raw Materials, Reinventing X, Sustainable living
May 30th, 2008

Do it on the floor

Here’s more proof that wallpaper isn’t just for walls (or tabletops): Modern Mechanix has posted a 1948 Popular Science article (shown here) that advocates the use of wallpaper on floors…

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Amanda : DIY Projects, Reinventing X
May 27th, 2008