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Out of the closet and framed

I’ve found another way to combat my blank walls, and—bonus—it also involves displaying textile gems from the past…

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Amanda : DIY Projects, Reinventing X, Stuff We Love
June 11th, 2008

MacGyver Challenge: Clothes Hangers

{Deadline: July 21, 2008}
by Anthony Discenza

Hangers, no matter how dutifully we purge them, tend to multiply. Drawn to the dark corners of our closets…

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Jen : DIY Projects, Reinventing X, Events
June 9th, 2008

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

If these walls could sing: David Byrne plays a building

Only a mad genius like David Byrne can play architecture like a fiddle. As covered last week in the New York Times, Byrne, with the support of public art organization Creative Time, has transformed…

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Amanda : Reinventing X, Events
June 2nd, 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