This post shows how to create a stand of dubious structural integrity by folding the pages of magazines. This seems like a worthwhile project, although I would probably have to buy magazines second-hand, since my subscriptions look pretty rugged by the time I'm done reading them.

Cat Mazza discusses her activist projects which use craft techniques like knitting to contest the role of branding and sweated labor in contemporary society.

Jean Railla wonders if buying handmade crafts does little to contest the role of consumption. I've thought the same thing; how is buying something made by a white woman in Texas different from buying something made in China?

After winning a scrapbooking award, Kristina Contes has been her harassed by scrappers for the use of a photograph taken by someone else in her winning submission. The article doesn't explore the more interesting issues of authenticity raised by appropria

I skip the New York Times Magazine for a week, and that week is the one when RTF alumnus Rob Walker publishes a feature on crafts and DIY culture.

This tutorial explains how to make a durable textile by fusing several plys of shopping bag.

This cool project reminds me I need to get some business cards made.

Ultra lo-fi screenprinting from computer images.

Instructions on making a wallet from an old audio cassette tape chassis. I think I may make one for business cards.

Note the sample picture on the right. Fifty bucks says the creator is a dude.

Jared Tarbell does it again with an awesome visualization of the incidence of item colors on Etsy, an online storefront service for handmade goods. It's interesting how the colors spike around the primaries.

I have a few shirts I want to mash up like this. I just need to get my hands on a sewing machine.

Here's a Stephen Colbert-themed cross-stitch pattern.