Archive for category Crafts & Hobby Projects
Mission Control
Posted by Danielle in Crafts & Hobby Projects on June 17, 2010
Credit: Peter Hennessey
Peter Hennessey has quite the portfolio: amazing, life-size recreations of Voyager I, the Hubble Space Telescope, a moon landing and more. All of this, done in laser-cut wood. The above photo of his wooden Mission Control struck me in particular; see the rest here. (Found via Universe Today.)
Paper Universes
Posted by Danielle in Crafts & Hobby Projects on May 26, 2010
One of the things I adore about the Japanese is their near-magical ability to transform, manipulate and just plain BUILD with paper. Take this person, for example, who has concocted mechanical paper models that move, including the astronomical models shown here. A delightful project for children and adults — download the printable PDFs here (zip file, 4.4 Mb. Thanks to Debbye for sending me all the files!) The instructions have lots of diagrams, so you should get by without a reading knowledge of Japanese. (I hope!)
Crafty Star Wars
Posted by Danielle in Crafts & Hobby Projects on April 5, 2010
Credit: Lucy Collins (LucyRavenscar/Angry Angel) / All Rights Reserved
I will always be a Star Wars geek. Yes, I like Star Trek, but it’s not like you can crochet a USS Enterprise amigurumi… well, ok, maybe you can, but, point being, there’s lots of things to craft when it comes to the Star Wars universe, and I am not seeing a bunch of Star Trek crafts online. You see? Star Wars WINS. Ahem. ANYWAY. I flipped when I saw these amigurumi at Geek Dad, especially Chewie here. Chewie, you are adorable and totally worth buying a $3.50 pattern so I can create you myself. (You can buy all ten patterns on Etsy.)
Credit: Lucy Collins (LucyRavenscar/Angry Angel) / All Rights Reserved
Another item in the amazing crafts department is this metro-ticket X-Wing fighter:
Credit: Hubert de Lartigue
It’s a thing of beauty, truly. (I love the X-Wing.) Them being Paris metro tickets makes them that much cooler, I admit.
Last but certainly not least: not really a craft, but LEGO art of the most charming sort. A cross between Star Wars and the utmost in British sensibilities, the cup of TEA. The creator has made the two Keep Calm and Carry On posters available for sale as cards and posters: Imperial version | Rebel version
Credit: Balakov @ Flickr
Space Quilting
Posted by Danielle in Crafts & Hobby Projects on February 22, 2010
“The Pillars of Creation” © Jimmy McBride
This is a quilt by the talented Jimmy McBride. A QUILT. Of the Eagle Pillars Hubble photo. You know, this one?
He has many fantastic quilts in his portfolio, and I owe my finding of Mr. McBride to this article, via @avgjanecrafter. WOW. Space quilts!!
“The Pillars of Creation” © Jimmy McBride
Nice Suit
Posted by Danielle in Art & Architecture, Crafts & Hobby Projects on February 11, 2010
Disclaimer: I know absolutely NOTHING about Black Widow, her deadly origin, or anything about her plotline. In fact, pretty much, I know nothing about comics. I learned recently that Iron Man is a Marvel Comic, after seeing the movie, but that’s about the extent of it. Well, I also know that pretty much all superheros are comics. And Batman. And X-Men are comics. Should I keep digging?
Anyway, I think her spacesuit, as illustrated above, is really really cool. And this piece is just GORGEOUS. Love the subtle colors and all the grays.
Space Block
Posted by Danielle in Crafts & Hobby Projects, Currency & Postage on January 21, 2010
Space Block © Bombus Design on Flickr
A friend showed me this terrific decoupage cube, featuring vintage space stamps (looks to be mostly, if not all, Soviet.) Very nice work, I love the overlapping of the stamps and “sides” (stamps folding over onto another face of the cube.)
One mother of a model rocket
Posted by Danielle in Crafts & Hobby Projects on April 21, 2009
This model rocket is the stuff dreams are made of, and sports engines so large that I didn’t think they’d gone that far down the alphabet yet (rocket motors are alphabetically-graded. Last time I checked into it, the largest was an O. This one is sporting a P, and an experimental Q sent a rocket to 100,000 feet.)
But the article above puts it best:
Placed together side by side in the aft end of the forty-inch wide rocket, the motor tubes that will house all of these rocket engines look small and insignificant. But these nine motors will provide more than 8,000 pounds of thrust—enough power to pick up a Volkswagen Beetle and throw it a half mile through the air.
Weather and equipment cooperating, this big bird will fly on Saturday, and if successful, Steve Eves will have flown the largest model rocket in history. Godspeed, Steve!
Article found via OhGizmo!.
Space Origami
Posted by Danielle in Crafts & Hobby Projects on December 29, 2008
I loved origami as a kid (and occasionally as an adult, when I feel like getting frustrated lol), and found these two via Google:
- Rocket ship (pictured top)
- Paper Star (pictured right)
The second one does involve glue; some folders-of-paper prefer to avoid modifications beyond folding, so I thought I’d give you fair warning.
Here’s some books and kits and things, as well, for your space origami-folding pleasure.
- Planet Origami — Sadly this book is out of print, but I have it, and it’s great fun.
- Fantasy Cosmo Chiyogami Origami Paper — Completely awesome space-themed origami paper. It’s just friggin’ awesome.
- Space World Origami — This turned up in my Amazon search; absolutely no idea about it lol.
Retro Rockets scrap paper pack
Posted by Danielle in Crafts & Hobby Projects on June 13, 2008
An Etsy find for Friday — all I can say is that I’d use every piece of this stuff. Every. Piece.
This is a collection of 50 scraps inspired by science-fiction style space travel. Included in this bag are pieces of colored and patterned paper, tags, tabs, brads, labels, vintage book illustrations, stickers, die cuts, printed scrapbooking bits, chipboard embellishments, tracing paper and anything else that seemed to fit the theme.
Add some “good-old-fashioned” artistic inspiration to you sketchbook, alter an old book, make up some sweet cards, glue your way to a fabulous collage, or outfit a highly original scrapbook!
Space-related cross-stitch
Posted by Danielle in Crafts & Hobby Projects on March 21, 2008
I bought this cross-stitch book in 2000 (and, as with most side hobbies, stopped in the middle of a project.) How often do you run into space-themed needlework? Not that often, I dare say. Fun layouts (if a little inaccurate), metallic thread and lots of detail! I do intend to make a few of these yet; especially since the chart of the planets still includes Pluto!
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