Maker Faire

How to Silkscreen  

Get a quick overview of using photo-emulsion for silkscreening at home or in your workshop. Learn about designing successful prints and preparing screens for exposure and printing.

Making Copper Pendants (Without Soldering)  
Margaret Donnelly
These beautiful copper pendants require no soldering! Learn to create a mini-masterpiece to wear and enjoy. The charm incorporates images, papers, color, and a little glue.

Quick Crafts with Fusible Interfacing  
C&T Publishing
Use fast2fuse® fusible stiff interfacing with fabric or paper to make vases, boxes, bowls, postcards, costumes, decorative clocks, and more creative projects from the from the Fast, Fun & Easy® how-to book series.

Make Your Own Yoda Doll  
Bonnie Burton
A Jedi crafter must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind. Serious fans of all ages come craft cute but simple Yoda dolls!

Make Your Own Gocco Prints  
Francois Paultre
This clever, hard-to-get Japanese printing technology makes it a snap to print your own stationery, cards, and zines in minutes. Try this cult favorite and you too will be loco for Gocco.

How to Refashion Sweaters  
Melanie Miguel
Take scissors to your sweaters! Redesign dormant pullovers into something you’ll love to wear. You can combine sweaters, add collars and cuffs, and use interesting hardware.

Make Your Own Light-Up Purse  
Alison Lewis
Shine on, fashionistas! Fumble for keys in the dark no more. Assemble easy-to-buy parts into a functional, fashionable light-up purse panel that also displays a message.

Make Your Own Knit T-Shirt Rug  
Susan Herrick
Don't say good-bye to your beloved old shirts! Turn them into a washable rug you can knit yourself.

How to Silkscreen  

Get a quick overview of using photo-emulsion for silkscreening at home or in your workshop. Learn about designing successful prints and preparing screens for exposure and printing.

How to Knit in the Round  
Susan Herrick
Demystify circular knitting. Learn to work with one and two circular needles, double-pointed needles, and the Magic Loop! Come learn a cutting-edge trick or a new skill.

How To Sew a Shoulder Tie Tank Top  
Nancy Flynn
Sew a simple, breezy, gathered cotton shoulder-tie tank top for summer in as few as six seams sewn in a yard of fabric.

wardrobe_remix  
Tricia Royal
Share your flare for everyday creative outfits. Post pictures of yourself donning your unique threads. Be inspired by trendsetters, and spur other fashion mavens with your style.

Make Your Own Refashioned Thrift Store Knits  
Shannon Okey
Give wooly thrift store finds new life with a wealth of techniques. Learn to alter and embellish them using knitting, crochet, embroidery, felting, dyeing and more.

Make Your Own Calligraphy & Suminagashi Marbling  
Marcia Friedman
Try your hand at elegant lettering. Expert calligraphers demonstrate using metal pens, quills & reeds. Then, marble paper with bright colors using the Japanese suminagashi technique.

How To Crochet  
Cecily Keim
Crochet can do just about anything knitting can do, with just one needle instead of two. Whatever your whim, there is likely a crochet technique to use to build your idea.

Make Your Own Cat Furniture  
Susan Kralovec
These stylish, aesthetically pleasing scratching posts and play gyms you can make yourself of heavy-duty triple wall corrugated cardboard material please the most finicky felines.

Make Your Own Soft Circuits  
Syuzi Pakhchyan
Create your own wearables and interactive toys using these basic techniques for sewing simple, soft circuits with conductive threads, fabrics, inks, hook-and-loop, and zipper tapes.