Posts Tagged ‘crafts’
Every household needs a few wooden mushrooms to spruce up a bookshelf, awesomize a nick-knack display, or just to leave laying around someplace. Lots of places sell wood-turned mushrooms. Here are three guys who show how to turn some yourself on a wood lathe. Turning a Mushroom This is a tutorial illustrated with photos from [...]
Tags: crafts, turned mushroom, wooden mushroom
Although there exist some decent instructions on the web for how to make a spore print as an aid to mushroom identification, some people just enjoy making them and consider them sort of an art form in and of itself. Anyone who has ever made one has surely recognized their intrinsic beauty. In fact, every [...]
Tags: art, crafts, mushrooms, spore prints
Thanks again to a reader tip we have some cute (and simple) mushroom ornaments made of felt. These come courtesy of Craft magazine (free!). While I was at it, I snooped around the Craft site, as well as the sister site Make, to see if they had any other fungal stuff, and it turns out [...]
Tags: crafts, crochet, knitting, paper mushrooms
“Turn your garden into a toadstool-filled wonderland.” Well heck yeah! Perusing the magazine shelf at the library I spotted the cover of Martha Stewart Living. Now normally I would not even notice that mag, but something caught my eye. Mushrooms! Look! On page 54 of the October edition of the magazine there is a short [...]
