A giant knitted rock: Craft Business

From the annals of brilliant ideas in reusable packaging design: Subtraction

Zee Avi, the best (and probably only) Borneo-born ukulele player you’ll see this week: Studio 360/You Tube

Oh, the temptation of the infamous marshmallow test: Vimeo

What was in “Miss Average College Girl’s” closet in 1941: Hand-Made, NYPL

Over the next year, I’ll be contributing a monthly column to the BurdaStyle blog that goes into geek-level detail on fabrics. The column runs on the last Tuesday of each month.

The first piece in the series, a basic primer on fabric construction terminology, published this morning.

In upcoming months, I’ll be covering topics such as the different types of natural and man-made fibers, uncommon fabric types, how to shop for interesting apparel-sewing fabrics, and how a designer puts together a fabric collection.

Enjoy!

A shop to benefit the work of Doctors Without Borders in Haiti: Etsy

Tutorial for a cat house: Sewtakeahike

Shortbread buttons: Forty-Sixth at Grace

The number of Crayola crayons doubles every 28 years: Weather Sealed

Carved baseball bats: Craftzine

The iVictrola: YouTube

Reminder: only two more days left in our winter free shipping sale; coupon codes can be found here

During the month of January, we’re giving you the opportunity to ask Oliver + S a question. Any question.

Since we opened up our Formspring page for questions, we’ve fielded over 30 excellent inquiries on topics ranging from how to make specific types of alterations to what music is playing at the studio on a typical day.

We’ll continue answering your questions here for the next couple weeks, so think of that issue that you have always wondered about and ask away.

Not only an apt description of Cloth and Bobbin, in lovely Narberth, PA, but this phrase potentially describes the School Days raincoat I’m about to make during our workshop tomorrow.

This Amy Butler print is not exactly small, with bright pink and orange in a large, bold repeat. But when finished, the jacket should, indeed, look small and mighty.

If you can quickly cut your fabric in preparation, I think there is still a space left in the class! Contact Johanna for details.

The best passive aggressive fridge notes of last year: Passive Aggressive Notes

The cutest things of last year: Cute Overload

Interesting piece on copyright and ethical dressmaking: The Sewing Academy

We’re totally doing this at our house: Cakies

If we lived in Minneapolis, we would totally do this: Twin Cities Daily Planet

Monkeys teach their babies to floss: BBC

Ah, siblings: Spike

That’s the way I like it: YouTube

Loving this woven cowl: SwissMiss