A Selfish Seamstress haiku: The Selfish Seamstress

Shopping lists as inspiration: Uppercase

Pictures of defaced money: Money Mumbo Jumbo

What comes after the iPad?: Gizmodo

Sewing for a new baby, “You do know they come out naked, don’t you?!”: Colette Patterns

We got two feet of snow in New York last week: The Worley Gig

How grad school is just like kindergarten: PHD Comics

How much is an Olympic gold medal worth?: Luxist

First-hand account of the tsunami from an acquaintance who was moored in the harbor of Robinson Crusoe Island off the coast of Chile: Smiling Footprints

Handmade shoes: The New York Times

Don’t underestimate 10 year-olds: No Reservations/You Tube

Fire-breathing snowman: Neatorama

How to store and organize cats: I Have Seen the Whole of the Internet

Cappuccino foam art: Design Inspiration

The cars of my youth, on the streets of Brooklyn today: AFC

Are you happy?: Dude Craft

Anti-theft lunch bags: Marginal Revolution

Save pens; use Garamond: Flowing Data

How to report the news on TV: You Tube

How a counterfeit bill fights corruption: The World Bank

Ever seen a Gandhiwarmer?: Hi Low & In Between

White on white: Erasing

Moving a giant sculpture, by helicopter: ArtBabble

Protectors of art, Sentry and Guardians: Andy Freeberg Photography

Bulletproof fashion, “I shoot all my employees”: CNN

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

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

How a fabric collection is created and produced: Moda

Sewing industry best of the decade list: Sew Mama Sew

Mornings just aren’t the same without Carl: NPR

Fabulous elephant tea packaging on one of our favorite inspirational blogs: Lovely Package

Finding beauty in decay: The Ruins of Detroit

Training wheels are now a thing of the past: Gyrobike

Recreating American Gothic: Period Wardrobe

Beautiful vintage embroidery transfers: Collette Patterns

Photos of our favorite new New York park: Yarnstorm

Inspiring pattern picks: Alabama Chanin

Happy New Year, ABBA style: YouTube

This year’s ball drop in Times Square (“Blah, blah, blah. Move it along Coops.”): CNN via Mediaite

New Year’s Eve at Studio 54, 1978: MoMA

No New Year’s resolution yet? No worries thanks to the New Year’s resolution generator: Monina Velarde

Love all these holiday windows: On the Street, New York Times

Recap of a nice Christmas tradition we’ll consider adopting for next year: Inchmark

Animals in utero: io9

Guerrilla handbell strikeforce: Improv Everywhere

Surfboards? Yes, surfboards!: Heather Ross

Thank goodness we can stitch directly from point A to point B–unlike how you must drive in Boston: Cartogrammar

Japanese design principles: Swissmiss