Formula 1 engineering firm BERU is currently working on the The Factor001, a pedal-powered speedster that is being touted as the world’s most advanced bicycle. A marvel of modern engineering, the bike features an ultra-light carbon chassis, high-tech ceramic brakes, and a hard-wired system tha...

(Just a pretty picture of my newest roving from Hello Yarn's fiber club) I'm going ahead with the swap, but I've changed it up a bit. Instead of having to break up 8 of your bumps of fiber I am going to have everyone send me a four ounce (I'm open to 8 ounces also) amount of fiber (d...

Still sewing underwear. Here's a little set I made about 2 weeks ago. It's dark brown stretch lace (sounds scary but it's actually very soft) with some super cool light blue stretch lace trim. I found both of these items here locally at Mill Ends. They actually have quite a bit of this t...

Water, electric, phone, internet access– bah! Who needs em? All I need is tasty handpainted roving. My family disagrees, for some reason they think its more convenient to have food and running water. I’ll never understand them. This a sport weight that I made from spinning Moonlightbaker...

Photo from "Contemporary Batik and Tie-Dye: Methods, Inspiration, Ideas" by Dona Z. Meilach, 1973Drugs have the awesome power to convince people of a whole lot of bullshit, and here's one example. At one time, fiber artists who operated within the......

Large bowel movements + low-flow toilet = problems. So, all the units in my building have low-flow toilets (1.6 gpf). Ordinarily they work pretty well, but since I've made some changes to my diet I've been having monster-sized feces. 10-12", and dense. Pretty much every time I go, the toilet ge...

It's snowing in Boston and my American flight has been cancelled but Virgin America claims their 8:35am flight is going to leave on time.  So here I am in the Virgin gate area.  Wish me luck. At this point there are a ton of people I'm hoping to hook up with at eComm 2009.  The agenda looks reall...

I just don’t like waiting for it to dry when the torment is done. I’ve shocked it in hot water and cold, thwacked, soaked, and snapped the snot out of this yarn so that it’ll be as tough as the hubs of hell. All the torture has felted and blossomed it just a little, forcing the mer...

So our Verizon FiOS home bill has been about $160/month. We were looking to chop that down a bit when I called Verizon this morning. To put it as simply as possible, it’s complicated. What I care about most is keeping the 20/20Mbps down/up Internet service. That’s $69.99/mo. What I don&#...

Today, I am proud to say that I am finally finished adding a backing to my beaded motorcycle! This project wasn't easy either. It took me 3 days to complete! First, I had to find a strong wire that would support my beaded Buell. I ended up getting some 12g coated copper wire at the Home Depot down t...