Craft: Volume 01

By TurtleMe

CRAFT is the first project-based magazine dedicated to the renaissance that is occurring within the world of crafts. Celebrating the DIY spirit, CRAFT's goal is to unite, inspire, inform and entertain a growing community of highly imaginative people who are transforming traditional art and crafts with unconventional, unexpected and even renegade techniques, materials and tools; resourceful spirits who undertake amazing crafting projects in their homes and communities.

Volume 01, the premier issue, features 23 projects with a twist Make a programmable LED shirt, turn dud shoes into great knitted boots, felt an iPod cocoon, embroider a skateboard, and much more.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0596529287
• ISBN13: 9780596529284
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Make Community, LLC
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.7" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

A Great Gift Idea

Trying to find a simple but practical gift for someone can prove difficult. Craft magazine has proved to be a blessing as everyone that I have sent it to loved it. Sometimes they pick a project and do it or othertimes they get inspired to go do their own project. Craft is the sister publication to Make magazine which is also published by O'Reilly Press.

My favorite mag!

Love everything about this publication. The non-standard smaller size, the lovely heavy paper, the layout, illustrations, fonts, and the projects. If you surf crafty blogs and craftster, you'll see projects and contributors you recognize.

Hurray for CRAFT!

The first issue of CRAFT is scrumtralescent! I can't wait for more! The ideas are fun and inspiring and make me want to get my craft ON. (Plus, I love the small, take-it-on-the-bus size.) Hurray for this great addition to the world of craftiness!

Yummy CRAFT

I was so excited when I heard this magazine was coming out. As good as a magazine like "Ready Made" is, it skews a little too techie and industrial for me - I was wondering when a high-quality magazine devoted to indie crafting would appear. And I am not disappointed in this result. (Full disclosure - I have since contributed a piece to the CRAFT website.) I love how packed CRAFT is with features and tidbits on the indie crafting world, plus a bunch of cool projects. Other reviewers make the point that some of this stuff is available on the web, but the fact is (for me at least) it can be hard to hone in on the good stuff on the web - there's a lot to wade through out there, some good, some bad, and it's scattered all over the place. I'm thrilled to have a yummy, colorful print mag with an appealing sensibility give me the editorial scoop on what to look for. I can't wait to settle in with it and savor every page. Also, in reference to another review, I happen to be acquainted with Jess Hutchison, and want to say (with no malice) that while you're certainly entitled to your opinion about the absence of the robot pattern (whatever the real story is there), I feel the need to pipe up that she is anything but lame. Jess rocks.

Craft: will blow your mind!

This magazine is amazing. Just by looking at its neat matte cover, you can tell it is not your ordinary publication. This is the kind of thing I don't want to spill food on, or let someone with messy fingers paw through. At the same time I want to take it everywhere with me and show it to all my friends and guests. When someone who is not familiar with O'Reilly checks it out for the first time, their mind gets blown wide open. Some of MY favorite articles in the first issue are the story about how to make your string lights battery powered and the how-to about the knitted boots. The thought of recycling old shoes into something new and so hip looking is great. The scope of people writing for this mag is also a draw, they have an article by Susie Bright, and a hot profile on Jenny Hart. And one more thing, there are barely any ads. It's not like ten pages of ads before you get to the table of contents. It barely has ten pages of ads in the whole thing. So, clearly I am into this thing, and really think everyone should check it out.