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Rock Band Drum Cozies

Etsy seller FunkieFresh makes these sweet cozies for your Rock Band drums. They're supposedly good for dampening your hard rocking to the benefit of your neibors. To me they have a sort of 8-bit aesthetic because of the resolution of the crocheted stitches. (Thanks, Matt!)

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Rock Band drum dampening tutorial on MAKE

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Vintage-Style iPod Cozy from Bead Simple - CRAFT Pattern Podcast

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Here's the Vintage-Style iPod Cozy I made for Susan Beal's new book, Bead Simple (published by Taunton Press). The inspiration for this cozy was inspired by my grandmother where I wondered if she had a iPod back in 1930s Shanghai, how would she carry it?

This PDF includes the sewing pattern on how to make your cozy as well as the embellishing techniques that are printed in the book. Just note that new iPods are coming out all the time so if you want an exact fit to your iPod, you can measure yours or modfiy/trim down this pattern to fit.

Visit the Bead Simple web site to keep up to date with upcoming events, book news, and project tutorials.

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Bead Simple by Susan Beal - Book Event 4/7 in Portland, OR

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HOW TO - Make a Knitted Calculator

Katie Park of CaffaKnitted shares her free pattern for making this fun oversized knitted calculator, which also doubles as a throw pillow! Knitted Calulcator Pattern

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HOW TO - Make Video Game Cross Stitch Patterns

Sprite Stitch shows you how to make video game cross stitch patterns in this simple tutorial.

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Scientific Embroidery

Craftster member flossbox created some scientific embroidery. She made one for the law of gravity and one for DNA with more on the way.

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