If you've been wishing and hoping (and thinking and praying) for a way to create a dress that's even a little bit like some of the amazing fashions out of The Hunger Games, your dreams have just come true. Natalie Walsh has posted both this video and instructions on how to make your own fantastic luminescent dress… » 6/01/14 6:02pm 6/01/14 6:02pm

A new survey shows that more women are becoming "do-it-yourselfers," spending money and time fixing things around the house themselves—GASP—without the aid of a man. » 4/21/14 10:30pm 4/21/14 10:30pm

There’s a new DIY and it’s all about mixing home decor with clothing design. Who needs a Forever 21 faux fur vest when you can just fashion one from your roommate's IKEA rug. Yes, I’m serious and yes, that is a thing. » 2/18/14 9:00pm 2/18/14 9:00pm

It would appear that a full third of women in the U.S. are really, really into mason-jar D.I.Y. projects and inspirational quotes overlaid onto stock photos. Because according to the latest numbers, 33 percent of American women who bother using the Internet at all are now on Pinterest. » 1/02/14 12:20pm 1/02/14 12:20pm

Anybody else here love Angry Asian Man as much as I do? Then behold Phil Yu, the man behind the bloggy magic, expertly rapping the Left Eye part of TLC's "Waterfalls" in this amazing 10-person cover. » 12/11/13 4:35pm 12/11/13 4:35pm

Sick and tired of essentially living inside a giant cloud of pepper spray, residents of Irwindale, CA petitioned to have the Huy Fong Foods factory (makers of Sriracha) shut down until they can regulate their fumes. Yesterday, city officials filed suit. A judge will decide on Thursday whether or not to grant the order. » 10/30/13 1:30pm 10/30/13 1:30pm

Cronuts, the hybrid CROissant-doNUT that's captivated the internet's lust for novelty sweets, can only be found in one bakery in Manhattan — until now. » 6/03/13 8:30pm 6/03/13 8:30pm

Much has been written about the so-called "new domesticity," the surge in interest in things like canning, pickling, cooking, bread-baking, sewing, knitting, and gardening, which — at least if one were to judge by the pages of Etsy.com, the "crafts" category on Pinterest, or the stalls of your local hipster market —… » 5/08/13 1:20pm 5/08/13 1:20pm

Roopa Vasudevan, a graduate student in New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program, used cross-stitch to represent women's voting patterns in this year's presidential election. Her work, currently on display in New York, is a series of embroidered panels, one for each of 11 chosen states. In each… » 12/17/12 3:25pm 12/17/12 3:25pm

Is Martha Stewart, Our Lady of Cranberry Relish and Thinly Veiled Apoplexy, the latest mascot of 21st-century hipsterdom? I have no idea, but the internet certainly has feelings on the subject! According to some breathless trend-gathering in the New York Times, young "hipster" people with novelty pants and artisanal… » 11/27/12 12:50pm 11/27/12 12:50pm

Got some crafty people on your holiday gift list? Fear not — a present like one of these is bound to please even the pickiest of Do It Yourselfers. (And — self-interested bonus! — it virtually guarantees years of awesome knitted/crocheted/sewn or otherwise home-built gifts for you in turn.) » 11/22/12 4:15pm 11/22/12 4:15pm

I don't give a shit what anyone says, Thanksgiving is about mashed potatoes. And maybe pumpkin pie, if you're stretching it. But turkey? It takes time, it's easy to screw up, it can be stringy and bone dry, and even the best bird just tastes like...turkey. Which is not always a good thing. Or, you know, you just don't… » 11/21/12 11:15am 11/21/12 11:15am

Want to make the Eagle Award — the top honor an Eagle Scout can earn — more friendly to all? Or just have a dope fashion accessory to rock at the club? Was that second sentence embarrassing? I'm pretty sure it was but I'm keeping it in because I would totally have done that in the mid-90s. » 11/19/12 11:00pm 11/19/12 11:00pm

A few weeks ago, my friend Lux Alptraum (who runs the fantastically NSFW porn blog Fleshbot) asked me if I could teach her how to do cross-stitch embroidery. Sure, I said. Needlepoint was actually one of the first crafts I learned, and I still find it extraordinarily comforting. And cross-stitch is one of the easiest… » 11/02/12 6:30pm 11/02/12 6:30pm