Evelin Kasikov's embroidery work has been featured on CRAFT before because her projects were so incredible, and her new work, called The Portrait Project, is no exception.

The Portrait Project is a set of 10 stitched portraits, all based on the same grid. Images are created by using different stitching methods and thread thicknesses. The grid consists of squares, crosses and diagonal lines. Each image is created by using some or all of the layers.

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These sweet little clay pots are perfect for small plants like succulents or herbs. Liz of Say Yes to Hoboken shares her how-to and templates for making a set of your own. I think they'd be delightful all lined up on a sunny window sill. [via @CutOutCollect]

Everything is more adorable when it is miniature. I literally said, "Squee!" out loud when I found this pin on Pinterest today. The basket is adorable, but the real magic is in the tutorial. It's in-depth and well presented. Let the tiny basket weaving begin!

Locked in an epic battle with your fabric stash? Check out this brilliant tutorial for filing your fabric from Karen at Sew Many Ways. Storing fabric in a filing cabinet means avoiding wrinkles, seeing your whole stash at a glance, and protecting cloth from fading and dust. I'm a total organization junky, but this sure blows my multi-box method out of the water!

How do you organize your fabric?

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Polymer clay skull ring

By Mark Frauenfelder at 7:45 pm Thursday, Apr 26

My daughters and I have been playing around with polymer clay lately. It's wonderful stuff. You can mold it like regular oil based clay, but when you bake it in the oven it gets hard. I've been looking around online for inspiration, and I came across this great skull ring that Rossana Meyer made with polymer clay.

This handmade skull ring was crafted out Fimo Soft Polymer Clay. I made this for a boy with a hardcore attitude! I used pastel yellow for the base, carved out all the details and baked for 10 minutes at 230F. When it was cool enough, I was able to push black clay in all the carved details , and added two little balls of red clay for the eyes.

 

Check out Rossana's Etsy store.

Skull Ring

Artist Katie Kretz currently has an exhibition of her unusual embroidery work at Hardcore Art in Miami. The image above is a detail of a work called "The Final Word," and consists of thousands of french knots on black velvet. Check out the photostream of the exhibition, which runs through June 2nd, on flickr.

Reddit user BillyAppletini posted about this amazing CAT-AT (and AT-AT Walker cat house) that he made for a friend. His comment thread has a lot of fun information about the building process, and his image gallery contains pictures of the project in-progress. I - I mean my cat - desperately needs one of these ...

I wouldn't consider myself a great woodworker or an artist - but I will take credit for being committed to a joke. I wrecked my house for a month building this, which was about 27 days longer than I wish it would have taken. The trickiest part was keeping any of my friends from coming inside my place for that whole time - I knew they wouldn't be able to keep it a secret!

The inside of the CAT-AT has a fully furnished luxury cat condo.

I was originally going to forge an Amazon receipt and make it look like my buddy's cat ordered it on his Amazon account and have it delivered while he was at work, but enough was enough - when it was complete, I had to get it out of my loft and clean up.

I love the interior details like "trophy" bird heads mounted on the wall, a lighted bar with tiny liquor bottles, and a wee disco ball. This is amazing.