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Handmade icon pillows given as gifts for Christmas

by Mike Schramm (Dec 27th, 2010)

We've seen Apple app icon pillows before, but these are pretty excellent -- TUAW reader Dan G's girlfriend hand-sewed them for him for Christmas. That's the brand new iTunes icon on the right there (though I expected it to be a little more blue), and on the left is the Firefox icon. We won't tell ...

TUAW's Holiday Gift Guide: Crafts with the kids

by Erica Sadun (Dec 23rd, 2010)

Welcome to the TUAW Holiday Gift Guide! We've sorted the treasure from the junk and are serving up suggestions to make your holiday gift-giving a little easier. The best holiday helpers are often the ones you already have right at home. Here are some ideas for last minute creations that are fun ...

Falling in love all over again with the Mac Classic iPhone case

by Steven Sande (Jul 7th, 2009)

For those of us who are old enough to remember it, the classic "smiling Mac" was the face that first made us fall in love with a boxy little beige computer. Now Colorado designer vanMourik on Etsy.com has created a felt iPhone case that brings back that first love... Available for only US$25, the ...

Knit Yourself an iPod Sock

by Erica Sadun (Jan 8th, 2007)

Macworld.uk has a sweet little article laying out directions for knitting your own iPod sock. If you have some yarn and needles, you can save yourself £19 and roll your own. The pattern involves nothing more than 30 cast-on stitches in a knit-perl[1]-knit-purl pattern, switching colors after ...

Happy Mac cross stitch

by Erica Sadun (Dec 17th, 2006)

TUAW reader Benjamin White sends in this photo of a cross stitch project he recently crafted. After weighing the merits of OS X and OS 9 art, he decided to go with the OS 9 Happy Mac startup face. The project is about 2-by-3-inches in real life and came out beautifully. White thinks he should have ...

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