analog girl in a digital world
a blog by selina zawacki
Last tuesday evening, I finally had some energy to get up and craft! I decided to finally make a name stamp for clay, since I’d be going to my first pottery class the following evening and might need to mark my pieces (the teacher ended up scrapping all of our clay for reclaim haha, since…
A combination of a few things inspired me to try block printing fabric for the first time this weekend: This Celeste bath towel by KJP that I picked up at Prelude & Dawn Discovering @meg_____makes and her amazing hand-painted and printed textiles on instagram A neon pink Jacquard textile paint I found at Crush &…
Last summer when I visited Illinois, my dad and I traded lasercutting materials. I gave him heat transfer vinyl in a bunch of colors, and he gave me some silver and gold foil, as well as a sheet of natural rubber. I only recently figured out the perfect idea to make with the rubber –…
I’m almost done making all the granny squares for a cardigan, and realized I would need a way of blocking them soon. I didn’t feel like buying a blocking pad or board so I decided to make my own after work today, using all scrap materials (laser cutting and assembly process photos below) . 🌼…
For christmas I got Mike a bookshelf to go by his desk, and it soon became clear that he needed bookends to go with it. So for his birthday this month I made him some matching ones out of wood. I ordered some plain, sturdy metal bookends with the plan to lasercut a panel to…
Super excited to show off my first ever keyboard case!🎉I’ve been really intimidated by the idea of building a custom case, so I’m glad I found this open source scramble-case by dayofdoom to help me get familiar with the layers and hardware involved. Many thanks to Hugh for recommending the nullbits scramble as a great…
Marlin tends to get very awake at night after sleeping all day long. A few years ago we figured out that if we put a shirt on him at night, he’s less antsy, and since then we’ve built up a small collection of (mostly handmade) Marlin-sized shirts. 😂 I’ve included the file below if anyone…
Before I started my new job this week, I wanted to use the last of my time off to make something just for me. I’d brought back some Chinese knotting cord from my parents’ house in illinois, combined it with some of the newer laser cutting materials I ordered a few months ago, and this…
These hand-painted ornaments were the first time I enjoyed the process of making something for a long while. I especially loved the slight char marks the laser made on each disk. It made them feel properly weathered and used, like a good floppy disk should be haha. I had these plus the slightly more polished…
These bookends are the first “finished” thing I’ve created with our new Glowforge. I started out with the Harry Potter book nook, but quickly realized that it was going to be a super long-term project, considering how detailed it is and how bad. I was craving an easy, quick project that I could look at…