Challenges category

  • Iron Crafters in The News

    Congrats to Jeromina of Paper, Plate and Plane who’s heart lamp was featured today on Craft. (You’ll  remember her awesome Army Draft Dodger as well.) She says the lamp was insp...
    Jan 13, 2011 3 Comments

  • Challenge #3 – Just Bunt

    Last week Susi presented us with a very functional challenge so this week I thought we’d go completely for whimsy and ask you all to create a bunting or garland. I don’t know if you’...
    Jan 13, 2011 9 Comments

  • Iron Craft week 2: Draft Dodger

    This week on Iron Craft, the challenge I posted was to make a Draft Dodger. We are in San Francisco, in a house that was built the year of “the quake”(1906). There are a lot of charming de...
    Jan 12, 2011 No Comments

  • Challenge #2 Round-Up Part 1

    Here we are in January, and the second week of the IRON CRAFT. Many of you are hip deep in the snow, and the rest of you are wet. But in record numbers, and with CRAZY creativity, you are crafting w...
    Jan 12, 2011 2 Comments

  • Iron Craft Challenge #2 – Gnome and Mushroom Draft Dodger

    Our second challenge for Iron Craft was very functional, create a draft dodger or snake to keep the cold air (or hot air depending where you live) out. My sweet, little house is 80 years old this year...
    Jan 12, 2011 12 Comments

  • Iron Crafters in the News

    Congrats to Claire of Poopscape who’s wonderful negative lamps she made for Challenge #1 were featured on Craft today.She’s posted a tutorial on how to make them on her blog. If any of you...
    Jan 07, 2011 4 Comments

  • Challenge #1 Round-Up Part 2

    The great projects for Challenge 1, Lighting the Winter Gloom, just continue to roll in… Click any picture to see it larger & read more. If you are not reading this post...
    Jan 07, 2011 No Comments

  • Challenge #2: Stay Warm!

    For our second challenge, we will be making something oh so functional. !! It is time to make a ‘draft dodger’ or a ‘door snake’. (this one is from Simple Organic) If you li...
    Jan 06, 2011 7 Comments

  • Sparkling light

    The first week of Iron Craft brought me to a wall of anticipation. I set the bar so high for myself that I was ready to rewire the whole house. I had to dial it down a notch. And then, in an 11th hou...
    Jan 05, 2011 No Comments

  • Challenge #1 Round-Up Part 1

    We decided to play a little game in the New Year. To stretch ourselves and try new things together. We invited others to join. The submissions are in for the first challenge. We are both blown away...
    Jan 05, 2011 6 Comments