Here's a video tutorial for the seed stitch used in hand embroidery. This is a very simple filling technique! Seed stitch looks great when it's worked either in a uniform pattern (as it is in the video) or when it's worked randomly. Watch this video from Needle 'n Thread to see how it's done.
You can use your double bass drum pedals for more than just unique drum beats. This free video lesson covers five simple double bass drum fills that incorporate the hands and the feet. They build upon what you've learned in the double bass drum warm-ups section. Watch the lesson for demonstrations of all five patterns.
In this wordless video, a pair of hands demonstrates how to replace the RAM of the Asus EEE Pc. WARNING! this probably violates the warranty.
Learn 3 sleight of hand coin tricks to make a coin disappear.
In our opinion, human body parts are some of the hardest things an artist can draw. When it comes to parts like hands and ears, we generally settle for a basic, rudimentary rendering because achieving a realistic portrayal seems so hard. If you're looking for quality, though, then Maya modeling software is an excellent way to achieve it.
Get Creative! Learn how to add creative colorful touches to your grayscale images in Photoshop.
This is a great knot to use if you need to release the knot quickly using one hand. This is great for magical tricks or for tying things that you would like released quickly, without the mess of a tight and tangled knot.
This is a trick you can use anywhere. You might need some practice to perfect it, but with a proper presentation, it can add a little fun in a rubber band magic routine.
Join Colin as he shows you how to lift an ice cube without touching it with your hands! Cool huh? All you need is water, salt, ice, and a match of course.
Check out this series of metalworking videos showing blacksmithing techniques to create a hand crafted fiber optic lighted chandelier. This video shows the forging and hot bending of the arms for the chandelier.
The rules of arm wrestling are simeple. Can take your elbow off the table or your hand off the peg. First one down loses.
Check out this cool stop motion video on how to make an origami rose. It goes fast, but no hands block your view! Also you can see the page below for more detailed instructions.
Kyle Hand demonstrates tying a Ray Bergman style Wet Fly.
Although the slice is clearly a message from the golf gods to take a lesson, in the meantime our guy Stuart Smith suggest that the cure for our horrific slice could be a stronger left hand grip and a rounder swing.
Your man will be putty in your hands after this session of Love U! Learn how to train your man.
Learn some basic information about card magic and how to do the basic standard one-handed Charlier cut and a couple basic variations for the cut.
How to do a popular card flourish where the cards shoot from one hand to the other.
The best is that you can shut an egg between two shot glasses without touching the two shot glasses with your hands. Learn how to pull this bar trick off.
Do your roommates constantly steal your toothpaste? Give them a surprise - by filling the tube halfway with toothpaste (you can add food coloring to make the evidence more clear), some baking soda and vinegar in a small ziplock bag, when they try to use it the next time, the contents will be blown out onto their hands! Use this as inspiration for one of your April Fools Day pranks!
This video shows you how to install a Draw-Tite trailer hitch on a Toyota Tacoma. You'll have to stick it in between the frame and suspension components so it's good to have an extra set of hands to do this with.
This is a first hand step by step on how to tattoo ink art on your skin like a pro.
Learn how to perform a magic pen trick in which you appear to make a pen levitate about your hand.
English bread - no sugar here and perfect for vegans! This simple, hand-made bread is perfect for beans on toast, or with some nice yeast extract and a good cup of tea. It's so English, you'll be whistling Monty Python and driving small, fuel efficient cars before you finish the loaf.
After a series of quarte disengage attacks, Bijan takes several counter-ripostes before finishing with a fleche. (For those striving for perfection--He's too close when I'm coming forward/hand is too far back in his sixte parry & he's not fully stretched in the fleche--Aside from these things, I think Bijan has admirable form but I'm his coach & biased...)
California bar-owner Trader Vic handed this concoction to a Tahitian friend in 1944 who took one sip and proclaimed, "Mai tai, roa ae," or, in English, "Out of this world, the best!"
Coiling a rope in such a way that you can use it for a backpack. The butterfly is a real quick simple method of coiling up your rope so that you can transport it and keep your hands free.
Learn how to utilize this resisted arms drill using hand-weights in order to build up resistance and achieve maximum muscle recruitment.
Mike shows you how to do a hand rail with no pegs on a BMX bike.
Learn the first three steps to begin playing the piano. Wash your hands, sit straight, and use proper positioning.
Learn two basic rolls and apply them to the song Red River Valley. Instructor talks about right and left hand positions. Taught by Dennis Bailey.
Dave shows you how to grow amaryllis and paperwhites indoors, so you can have beautiful gifts to bring with you to all your holiday gatherings. This is a great winter project to keep your gardening hands busy until spring.
Have a look at something that will allow you to do more with your photos than you are doing today. Rob McDonald will take a photo and make it look hand painted.
Great self working Mind Magic Trick. Which hand is holding the coin? Guess right every time!!
In this video Meenik shows you how to do spiral wraps with poi. He shows you how to hold your hands and position your thumbs and gives multiple angles so you can really see what goes on.
A tutorial for a beginner's magic trick - the Erdnase color change - in which you appear to change the color of a card with a simple hand gesture.
Dave J. Castle teaches you how to do the slip force card trick. Using this trick you can force a card at the top of the deck into someone's hand. No matter where they pick from the deck you will always know their card.
For preschoolers a creative activity to make bowling pin and then go bowling! Great use of many small motor skills making the pins, and then large motor skills, counting skills, and hand and eye coordination when bowling.
Incorporate hand drawing with markers, ink and tools into fabric projects for stand alone illustrations or to color in embroidered designs.
Martyn Coleman teaches his variation of the waving aces trick, also called the two aces card routine, a card trick in which you appear to make any card picked from the deck reappear between two aces held in your hand.
The finger gym exercise (also known as the slurs exercise) is an exercise for technical development on the guitar. It works every possible finger combination and if you do this exercise regularly you will notice that your hand strength will increase at an amazing rate, making everything easier to play
