First Embroidery: Finished, originally uploaded by kpwerker.
When I was in the seventh grade we had to take home ec. I hated it. Mostly because I hated my teacher. She was everything the stereotype isn't—cold, hard, severe. What she lacked in imagination she made up for in negativity. I remember some of the projects we...
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Sweater Inferno: Knitting FAIL, originally uploaded by kpwerker.
Heather from Croq Zine and Dollar Store Crafts started a group blog where crafty kids can post their failed projects. It's such an obvious and wonderful idea, keeping all the wit and criticism focused on your own ill-conceived or -executed projects. You should sign up and share...
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Repeat after me: Frustration is useless, boredom is toxic, if I'm not having fun I should be doing something else.
The lovely Rachel posted about my double-crochet tutorial on the CRAFT blog today, and I thank her for the link love (welcome, if you're here via CRAFT!). She wrote in her post that I switched...
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It's been over a week since I returned home from a weekend in Portland better known as #craftgasm. It was the most fun I've had in recent memory, and I really can't find words to describe it beyond that. To spend a weekend with crafters of all sorts, all of whom live such amazingly...
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I had two favourite books when I was a young child. One became the seed of my desperate need to see absurdity in every day life (The Cat in the Hat Comes Back, by Dr. Seuss), and the other led me to befriend monsters and explore my imagination without bounds, knowing that...
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