Crafts

Earlier today, Victoria (AKA @sfgirlbybay) tweeted a link to a great post about why books need bloggers. And over on her blog, Cirilia posted a photo of her crafty books and listed her favourites. We should all do this! Here are my crafts books (most of them). They're not going to live in this book...
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When I sewed the last felt spot onto Owen's hat on Monday, I kinda sorta burst into tears. I'd made my kid's first Halloween costume, dude. I felt like a god. Granted, I had a lot of help. Help #1: The pattern for the hat, by Michele Wilcox for Coats & Clark. (It's intended to be...
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The weather has been so gorgeous here the last couple of weeks, it's all I can do to sit inside and work. It's like a proper northeast autumn – blue skies, crisp air, turning leaves. It's usually grey by now here in the Pacific Northwest, which makes outside even more irresistible. And to top it...
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Fall means knitting and crocheting, people. Seriously. Greg's started going to a class one or two evenings a week, which is like added crafting magic. I put the baby to bed, eat something, then watch all sorts of vaguely uninteresting television and knit. Which means I'm actually making progress. And that's a very good thing, because there's...
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Remember this, people. With a couple of important yet not universally applicable exceptions, you cannot control what others do with your work. The minute it escapes your possession, your work will be interpreted, judged, manipulated and sometimes downright defiled by people you don’t even know. One day I'll tell you the story of how Greg reacted...
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When the baby arrived and we decided to remodel and/or switch around half our house, my workspace pretty much got moved to the bottom of the priority list. For the first few months I wasn't working at all, and then when I started working there were just so many other things to do that...
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I've deleted this post a half dozen times, because I'm not sure there's a good way to say this thing I'm fairly desperate to say. Maybe this will do it. Dear crafts, For the last few months, I've felt like I've been unfaithful to you. I've been thinking of myself as a maker. I know this comes as...
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I'm really psyched to have had the opportunity to write a bit of a guide to making a Mighty Ugly creature for the CRAFT blog. I mean, it's CRAFT! And I got to sit for an afternoon and make and photograph an ugly creature! Fun times. So if you've been listening to me blather about...
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There's so much I want to say about Vancouver's first Maker Faire that I've put off writing this post for nearly three weeks. In the interest of getting over this block, I've decided to write a series of posts about it. To sum up, Maker Faire blew my mind. It was the most fun I've...
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Oh how I wish I could attend the Maker Faire in California next weekend. (Or the one in Detroit in July, or New York in September...) Next year, I hope! But I'm not terribly disappointed, because next month Vancouver will host its first community-organized Mini Maker Faire. Sanctioned by O'Reilly – the folks behind MAKE magazine,...
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