I don't much like designing craft patterns. My passion for craft manifests more as a desire to curate, to pontificate, to advocate. I usually either follow other people's patterns or just wing it.
I decide a couple of weeks ago to do an experiment, though. The weather was getting colder, and I realized Owen's going...
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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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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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Last November my friend Lisa and I spent a few days volunteering at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in southwest Utah. I'd volunteered at animal shelters before, and I've supported the SPCA for many years, but this place blew my mind. Founded a couple of decades ago by friends – best friends – with a...
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I finally made Owen some clothing. It was killing me not to have made him clothing. So now I won't keel over!
I blogged about the project over at CrochetMe.com, so I'll just nudge you on over there.
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Come on out! It'll be the first work-related event I've participated in since 2010. I may even be able to string coherent sentences together!
This Thursday I'll be the speaker at the monthly meeting of the Vancouver Guild of Fibre Arts – 7:30PM at the Aberthau Community Centre here in Vancouver.
I'll talk a bit about...
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A few months ago I blogged on CrochetMe.com about a scarf I made using the extended half double crochet stitch. A reader asked if I'd explain how to do that, so I did! Not a crocheter? Well, you should be.
(You can subscribe to the videoblog in iTunes just like a podcast. Shiny! Need no-Flash?...
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Okay, okay, the Olympics are over.* To prove to you I did stuff other than walk around town talking to strangers and screaming my head off about sports, behold: I made some stuff, too. And only some most of it is Games-related.
First up, I embroidered. Yes I did. A friend of ours is due...
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Model Citizen Scarf WIP, originally uploaded by kpwerker.
Though it's not going as fast as I'd anticipated, I'm still obsessed with working on the scarf. I suppose I'm about a third of the way done. For now, I derive great satisfaction from accurately capturing the colours in a photo. Yum yum. I've entered it on...
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I bought a skein of Malabrigo laceweight yarn the other day. I couldn't resist it, in all its soft soft brightness. After rejecting every stitch pattern in the Harmony Guides on Friday, I woke up this morning, made coffee, and let the yarn do the talking. I sat all morning with it, and am...
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