2012: A Round-up of Making
So, fine, it’s 2013 already. I had to debug a little WordPress to get images to work on the blog, and that took up almost all the time I had to blog over the last while. My excuses thus delivered, here’s a summing up of my last year in making, viewable as a slideshow if you’re so inclined (just click a thumbnail and proceed in the obvious way). Oh, but first, a look ahead. You’ll notice there’s some food in here. I’m cooking and baking more than I used to (which was pretty much never, so I don’t mean to imply I do it all the time), and this coming...
Read MoreMy Trip to New York, in Photos
As promised, the non-Maker Faire part of my trip. Oh, New York, how I love you. I’m so glad my agent Kate sent me here. It’s pretty much a consignment store for handmakers. I bought Owen a wooden train. Artists & Fleas at Chelsea Market On the High Line I took myself to the Museum of Natural History, quite possibly my favourite place in the world. FacebookTwitterPinterestGoogle +1MoreLinke
Read MoreWorld Maker Faire New York, in Photos
So I went to New York for the 2012 World Maker Faire. No big deal. Rather than try to use words to tell the tale, here are some photos. Ok, wait. I’m a words junkie, so here are just a few: Haley Pierson-Cox is my new favourite person, and I went from never having met her in person before to spending, like, a total of twelve hours in her company and never wanting to leave it. I had lunch with my agent, who is even more awesome than I already knew her to be from the internets and the telephone. (It’s a very cool thing to be able to say, to have had lunch with one’s agent, so...
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Read MoreEvolution of the Original Crochet Me Logo (in Hard Copy!)
I’ve been digging through boxes of files in search of one particular document. A hard-copy document. In very tangible, very disorganized boxes. Because I am unabashedly disorganized when it comes to tangible objects, I haven’t found the document yet. But I did find my original Crochet Me logo sketches and mock-ups, and the original hand-drawn logo. I consider that a score almost as exciting as the missing document would have been. I wonder what else I’ll turn up in my search… FacebookTwitterPinterestGoogle +1MoreLinkedInEmailRedditDiggTumblrStumbleUponI’v
Read MoreVirtual Planetoid Hat: A New Pattern!
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 to need a bunch of hats. A few hours later, I’d made him one, and the experiment is that I decided to size it and write up the pattern – would it take me an unreasonable amount of time? Would I recoup the cost of my time? We’ll see. I’ll keep...
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