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Activism (32)
- Crafting for a Change: Vogue Knitting Holiday 2017,
- Compulsory Podcast Episode 202: Betsy Greer,
- Crochet a Hat for Science! (Free Pattern, BYO Activism),
- Pussyhats and Photos from the Women's March,
- My Take on a Crocheted Pussyhat,
- Is It an Emergency?,
- Supporting Refugees and Combating Bigotry,
- The Gay Sweater,
- Monday Morning Mind Dump,
- Must Read: Could the Clothes on Your Back Halt Global Warming?,
- A Quiet House. Also, Fuck Cancer.,
- Do-Good Thursday: Morticia Seeks Special Person,
- Do-Good Thursdays: Avery the Cat,
- Do-Good Thursday: Two's a Charm,
- Do Good Thursday: Christie the Cat,
- Do-Good Thursday: Orphan Animal Pics,
- A Tool Butler and a Good Cause,
- Don't call me MOMMY at work.,
- Craft for the Animals Campaign and Free Crochet Pet Mat Pattern,
- A Home-Alone Crafting BONANZA,
- Contest & Fundraiser! Donate & you could win yarn or fibre!,
- Star Trek Made Me Cry (AKA I’m Asking You for Money Again),
- We’re All Freaks.,
- Turning Sadness Upside Down, Big Time,
- Let's Talk About Science, Theism, Feminism and Boobquake,
- Nobody Puts Pancreatic Cancer in the Corner,
- Talk to Me (Us All) About Health Care: Open Thread,
- A New Goal,
- In Which I Ask You for Money,
- Health Care: Friend or Foe?,
- Olbermann: Gay marriage is a question of love,
- Name Your Body Parts,
Blather (395)
- Camp Thundercraft 2018 Was an Amazing Business Retreat,
- {Ended} Enter to Win My New Zigzag Crochet Class!,
- Demystifying Double Crochet for Beginners,
- Behind the Scenes of a Crochet Class at Craftsy,
- Join Me in Year of Making 2018!,
- How to Get Better at Making Something,
- What I'm Making: Round Challah for Rosh Hashanah,
- Register for Stamp Camp and Learn to Carve Your Own Stamps!,
- What I'm Making: Blueberry Muffins,
- New Ink!,
- Cleo the Dog, 2002-2017,
- Pegboard DIY (and a Class in Production!),
- All the ❤️ for No-Knead 🍞,
- Spring Spirals,
- I Will Not Read If:,
- Sunny Day,
- Sophie’s Universe Crochet Blanket, Part 3,
- Sophie’s Universe, Part I,
- Catching UP,
- Small Format Bullet Journal: Trial & Error,
- Participatory Performance Art?,
- Working All Over the House,
- Summer Holiday in Panorama,
- Guerrilla Crocheting in Stockholm,
- Secret Pleasure Art Print by boyounkim,
- On the Myth of Being Busy,
- A Photographic Break,
- Daily Art Journal: COLLAGE!,
- The Ripple Blanket Grows,
- Time for a New Ripple Blanket,
- Vancouver in Spring,
- Subscribe to My Facebook Live Broadcasts!,
- A Shawl from Yarn Scraps,
- Introducing the Maker Concierge!,
- Best Nine of 2015: Pretty Much Sums Up My Year,
- Joy and Neighbourliness and Books All Over the World,
- Get Creative in 2016! Announcing the Daily Making Jumpstart,
- Introducing the Resa Shawlette,
- How to Write a Crochet Pattern: Kate Atherley on the Value of Professional Editing,
- How to Write a Crochet Pattern, Part 4: The Images,
- How to Write a Crochet Pattern, Part 3: The Language,
- How to Write a Crochet Pattern: Kate Atherley on Setting Expectations,
- How to Write a Crochet Pattern, Part 2: The Numbers,
- A Finished Shawl,
- Google Photos is Out of Control,
- Stormtrooper Amigurumi,
- Flickr to Google Photos Transfer,
- How to Assemble a Cricket Rigid-Heddle Loom,
- Tried and True (AKA My Favourite Crochet Pattern),
- Best Roasted Pumpkin Seeds Ever,
- Great-Gramma Dorothy's Banana Cake Recipe,
- Chewbacca Costume for Halloween: The Search,
- Heavy Contemplation: Ditch my iPhone for Android?,
- Exploding Kittens: So Much Fun It Almost Killed My Mother,
- Down with Lazy Requests for Blogging: An Email Encounter,
- 39!,
- Our Western USA Road-trip Itinerary (with a Map, and Everything),
- Home Is Surreal,
- Werkers on the Road: Dispatch the Third,
- Werkers on the Road: Dispatch the Second,
- My New Craftsy Class is Live! Learn More Crochet with Me!,
- Werkers on the Road: Dispatch the First,
- Finishing Touches (a Bit of Productive Procrastination),
- We Werkers Are Hitting the Road,
- All in a Jumble,
- #yearofmaking #2: Week 2,
- Bullet Journal Update, One Year In,
- Hello, 2015 (with Pipers),
- Just call me Rita. (Maybe just Piper.),
- On Where Bloggers Might Fit Among Established Craft Businesses,
- Focus, man. Watch this.,
- Favourite Radio: CBC's Q,
- DIY Calamine Lotion,
- Kate Bingaman-Burt on Rule-based Making,
- More Motivating: Game or Fiction?,
- Around the World Blog Hop,
- Taking Back My Email,
- New Interview on While She Naps Podcast,
- How Daycare Changed Everything,
- Taking the "DIY" Out of Business,
- When it comes to creative business, let's leave the woo-woo out of it.,
- The End of a Long Quest,
- Be Explicit Printable,
- Some Fitness Shenanigans,
- Bullet Journal Update,
- On the Death of an Artist,
- How To Be Creative,
- Who are you talking to?,
- So. Much.,
- Made of Happy: The Color Run!,
- September App Round-up,
- A Camping Interlude,
- "Stay on the fucking bus.",
- Happy Birthday to Me!,
- Tara Swiger on Trusting Yourself (and a Free Ebook),
- Tumblr, Revisited,
- Vancouver Mini Maker Faire 2013,
- I was inclined to make excuses...,
- "Commit to your crazy." Wise Words from Kate Bingaman-Burt,
- Why You Shouldn't Truncate Your RSS Feed,
- Hot Art Wet City,
- Where the Trees' Eyes Came From,
- When the Circle of Life Kicks You in the Nuts, then Hands You a Margarita,
- A Note About Feed Readers and RSS,
- So this really bugged the crap out of me yesterday.,
- Link Love: Thrifted blankets, Comment Trolls and Twin Peaks,
- The Trees Had Eyes,
- My new thinking cap is a writing ring.,
- Meet the Shuttle: Our Continuing Camper Shenanigans,
- Link Love: Superheroes, Art and Disposable Fashion,
- Why Felicia Lo Should Be a YWCA Woman of Distinction,
- Operation Pave Urban Garden, Put in a Trailer Park,
- Money. Money. Money. Part 1: Guilt at Home,
- A Visit with My Editor,
- Pastrami-along: Greg's Brine Recipe,
- 100 Stream-of-consciousness Things About Me,
- Kids, I'm making pastrami.,
- When I Silence the Bully in My Brain,
- Special Playtime,
- Mandy Patinkin on Fear,
- Amanda Palmer on Asking (and on Seeing Each Other),
- On Asking (and Selling),
- Via the Pulp-O-Mizer: Write the letter.,
- The Holocene didn't win. But that's okay!,
- Twin Peaks and Me (As an Adolescent),
- On the Value of Being Unprofessional,
- Eyeballs as Portals to the Soul, not Sellable Objects,
- We're making a new digital magazine. (Help!),
- I made a hat!,
- Failed But Not Dead Yet: A Taco Hat TV Update,
- Perhaps My New Professional Bio,
- One Week Left to Determine the Fate of Taco Hat TV ,
- Craft Social: Setting the Stage for Productivity, a Follow-up,
- My Trip to New York, in Photos,
- World Maker Faire New York, in Photos,
- Help make Taco Hat TV!,
- A Little Bit More About the New Website,
- Spanking New Website!,
- I'm a Little Obsessed with This Song Right Now,
- Esperanza Spalding: "Failure is everything.",
- Rut Race, Day 7: Put My Game Face On,
- Rut Race, Day 5: Get Out and Converse!,
- Rut Race, Day 3: Spectacles,
- Evolution of the Original Crochet Me Logo (in Hard Copy!),
- RIP, Mme Baxter,
- Introducing the Celia Circle Scarf,
- Farewell, Crochet Me,
- What I Flattred in November,
- The Great Wall of Facebook,
- It's Pay-a-Blogger Day!,
- From Mumbles to Declarations,
- Never to Outdo,
- An Evolution of Perspective: Indie Vs. Corporate,
- After the Riots,
- Kimagination Station Internet Funtimes: Subscribe Today!,
- Pride and Prejudice and Social Media and Big Business,
- Videoblog 5 – Flattr: We Should ALL Use It!,
- Videoblog 4 – Back to Work,
- Hank Vest, Finished!,
- Happy New Baby Year,
- I fell in love with this guy.,
- Five Years, in Photos,
- Spreading Around the Awesome of Vancouver,
- Videoblog #3: How to Make Extended Crochet Stitches,
- Get Social Media and Blogging Coverage of Your Work,
- Meet Cleo. Properly.,
- On Press Releases,
- Missing Starbucks: A Vancouver West Side Story,
- Facebook Shakedown,
- Rip the Bandaid Off!,
- Dispatches and Catch-Ups,
- From Make & Meaning: All Work and No Play...,
- From Make & Meaning: Eating Cookies (Where Cookies Are Opportunities and You Don't Eat Them),
- From Make & Meaning: Chemistry,
- From Make & Meaning: We Were Here,
- From Make & Meaning: Fostering Community,
- From Make & Meaning: Creativity in Business – Let’s Expect It!,
- From Make & Meaning: So Tell Me What You Really Think,
- Unemployable (Not Really),
- Copyright, Creative Commons and Crafts,
- Flattr: One Step Closer to Sustainable Blogging,
- Lack of decoupage doomed Dollhouse – Sci-Fi Wire,
- Northern Voice 2010: The Great, the Meh and the Ugly,
- Sister Diane Started a Video Blog,
- Nearly Approved: Adoption Update,
- I'm Going to Rave About Twin Peaks Now,
- Confirmation of Uncommonness,
- Dale Cooper + Harry Truman: Discuss,
- This is my home.,
- A Weekend in Whistler During the Olympics,
- An Afternoon in Downtown Vancouver During the Olympics,
- When the Torch Came to Town,
- Raindrop Yarn Bombing in Vancouver,
- That Woo-Woo Money Thing,
- Welcome to Vancouver, World,
- Ooh ooh, Hire Me!,
- Adoption: Open Thread,
- Weekend Brainfood of the Gender Imbalance Sort,
- Small Biz Social Media Series: Twitterfeed Tutorial,
- Remembering When I Felt Differently,
- Small Biz Social Media Thinking: Interview with Tara Swiger,
- Warming My Poor, Cold Head,
- Interview: Coffee with a Canine,
- Kicking the Collective Ass of an Industry,
- Eight years...,
- On Being a Feminist Around Business People,
- Reconnecting,
- Twitter Fail (or How NOT to Lead an Industry Online),
- Hey there, crafters!,
- Advice For the Weekend,
- New Vancouver Transit Line Makes Me Happy,
- Why I Love Vancouver: Reasons 9-11,
- The Look of Things,
- Sometimes A Font Will Do,
- 79% of Statistics Quoted Harm Puppies,
- It's My 20th Bat Mitzvahversary,
- Whispers of Home Ec,
- Making Mischief of One Kind and Another,
- Love the Ugly Scarf,
- Northern Voice: Missing Big Conversation, Loving Small Example,
- Facebook: The Beginning of the End,
- CRAFT Nixes Print, Goes Digital: The Scoop,
- Worth,
- Seven Is an Odd Number. Literally.,
- Twitter at Its Finest: Television Recommendations,
- What's a Viral Marketing Win?,
- 2008 Yearly Round-Up, Looking Ahead,
- Cleo = Found [formerly Help! Lost Dog],
- Welcome, Yarn Market News Readers!,
- First Up: Podcasting,
- I'm Not "Dead" Yet (Weeklyish Roundup),
- 13th November Weekly Roundup (Status Update Edition),
- Giving Away Free Content As Publishing Industry Shakes Down,
- What did the little mushroom say to the big mushroom?,
- Yes We Can!,
- Fired Up! Ready to Go!,
- Vote, Or We'll Be in a Big Fight,
- Happy Halloween 2008!,
- Ch-ch-ch-challenges,
- 27th October Weekly Roundup,
- Plotline as Step Function: Review of Divisadero,
- Colin Powell Goes Beyond Just Endorsing Obama,
- Making Happy Happen: An Update & Zappos,
- Talk to Me (Us All) About: The S Word,
- Nobody Is Pro-Abortion,
- 12th October Weekly Roundup,
- Sheep in Wolf's Clothing,
- A Recipe for Seething Resentment,
- My Ovaries Made Me Do It,
- Humans: Making Happy Happen,
- Book Club Run Down,
- Why Editors Should Rule the World,
- Archie Bunker: Shockingly Timely,
- CRASH! An Open Thread,
- 1st October Weekly Roundup,
- What He Said,
- Talk to Me (Us All) About Palin: Open Thread,
- Flickr Makes the World Smaller,
- 23rd September Weekly Roundup,
- 8th September Weekly Roundup,
- Tumblr Rickroll: iPhone Audio Success,
- Tumblr in the Bronx,
- Comments Overhaul: Disqus Amongst Y'selves,
- 30th August Weeklyish Roundup,
- Interweave Crochet Fall 2008 Launch Party at Threadbear Fiber Arts,
- 21st August Weekly Roundup,
- Authenticity and Business Savvy = Mutually Exclusive?,
- Shaking the Caffeine Monkey Off My Back,
- Creators and Content and Buzz, Oh My!,
- 3rd August Weekly Roundup,
- 27th July Weekly(ish) Roundup,
- Help CrochetMe.com Get Their Geek On!,
- 18th July Weekly Roundup,
- Dr. Horrible: Taking Advantage of All Things,
- In- and Tangible,
- 10th July Weekly Roundup,
- Combating the Vacuum, Part III,
- Humongous Pom Pom = Warm Head,
- OMG! I Forgot the Pirate Goose!,
- 3rd July Weekly Roundup (Speed Version),
- A Canadian iPhone Dream,
- iPhone in Canada: Zoiks!,
- Combating the Vacuum, Part II,
- Combating Work-From-Home Vacuum,
- Remote,
- Cleo & Jayne Amigurumi = Defenders of the Yard,
- Flickr Meme,
- 25th June Weekly Roundup,
- Welcome, Getting Loopy Listeners,
- Getting Loopy Podcast Tomorrow,
- This Time the Yarn was Overshadowed by the People,
- Tagged,
- Canadian Crushes Stonehenge,
- The Vulcan Mind-meld was NOT MEANT FOR CANINES,
- 18th May Weekly Roundup,
- Crochet Me = Quirky,
- Bah. Humbug.,
- 10th May Weekly Roundup,
- An Open Letter to Hipsters,
- Our Bathroom = Famous,
- A Day in My Life: Weekday Version,
- Why I Love Vancouver: Reason #8,
- A Day in My Life: Weekend Version,
- Home Office Plan,
- Face-squinching Desire,
- Trackbacks: Keeping the Internets Interconnected,
- Ode to PowerBook G4,
- French Press Yumminess,
- 25th April Weekly Roundup,
- Normal,
- Knitting Daily TV Taping,
- Springtime Travels,
- The Great Manicure Test: FAILED,
- Model Citizen Scarf (and Fingernails),
- The Great Manicure Test,
- Spinning Again,
- Catching Up, Obsessed,
- Wee Sweater: Fin,
- Interviewed: YarnThing,
- Why I Love Vancouver: Reason #7,
- Sixth,
- Why I Love Vancouver: Reason #6,
- Frozen Grand Central,
- The Forecast is for Completion,
- Ah, Weekend,
- Icelandic Turtleneck: Fin,
- Ripple Blanket: Fin.,
- Knitting More Dangerous Than Blogging,
- New Year Meme,
- Have a Happy Happy,
- Wintry,
- Too Long To Catch Up,
- Day 48: Feverish Crocheting,
- Day 45: After the Rain,
- Ummm...,
- Day 21: Crochet Me 3.2 Is Live,
- Wednesday: Things That Make Me Happy,
- Day 13,
- First 12 Days,
- Day 1,
- I Nabbed a Sampler!,
- Schaefer Anne,
- Clapotis, She Is Blocking,
- Summer Holiday,
- New Soles of My Feet,
- Dinner, 25 June,
- Dishabituation,
- A Fan,
- Surprisingly Delicious,
- Help! What should we plant this year?,
- Thunder & The Vet,
- West Coast Knitters Guild,
- New Camera,
- Saturday Afternoon,
- Saturday Morning & Gearing Up,
- Why I Love Vancouver: Reason #5,
- Yeah, I'm That Guy,
- I got bangs,
- Granny-Along,
- Ripple + Ugly Doll: Day 7,
- Ripple, Day 6,
- Ripple, Day 5,
- Ripple, Day 4,
- Ripple, Day 3,
- Ripple, Day 2,
- Ripple-Along, Day 1,
- I'm Not Usually A Joiner,
- Why I Love Vancouver: Reason #4,
- Why I Love Vancouver: Reason #3,
- Deadly,
- Why I Love Vancouver: Reason #2,
- Spinning: The First,
- Um. I was really tired.,
- Eeeeee!,
- Excited!,
- Camera Ready,
- Huge News,
- A Note On Course Catalogs,
- On a really, really good day...,
- Cleo's Meme,
- If I Could Be A Super Hero,
- Perfect Portions,
- Crochet Me Winter Issue & Thanksgiving (Belated),
- A Failure (Or Success) of Branding,
- Why I Love Vancouver: Reason #1,
- Gilmore Girls Knit-A-Thon,
- Day 3: COLD,
- Think Geekier. Sheesh.,
- Snow Day!,
- First Snow, The Next Morning,
- First Snow,
- Beaten,
- Just Say No.,
- Fearful Competition,
- Hello. I'm Kim Werker.,
Books + Reading (64)
- 2018 Gift Guide for Creative Adventurers,
- Favourite Reads in 2017 (for Adults & Kids!),
- Harry Potter and Me, 18 Years Later,
- Awesome Novels You’ll Love Reading Aloud with Kids,
- How to Sell a Book,
- The Books I Read in 2015,
- Mmm. Watercolour Squares.,
- Knitter Anna Hrachovec Is a Genius,
- My 2014 in Reading,
- Tracking Down a Person Who Changed Everything,
- Little Boys and Dinosaurs over at Nosy Crow,
- All the Reading of 2013 (Or, Not),
- Let's start a DIY-focused digital publishing company.,
- New Book: The Insider's Guide to Starting an Online Sewing Pattern Business, by Abby Glassenberg,
- Dressing the Part,
- New Knitting Book: Cascadia!,
- Once, I was a pawn. It sucked.,
- The Feminist Factor: Yet More on Homeward Bound, by Emily Matchar,
- The Apocalypse Is Coming: More Thoughts on Homeward Bound,
- Sharing Game: Must-read Books,
- I'm an unnatural mother.,
- Make Bad Art - Great Advice from Austin Kleon,
- A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, by Anthony Marra,
- Givers, Matchers and Takers,
- Book Club Thoughts: Saturday Night Widows, by Becky Aikman,
- The Books I Loved and Hated in 2012,
- The Kind of Book Reader I Am,
- Why I Strip the DRM from All My Ebooks,
- It's Heavy, It's Light: Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn,
- This Book Made My Head Spin: I Am Forbidden,
- Will piracy ever die?,
- The Joy of Books,
- The Books I Loved and Hated in 2011,
- How I Use Evernote as a Writer and Crafter,
- Crafty Bookworm,
- "There's Lead in Your Lipstick" Blog Tour, DIY Face Mask Recipe and a Giveaway for Earth Day,
- The Best (and worst) Books I Read in 2010,
- Holiday Win: An Ode to the Indie Bookstore,
- How I Find the Books I Read,
- The Hunger Games Trilogy, by Suzanne Collins: Book Review,
- Win a Copy of The Knitgrrl Guide to Professional Knitwear Design!,
- Book Review - Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer, by John Grisham,
- Lowboy, by John Wray: Book Review,
- Go See The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,
- Book Review: The Book of Fires, by Jane Borodale,
- What All Went Down in '09,
- Book Review: Darwin's Radio, by Greg Bear,
- Partial Book Review: The Echo Maker, by Richard Powers,
- Literary Genres and Gender: Discuss!,
- Book Review: The Girl Next Door, by Elizabeth Noble,
- Zombies Ate the Brains of Pride and Prejudice,
- This Odd Year: A Third Through,
- 2009 Reading Lists (Oh my!),
- High School Books I'd Like To Revisit,
- RIP Michael Crichton,
- Wolves At My Gate,
- Twilight Saga: It Won't Ruin Girls' Lives, But I Sure Take Issue With It,
- Twilight and New Moon,
- Springtime Travels,
- A Weekend,
- Recommended Reads: Sci-Fi,
- Sock Knitting,
- Wanted: Quality Reads,
- Harry Potter 7,
Life (37)
- What I'm Making: A Kid's Pillow from Old Pajamas,
- What I'm Making: Baseball Birthday Party Tags,
- Vancouver Mini Maker Faire 2016,
- Halloween 2015: The Family DIY Star Wars,
- Back to School and All That,
- Lego for Boys, Lego for Girls: A Lego Friends Thing,
- #yearofmaking #2: Week 3,
- Passing Down Crochet,
- "No Rules with Paper Hats" – Vancouver Mini Maker Faire 2014,
- Little Boys and Dinosaurs over at Nosy Crow,
- A Rambling Round-up of 2013,
- Draw Me a Lion: Colouring-book Launch!,
- Apple Day!,
- I'm an unnatural mother.,
- Going Down the Glitter Rabbit Hole,
- A Wee Gardening Birthday Party,
- Draw Me a Lion,
- Imposing normal. And Halloween.,
- So much... so little...,
- On a Sunny Spring Day,
- Pleasantly Surprised: The New IKEA in Richmond, BC,
- Owen's First Work of Crayon,
- I am a mac-and-cheese GENIUS.,
- To Owen, on Your First Birthday,
- Virtual Planetoid Hat: A New Pattern!,
- Attack of the Baby Dinosaur!,
- Fall is the best season, especially in a handmade sweater.,
- It's Serious Business,
- Need a laugh?,
- A Desperate Plea to the Design Community: BABIES NEED YOU,
- Toothiness,
- Decor… with a Baby,
- Unless You Say So,
- Buffy Lives,
- So this happened yesterday.,
- To Owen, Upon Your Great-Grandma Dorothy's Death,
- Say hello to Owen William Piper Werker.,
Living Creatively (79)
- January 1st Has Passed – Who Cares? Start TODAY,
- Year of Making 2019: Kick Your Creativity into High Gear,
- 2018 Gift Guide for Creative Adventurers,
- How to Pack for a Crafty Road Trip,
- A Walk Every Day,
- Compulsory Podcast Episode 201: Cheryl Arkison,
- 2016 in Review: Best Apps and Software,
- Improvement Over Time,
- Back to My Bullet Journal,
- Time: What We Do and Don't Do with It,
- Spinzilla is almost here. Let's make a mess of it!,
- In a Fall Cooking Kind of Mood,
- Lego for Boys, Lego for Girls: A Lego Friends Thing,
- Log Cabin Quilt-Inspired Shelves,
- Get to Work Book & Bullet Journaling: First Impressions,
- New Work Round-up Now That I'm Home,
- Visiting the Edward Gorey House,
- Taking a Stab at Art Journaling,
- Creative Mornings Talk: The Stories We Tell Ourselves About Failure,
- My Great-Grandma Marian's Sewing Machine,
- Teasing Apart Fear and Danger,
- Must Read: Could the Clothes on Your Back Halt Global Warming?,
- Some April Notes (and Eye Masks!),
- Staying Obsessed: A Year of Making Update,
- A Rambling Round-up of 2013,
- The Rules I Follow,
- The Apocalypse Is Coming: More Thoughts on Homeward Bound,
- I'm an unnatural mother.,
- Paying Attention to the Mundane,
- My Desk, No Gloss,
- The Last Person I'd Want to Learn Anything From,
- Money. Money. Money. Part 5: What's a Real Job?,
- Money. Money. Money. Part 3: Cost of Living,
- Relationships (and Community) Are More Important Than Ambition,
- Meet Serenity (AKA Our Camping Shenanigans Begin!),
- More Than One Thing: A New Online Workshop!,
- Not Starting Without an Exit Strategy,
- Perspective,
- Neil Gaiman is wise.,
- How To Host a Poor-Man's Knitting & Crochet Retreat,
- Rut Race, Day 1: Who's With Me?,
- Caine's Arcade,
- I am a mac-and-cheese GENIUS.,
- Being Nudged to Practice What I Preach,
- Offline Life + Online Life = Life,
- The Power of Naming,
- Prying Control from Your Cold, Cramped Hands,
- Be afraid. Do it anyway.,
- Dear crafts, can we see other people?,
- Decor… with a Baby,
- On Quitting,
- Declaring Independence,
- How Much Mistake Can You Live With?,
- Finding Creative Satisfaction in Constraint: Project Spectrum,
- Unless You Say So,
- Basement Remodel Sneak Peek & Newspaper Story,
- Artisanal Whisky: The Thing I Loved at the Hopscotch Festival,
- Another Living Room Vignette (AKA Ode to the Thrifted Chair),
- From Make & Meaning: Setting Yourself Up for WIN,
- From Make & Meaning: Shades of Mediocrity,
- I ♥ Neighbourhood Yard Sales,
- From Make & Meaning: Alternatively, Try Anything Once,
- I need my diplomas like I need a...,
- Upcycled Old Door: Now It's a Side Table,
- Introducing Mighty Ugly,
- On a Creative Mission,
- What All Went Down in '09,
- What's a Real Job, Anyway?,
- Something Tells Me I'm Into Something Good,
- New Project! The Creative Life Blog,
- A Very Crafty Birthday, Indeed,
- This Odd Year: A Third Through,
- Redirecting Energy,
- TNNA: A Recap of the Self-Reflection Sort,
- Health Care: Friend or Foe?,
- Twyla Tharp on Creative Motivations and Failure,
- When Your Hero Speaks and Says What You're Thinking,
- Living Creatively,
- Beginnings, Ends—Pshaw! It's All A Big Spiral (AKA: Big Announcements),
Making (189)
- 2018 Gift Guide for Creative Adventurers,
- How to Pack for a Crafty Road Trip,
- Crafting for a Change: Vogue Knitting Holiday 2017,
- What I'm Making: A Homespun Ombre Shawl,
- DIY Halloween-Stamp Treat Bags – With Free Template!,
- What I'm Making: Veronika Cardigan,
- What I'm Making: A Kid's Pillow from Old Pajamas,
- What I'm Making: A Very Short Woven Scarf,
- What I'm Making: A Second Sock!,
- What I'm Making: Kid-Size Messenger Bags,
- What I'm Making: An Embroidery Sampler,
- What I'm Making: A Sock,
- What I'm Making: A Knitted Hat in Handspun Yarn,
- What I'm Making: Baseball Birthday Party Tags,
- What I'm Making: Glass Beads for the First Time,
- What I Learned Sewing with Knits for the First Time,
- How to Crochet a Two-Colour Spiral,
- Sophie's Universe, Part 2 (AKA This Crochet Project Is Addictive),
- How to Make DIY Tinted Lip Balm with Sun Protection,
- My Take on a Crocheted Pussyhat,
- Free Pattern: Simplest Crochet Hat!,
- Free Template: Carve a Stamp and Make Cards for Any Occasion!,
- 2016 Gift Guide for Creative Adventurers,
- A Day of Tapestry Weaving,
- Daily Art Journal: Join Me for a Monthlong Adventure!,
- What I'm Learning: Pottery,
- How to Make Eco-Printed Postcards: A Maker Concierge Report,
- What I'm Making: Pottery!,
- How to Get Started Quilting with Old Clothes: A Maker Concierge Report,
- How to Make a Graveyard Themed Terrarium: A Maker Concierge Report,
- How to Get Started Hand Quilting: A Maker Concierge Report,
- 3 Ways to Stop Fantasizing and Start Making Your Dream Project,
- How To Make a Stamp of Your Kid's Handwriting,
- My Craftsy Class Queue,
- 5 Reasons to Do a Year of Making (+ Free Worksheet!),
- Video: Bookbinding for the First Time,
- Periscope Video: Weaving on a Frame Loom for the First Time,
- Video: Assembling and Warping a Frame Loom for the First Time,
- Periscope: First Broadcast and a Request for Help,
- Just in Time for Curling and Snow: Calorimetry!,
- Renate Hiller "On Handwork",
- How to Write a Crochet Pattern, Part 5: Putting It All Together,
- Clay Adventure: Making a Mug,
- Halloween 2015: The Family DIY Star Wars,
- I Made a Sock!,
- Spinzilla 2015: The Skinny,
- Spinning Yarn. Badly. And Loving It.,
- Knitting Socks,
- Spinzilla is almost here. Let's make a mess of it!,
- On Being an Expert in Doing Things I Have No Idea How to Do,
- Knitty on Patreon: A Perfect Match,
- Mmm. Watercolour Squares.,
- #MakeMakingFun Weekend Project: Toilet-paper Tube,
- Knitter Anna Hrachovec Is a Genius,
- #makefun: Colouring as an Adult,
- 39!,
- Block Printing: I Made This!,
- Crocheted Rag Rug (and How to Crochet a Perfect Circle),
- Happy 100th Day of Making!,
- Compulsory Podcast Special Burrito Bulletin: Lauren Venell,
- The Gay Sweater,
- Bath Fizzies: Fun for Kids and Grown-ups (with Recipe!),
- #yearofmaking #2: Week 4,
- #yearofmaking #2: Week 3,
- Homemade Deodorant, Part I,
- Passing Down Crochet,
- First Day, Five Days, and Crochet,
- Hand Spinning in the Digital Age,
- Another Cardboard Halloween Costume,
- Creative Mornings Talk: The Stories We Tell Ourselves About Failure,
- Casting on to Knit a Sleepbot 3000,
- My Craftsy Crochet Class Is Live!,
- Index-Card-A-Day: Some Cards,
- Cold-Process Shampoo Bars: Who Knew?,
- Back in the Crochet Saddle,
- Craftcation 2014: Amazeballs!,
- The Get Carded Wallet,
- Some April Notes (and Eye Masks!),
- Using Honey in Making Cold-Process Soap,
- Staying Obsessed: A Year of Making Update,
- OpenKnit: Open-source Knitting Machine,
- I Made Soap!,
- Help Rebuild Ohio Knitting Mills,
- Knitting the City: New Spanish Yarn Bombing Documentary,
- A Year of Making,
- Knit City: Friends, Yarn and My Duct Tape Doppelgänger,
- I don't know how to paint, but I painted anyway.,
- A Cape in One Night!,
- Draw Me a Lion: Colouring-book Launch!,
- Don't Panic! Last-minute Cardboard Halloween Costumes for Super DIY Fun,
- New Knitting Book: Cascadia!,
- Apple Day!,
- Going Down the Glitter Rabbit Hole,
- A Weekend of Crafty Funtimes,
- I have sewn clothes!,
- The Last Person I'd Want to Learn Anything From,
- A Finished Shawl (Plus a Teaching Announcement!),
- Link Love: Thrifted blankets, Comment Trolls and Twin Peaks,
- You guys, I know how to sew!,
- Collecting Trash to Make Stuff,
- Knitscene Summer 2013,
- "The Pitfalls of Sharing What I've Made with the World",
- How to Crochet Bobbles in a Knitting Project,
- I made a Honey Cowl!,
- A Chat About Online Teaching (and Learning) with Mercedes Tarasovich-Clark,
- The Holocene made it to the TOC Startup Showcase Finals!,
- A Toast to Craftypod,
- 2012: A Round-up of Making,
- Draw Me a Lion,
- I made a hat!,
- New Pattern: Sybil Cowl,
- Imposing normal. And Halloween.,
- So much... so little...,
- What I Learned About Crochet from a Roomful of Knitters,
- A Long-Ago Crochet Lecture,
- Land & Sea Baby Blanket Pattern,
- Land and Sea Blanket: Sneak Peek!,
- A Tool Butler and a Good Cause,
- A Mistake!,
- A Wedding Shawl,
- T-Shirt to Plush in Half an Hour,
- Finished Rae Scarf: Knit-Along Triumph!,
- Industriousness: WIP Wednesday,
- How To Host a Poor-Man's Knitting & Crochet Retreat,
- Rut Race, Day 6: Keep on Keeping On,
- A Blanket and a Pillow: WIP Wednesday,
- Land and Sea: Still Near the Beginning,
- Yes, please!,
- Land and Sea: The Beginning,
- Slippers for a Border Guard,
- My 2011, in Crafts,
- Crafty Bookworm,
- Attack of the Baby Dinosaur!,
- Fall is the best season, especially in a handmade sweater.,
- Finished: A Wee Toque!,
- Prying Control from Your Cold, Cramped Hands,
- Stash Bash and a Studio Sneak Peek,
- Dear crafts, can we see other people?,
- New Tutorial on CRAFT: Need a Push to Make Something Ugly?,
- Vancouver Mini Maker Faire,
- Maker Faire Excitement,
- The Simplest, Most Time-Consuming, Impressive Dessert EVER,
- Shwin & Shwin's 20-Minute Upcycled T-Shirt Scarf,
- Knitted Dalek: The Geekiest, Most Awesome Baby Gift Ever,
- My Authorly Thoughts on Ebooks and Piracy,
- Oh look, crafts!,
- 2010: My Year in Crafts,
- A Home-Alone Crafting BONANZA,
- Videoblog the Second: Mighty Ugly and CreativeMix,
- Dude, I Learned How to Sew.,
- Roundup of Last-Minute Halloween Costume Ideas,
- Sometimes an iPad Case Needs a Cover,
- Videoblog the First: Summing Up My Screen Printing Bonanza,
- Ripples in Time,
- Contest & Fundraiser! Donate & you could win yarn or fibre!,
- From Make & Meaning: My Crafty Digital Toolkit,
- From Make & Meaning: Crafting on Autopilot,
- Another Living Room Vignette (AKA Ode to the Thrifted Chair),
- Screen-Printing Extravaganza!,
- What Would the Picard Do: A Screen Printing Test,
- Upcycled Clock Parts ➥ Earrings,
- Know This Thread?,
- From Make & Meaning: Diving in After a Dry Spell,
- Contest! Win Lorna's Laces Unicorn Parade Yarn,
- That Summit Really Was Awesome,
- Heading Back to Portland: Summit of Awesome,
- Housekeeping!,
- Introducing Mighty Ugly,
- Interview with a Bead Artist: Teresa Sullivan,
- Handmade Nation at the Museum of Vancouver,
- Back to Our Regularly Scheduled Making Stuff,
- Win a Hank of Olympics Medal Yarn,
- I Love Simple Things,
- No Shadows in Sight. BING!,
- I just want to make more.,
- What All Went Down in '09,
- Game Knitting!,
- Urban Craft Uprising: WIN,
- Kristi Porter, Author of Knitting in the Sun: Blog Tour,
- Sweater Inferno: CraftFAIL,
- Redirecting Energy,
- Portland and Craftiness and Fail and Win,
- Nameless Podcast Episode 1: Diversifying with Jenny Ryan,
- Passing Notes,
- Welcome, Craftypod and Cast On Listeners!,
- More Than Just Duplicitous and Evil: Joss Whedon on Crafts and Craftiness,
- Hypothetically: If You Could Ask Joss Whedon One Crafty Question...,
- A Weekend,
- Sock Knitting,
Mighty Ugly (66)
- UBC Maker Camp 2016,
- Mighty Ugly for Valentine's Day at the Chattanooga Public Library,
- 5 Reasons to Do a Year of Making (+ Free Worksheet!),
- On Being an Expert in Doing Things I Have No Idea How to Do,
- Ugly Creature from a Reader: Meet Petunia Alex,
- A Mighty Ugly Recap of Maker Camp @ UBC,
- Happy Birthday, Make It Mighty Ugly!,
- Skype Date with a Book Group,
- Happy Birthday, Mighty Ugly!,
- “I hate to fail, so I quit sometimes.”,
- New CreativeLive Class on February 10th: Embrace the Ugly,
- 2014 Year in Review,
- The First Since the Book Came Out: Write Me a Letter,
- NaNoWriMo 2014: I'm Doing It,
- Monday Morning Mind Dump,
- Bay Area Book Tour Funtimes,
- Book-tour Workshops: The Skinny,
- Video: By All Means Create,
- It's Mighty Ugly Book Day!,
- Interview on 49th Shelf's The Interruption, with Sean Cranbury,
- Creative Mornings Talk: The Stories We Tell Ourselves About Failure,
- Starred Review in Library Journal,
- "No Rules with Paper Hats" – Vancouver Mini Maker Faire 2014,
- Teasing Apart Fear and Danger,
- Tracking Down a Person Who Changed Everything,
- Craftcation 2014: Amazeballs!,
- Some April Notes (and Eye Masks!),
- The book has a cover!,
- Make It Mighty Ugly: Preorder the Book Today!,
- On Being Ugly,
- A Rambling Round-up of 2013,
- That Time in High School When I Won an Award,
- I don't know how to paint, but I painted anyway.,
- The Rules I Follow,
- Like, I finished my manuscript.,
- Guest Blogger Ruth Garcia-Alcantud on Fear and Creative Block,
- Guest Blogger Tara Swiger on Ugly in Creative Business: It Does Exist,
- Guest Blogger Kate Atherley on Fear and Learning: Embrace The Suck!,
- Lauren Bacon on The One Question You Must Ask,
- Understanding How to Frame Your Creative Expertise,
- "She's jealous and has too much time on her hands.",
- Austin Kleon on the Fetishization of Creativity,
- So I just had this conversation.,
- David Kelley on Building Your Creative Confidence,
- I had an internet nemesis.,
- Paying Attention to the Mundane,
- Make Bad Art - Great Advice from Austin Kleon,
- Sometimes It Ain't Pretty: My Mighty Ugly Talk at Hot Art Wet City,
- I bought the newspaper today! (For I am in it!),
- My Desk, No Gloss,
- Money. Money. Money. Part 2: The Costs of Growth,
- Collecting Trash to Make Stuff,
- Guest Post on the Maven Circle Blog: On Secrets and Community,
- Embracing the Ugly Side of Business: Video,
- Interviewed on Mochimochi Land,
- Vancouver Mini Maker Faire 2012, Visual Recap,
- Bringing Mighty Ugly to Vancouver Mini Maker Faire 2012,
- Longshot Radio on Creativity and Failure (I'm on It!),
- Rut Race, Day 4: Release the Imagination,
- Rut Race, Day 2: Do Some Work of MINE,
- Looking Ahead to Vancouver Maker Faire 2012, a Look Back at 2011,
- The Power of Naming,
- Be afraid. Do it anyway.,
- Hello Etsy and Deep Economy,
- The Fair, the Unfair and the Ugly: Working for Free and Working for Pay,
- New Tutorial on CRAFT: Need a Push to Make Something Ugly?,
My Books + Classes (42)
- Register Now! Jumpstart Your Creative Practice Stress-Free in 2019,
- New Class! Zigzag Crochet: A Beginner's Guide to Ripples and Waves,
- Mighty Ugly for Valentine's Day at the Chattanooga Public Library,
- 5 Reasons to Do a Year of Making (+ Free Worksheet!),
- Joy and Neighbourliness and Books All Over the World,
- Happy Birthday, Make It Mighty Ugly!,
- Skype Date with a Book Group,
- 2014 Year in Review,
- New Ebook: Year of Making,
- The First Since the Book Came Out: Write Me a Letter,
- NaNoWriMo 2014: I'm Doing It,
- Monday Morning Mind Dump,
- Portland, Seattle & Vancouver Book Tour Funtimes!,
- Hittin' the Road,
- It's Mighty Ugly Book Day!,
- Interview on 49th Shelf's The Interruption, with Sean Cranbury,
- Books Are Real, Smithsonian Event, San Francisco Workshop,
- Starred Review in Library Journal,
- The book has a cover!,
- Make It Mighty Ugly: Preorder the Book Today!,
- Oh hi.,
- Like, I finished my manuscript.,
- How I Use Evernote as a Writer and Crafter,
- Crafty Bookworm,
- Stash Bash and a Studio Sneak Peek,
- Win a Signed Copy of Crochet Me and Crochet Visual Quick Tips!,
- My Authorly Thoughts on Ebooks and Piracy,
- Teach Yourself Visually Crochet: 2nd Edition Now Available!,
- What All Went Down in '09,
- Crocheted Gifts Book Live Twitter Event,
- Interviews and Essays,
- Giving Books for the Holidays,
- Crochet Me Wins PubWest Book Design Award,
- 25th April Weekly Roundup,
- Not crochet you. Crochet ME!,
- Ranked!,
- Get Hooked Again!,
- The Canvas of My Life,
- Crocheting = Good for Babies,
- Sneak Peek: Crochet Me, The Book,
- Coffee Break,
- A Visual Assault,
Podcast (13)
Compulsory is a podcast about the things we can't help but make.
- Compulsory Podcast Episode 202: Betsy Greer,
- Compulsory Podcast Episode 201: Cheryl Arkison,
- A Resurrection,
- Compulsory Podcast Special Burrito Bulletin: Lauren Venell,
- Compulsory Podcast Episode 7: Rachael Herron,
- Compulsory Podcast Bonus Episode: Joel Watson,
- Compulsory Podcast, Episode 6: Joel Watson,
- Further to Our Podcast Chat: Isaac Watson's Notes on Narrative,
- Compulsory Podcast Episode 5: Isaac Watson,
- Compulsory Podcast Episode 4: Miriam Felton,
- Compulsory Podcast Episode 3: Meighan O'Toole,
- Compulsory Podcast Episode 2: Abby Glassenberg,
- Compulsory Podcast Episode 1: Rachael Ashe,
Writing + Editing (50)
- Welcome, Costco Readers!,
- Are you a Cohen or a Dylan?,
- How to Write a Crochet Pattern, Part 5: Putting It All Together,
- How to Write a Crochet Pattern, Part 1: The Front Matter,
- Authors Guild, Google Books, and Readers,
- New Work Round-up Now That I'm Home,
- Adventure in Self-Publishing: Lithuanian Knitting,
- Compulsory Podcast Episode 7: Rachael Herron,
- 2014 Year in Review,
- Editing in the Wild: Pattern Writing for Knit Designers,
- NaNoWriMo 2014: I'm Doing It,
- Stories in Stitches,
- Interview on 49th Shelf's The Interruption, with Sean Cranbury,
- Blogging = Writing,
- Tracking Down a Person Who Changed Everything,
- New Newsletter (AKA TinyLetter Love),
- A Rambling Round-up of 2013,
- Advice,
- Let's start a DIY-focused digital publishing company.,
- That Time in High School When I Won an Award,
- Guest Post: Abby Glassenberg on Hiring an Editor for a Self-publishing Project,
- Please tell me: Is there ANOTHER Author's Guild?,
- New Book: The Insider's Guide to Starting an Online Sewing Pattern Business, by Abby Glassenberg,
- New Knitting Book: Cascadia!,
- Oh hi.,
- Like, I finished my manuscript.,
- Neil Gaiman on What's Wrong and How to Fix It,
- So I just had this conversation.,
- How To Be Prolific: Guidelines For Getting It Done From Joss Whedon,
- Money. Money. Money. Part 4: Where it Comes From,
- Knitscene Summer 2013,
- If you type two spaces after a period, you're doing it wrong.,
- My Authorly Thoughts on Ebooks and Piracy,
- Teach Yourself Visually Crochet: 2nd Edition Now Available!,
- 2010: A Year of Apps,
- An Ode to Contractions, the Key to Your Voice,
- New Project: Make & Meaning - Creative Community in Conversation,
- Writing a Novel in a Month (and Other Fun Stuff),
- What's a Blogger?,
- Interviews and Essays,
- New Project! The Creative Life Blog,
- Opinions as Online Currency,
- Thursday Stories: A Fairytale of Sorts,
- Thursday Stories: Garbage Pail Kids in the City,
- Where Are the Crochet Bloggers?,
- 365.46 (Editing),
- On Editing: Style,
- Welcome, Getting Loopy Listeners,
- On Editing: Q & A on Vision,
- On Editing: Vision,
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