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Category Archives: MY PROJECTS
Hand-Stitched Felt.
So, perhaps you consider yourself to be a jaded crafter. And as far as you know, toymaking doesn’t have a regular place in the crafting repertoire you’ve created for your oh-so-grownup and cynical self. Maybe you even tend to make only what you deem to be useful items like clothing or, on a particularly whimsical day, [...]
My Wordy Valentine.
My handmade valentines in past years have often been of the “a picture’s worth a thousand words” variety, with paper cuts or found images. But this year I decided to let the dictionary speak for me. This valentine includes definitions of words (like together, pair, gaga, etc.) that evoke the holiday, clipped out of an [...]
Mulled Claret for Heroes.
I am keenly devoted to warm drinks all through the winter, but on unusually blustery days like today—especially when friends come visiting—my ambitions go beyond pots of strongly steeped tea. On such days, I might make up a batch of steamy, citrusy mulled wine. And my favorite recipe for mulled wine comes from The Week-End [...]
Beehive Inspired Tea Cozy.
Beekeepers have a long history of making ingenious homes for their bees. But before the days of moveable frame hives and bee space, beekeepers’ material of choice was often straw coiled and woven to form squat coneshaped baskets.
Inspired by these iconic straw bee skeps, I made a beehive teapot cozy that takes its design cues from [...]
Pennants Fly at the BiblioBall.
Last Friday was the Desk Set’s BiblioBall, and in my role as a crafty volunteer I created a string of nearly one hundred snowy white pennants to hang from the rafters at The Bell House. You can see them here, alongside lovely trapeze artist Jean Loscalzo (who is also hanging from the rafters):
What you can’t [...]
This Is Your Brain on Yarn.
I’ve tried knitting lace before, and I’ve had modest successes with small repeats and with patterns of just a few rows. But after admiring the intricate and elegant sweater patterns in French Girl Knits and deciding to try my hand at one, I knew that I was in for a challenge. And I’m here to [...]
My Log Has Something to Tell You.