There are a lot of great qualities about my new old dresser, but there are a lot of bad things going on with it too. It has this great molding and wonderful little legs that remind me of Wallace and Grommet’s Holiday to the moon (the little moon machine with

You may or may not be aware of my issues with embroidery. It seems that although I can follow a pattern just fine, my own pattern attempts have been, well, “okay”. Haha. The strange thing is that I don’t have any of these issues with crewel embroidery. Here, here, and

After cramming my apartment’s and studio’s stuff into an already occupied one bedroom (large one bedroom) apartment the decor is bland, messy, crowded, and bland. We have okay stuff, just too much and not nice furniture. I hodge podge of old-roommates’-off-the-curb-hand-me-down-thrift-shop-standard-just-graduated-college-and-have-no-money furniture. It’s so true. Our small stuff is great,

I was going to post today but a few things came up and I have a fun post planned for tomorrow instead. I need to take some pictures and it was too dark by the time the thing I wanted to post about found its way back to the apartment.

Geesh. Okay, so thank goodness someone was finally like “free pattern archive, what the heck is she talking about?” Not an exact quote, but that’s what I would have been thinking. So the last time I updated the archive I succeeded in setting every single page of patterns in the

Mary L. from Chicago! Now what’s this all about? Well, if you scroll down to the bottom of this interview you will see a contest for some roving or some hand dyed yarn. The post mark deadline was the first and now all the results are in. I had Jason

I am not sure when I first heard of Burda Style, maybe a year or so ago, but I have always enjoyed their open source ways. While researching Burda Style I became more drawn into the Open Source aspect of it, which seems to be the foundation for the site,

I cannot remember how old I was exactly. Nineteen maybe eighteen. I remember I had graduated high school not too long before that. Before England, after graduation. So somewhere between 2000 and 2003. My friend and I were starting to look into crafts. We were determined to be artists, not

I collected up all the entries: And picked a witness. Molly, being the chief safety officer, presided over the drawing to make sure there was no fooling around, foul play, or cheating: Suspense! Who could it be? Congratulations Nicole! I just sent you an email to get your mailing address,

Hey there folks! I have my issue in my hands and it is such a winner. Not only do I have my first ever published tutorial on page 58 (preview here), but all the other articles are amazing! They have a huge section on weaving, many articles from many artists,

It’s so funny how some weeks are a bust. Polymer clay gone wrong and now embroidery (which I’m usually just fine with). I spent all day today working on today’s pattern, seriously for the last 7+ hours straight, when I finished I was so excited until I realized one horrifying