When I was in Albany for the Black Sheep Gathering the last weekend of June, I taught all day on Friday, then hung out with my bestie Maria from A Needle Runs Through It for much of Saturday. I helped in the booth, visited with friends old and new, and started a new wee weaving project on the Mini Looms …
Put a Hexie on it: add EPP to everything for a more colorful life!
I have a LOT of English Paper Piecing blocks and motifs and projects started and small shapes I’m playing with and samples for classes and this, that, and the other. I mean a LOT. What to do with a zillion half-finished EPP projects? Put them on a garment/bag/journal! (It’s like that old Portlandia sketch, Put a Bird On It, but …
An ode to low-stakes crafting
I love a craft that doesn’t ask much of me… There’s this whole process vs product crafting debate that comes up every know and then in the crafting community. Are you a person who crafts to craft, or are you a person who crafts for the thing you’re making? As with many binary structures, the truth is often “a bit …
Making as response to the world
Maybe it’s not an antidote, but it sure does help I have found myself scrolling so much more lately… it’s like a physical compunction, and I can’t for the life of me find an actual justification for it. There are a million reasons: the world sucks; DT is breaking everything; I have had a weird shock/loss that I don’t quite …
Socks & Hats on Vacay 2022
Even though some of us are still contending with very non–summer weather (snow! hail! cold!), we are mere weeks away from our favorite time of the year: Socks & Hats on Vacay time! We have oodles of fun things planned for this summer, but one thing I’m doing differently is I’m not releasing a new pattern collection. Designing has become …
Ewe Tubes : Pattern Downloads
Here is the pattern for the SOCKS! Here is the pattern for the FINGERLESS MITTS!
Payhip, a new way to shop
With Ravelry continuing to refuse to acknowledge the harm they are causing, and refusing to take any actual steps to ensure its users are safe, long-time Ravelry users are in a difficult position. Add to that a business owner whose main source of pattern sale income is from Ravelry, and it’s a stressful time for indie designers (on top of …
The New Ravelry
Hey y’all! Ravelry recently updated their site, and changed pretty much everything. At first, folks were complaining about the aesthetics of it, which I was very against. It’s their site, and their aesthetic style, so if they want it to look like it now looks, as long as it’s safe for folks to be on, that’s totally fine with me …
the Accountability Post, 2020
It’s always kind of awkward, sharing information about money and finances. But, accountability is important, particularly when something is as important as this. And, if I’m asking you to support my business with the purchase of my patterns so I can donate money to organizations that are doing good work, I must share that I did, in fact, do that. …
More pants!
With all of this talking about collaboration, I cannot ignore the obsessive component of my partnership/friendship/collaborative-inspirational-situation with my girl LJ. We both dive into things head-first, and often get super duper obsessed with things. There was the Pyrex-amassment-project of 2014-2015. The can’t-get-enough-pens-planners-and-stationary-supplies-enterprise of 2016-17. 2018 will go down in HerStory as the year of make-up. 2018 is also quickly becoming …
Instagram Links
Something weird happened with the Linktree, the link page situation I’ve been using, so in the meantime, here are links I’ve talked about on Instagram lately (I’ll be adding to this as I have energy):
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