My friend Kayte is on a west coast tour with her beautiful new book, Applique Your Way. She’s in San Francisco now and heads up to Portland to see us in a few days too! If you’re in the Bay Area or around here, be sure to mark your calendars! (And if you’re in San…
My friend Nicole pointed me to this beautiful whales gocco print from Kids Haus this week and I wanted to share it over here, too: Michelle of Kids Haus designed and printed this lovely piece in honor of her dear friend who passed away this year, leaving an 8-year-old daughter. Michelle wrote a very moving…
Just want to announce (a bit late) that Lee Meredith and Bridget Benton have unveiled their lovely craft projects to wrap up the free Knittn Kitten pattern parade! Lee designed these extremely cool knitted zipper pouches — they are darling. I love the contrast vintage fabric lining. and Bridget made a great series of pieces…
I’m very excited to be part of the new Crafty Tree Trimmings ornament-making ebook! I was asked to design something with beads and buttons, so I made a set of Sparkle Ornaments — a super fun way to use some of my favorite glittery bits and pieces. I made two ornaments, a pink and gold…
I made my daughter Pearl a Yoda costume for Halloween — starting with a hat from Heather Mann’s fantastic and easy tutorial, and dipped into my stash to pick out a set of brown buttons for his eyes. I actually made three versions of the hat, in baby, small toddler and big toddler sizes. So…
I’m happy to announce that it’s my week to have a free craft project sheet at the Knittn Kitten! The week actually started Tuesday (ahem) but I’m a little swamped right now, so here’s a peek at my project a day after Diane and Heather were nice enough to write about it… This is an…
I wanted to mention two super cool craft classes going on tomorrow here in Portland… Alison Wood is teaching Stamp Carving at 100th Monkey Studios! 12-2 at 100th Monkey, $15 110 SE 16th Ave, Portland And Cathy Pitters is teaching Sugar Skull Decorating at DIY Lounge — with music and refreshments, too! 3-6 at DIY…
Wow, this week (month? however long?) has been crazy and I have been hoping to find the time to post about some stuff I’m excited about, but that has been in very short supply. I have a big deadline November 1 and after that I hope to resurface and actually make some fun things and…
When I lived in Los Feliz, one of my favorite things to do was visit other neighborhoods in Los Angeles and take pictures of cool things I’d never seen before. This tile mosiac mural at the Federal Building downtown totally captivated me — so beautiful and so well preserved. Speaking of tile mosiacs, Clifton’s has…
I finished the Yoda costume for Pearl this week and I’m so pleased that the tutorial is up over at the CRAFT: blog! I had a lot of fun making all the bits and pieces, especially the hat (I actually ended doing a set of three, in baby, small toddler, and big toddler sizes —…
I’m sewing away on Pearl’s Yoda costume so I only have a minute — but I wanted to mention that Teresa Sullivan has her new weekly project up for grabs at the Knittn Kitten! You can still get copies of Heather Mann‘s Statement Necklace how-to from last week (I picked one up a few days…
Yesterday afternoon, Pearl and I went out to Oscar & Albert with some friends for a toddler-friendly happy hour (I highly recommend the grilled cheese sandwich). Unfortunately, when we left I dropped my beloved hip holster with my wallet inside on Division St. and didn’t notice until we got home quite awhile later. I called…