The secret agents (that’s me looking oh-so stealth and oh-so short on the far left) of the Department of Craft are excited to announce our big move over to wordpress! Check it out for announcements, events and all of our past craft challenges!
We’re still at the same place, right here.

I just sent out a box full of eye pillows to a yoga studio in Norway. It’s the first store my products will be sold from and I think Norway is a good place to start!
Here they are, all nestled in a box and ready to go.

And some new ones at the bottom just getting [...]

In January, I was lucky enough to spend the day in one of my favorite cities ever: Portland, Oregon. I had a list of must-visits and on the top of that list is always Reading Frenzy , a great spot for zines, art books and graphic novels. One of my (many) purchases was a zine [...]

I have another post up on the Adorn blog on Helle Jorgensen and her amazing crocheted sea creatures. Check it out!

Everyone seems to be all over yellow right now. Yellow is not usually a color I pay a whole lot of attention to (if you’re wondering my favorite colors are tiffany blue and cotton candy pink) but I love the way it looks in these pictures from the Spring Marie Claire Idées.

This chair makeover [...]

I must ask a little favor: I was chosen as a finalist in the Softie Awards (I know, I’m so excited!) for the Pincushion and the Food categories and I would be forever grateful if you voted for me.
Here are the softies:

All you have to do to vote is go here. And check out all [...]

I just keep making stuff from this fabric: CD covers, patchwork and now a new bag! I think this was the best Ebay purchase ever.
The bag is from an Amy Butler pattern, I added the details. It looks like they don’t carry the pattern anymore but she has some newer adorable patterns available on her [...]

Despite the snow on the ground and the freezing nights, I am in a spring fashion frenzy. I have a job coming up which (gasp) requires lots of magazine tears and so I have read about ten fashion magazines this weekend and see no end in sight.
Normally, I try not to read too many fashion [...]

You might remember that I went to a lecture at the Museum of Art and Design this week from, well, the post right before this one. Apparently I will be spending an awful lot of time there while the “Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting” show is up because there are some amazing things going [...]

I am such a crafty nerd that I actually got a little tingly buzz about this: issue #7 of art-is-craft and craft-is-art magazine Knit Knit and a lecture at the Museum of Art and Design by the magazine’s founder Sabrina Gschwandtner!
Gschwandtner will cover the wide range of knitting’s cross-disciplinary uses, from clothing, sculpture and performance, [...]