Made By Humans
I write about crafts and creativity regularly, but even I sometimes don’t feel that creative. It’s been particularly hard lately getting jazzed creatively with the busyness of fall, the pressure of developing the next book idea and the stress of having a kid who’s been sick on and off for more than a week. I […]
In my career I’ve had a hard time with labels. All the writing I do about crafting and knitting in particular sets me up as a person who is sharing her knowledge. A teacher, if you will. Anyone who Googles knitting, finds my site and looks at the more than 1,500 articles I’ve written and […]
Sometimes it’s hard being a crafty mama. You expect to be able to make lots of cute stuff for any occasion, but then the occasion comes and you don’t have time to perfectly hand craft every last detail. Or really any details. So it was with the girl’s birthday this year. Coming just a week […]
One day last week, the Bit was having a rough morning. I don’t even remember what was going on; bad mornings tend to all look the same from a distance even though the details are slightly different from day to day. It’s likely we were rushing around, she didn’t want to get dressed or put […]
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how I’m not feeling very creative and what I can do to get through this period of time where I’m not that interested in making things. It’s something we all go through as creative people (if you don’t, you’re probably not stretching yourself enough) so it seems useful […]
If you follow me anywhere on social media, you probably already know that my book, Quick & Easy Baby Knits has been released out into the world. (And if you don’t follow me on social media, go click on some of those buttons at the top right, why don’t you?) This came as a bit […]
So, remember how I couldn’t stop talking about being a part of the awesome Listen to Your Mother show back in May? And how I promised I would let you watch the video? Well, the videos are up, and here is mine. I think watching it may have been scarier than actually doing it. I […]