You can probably tell by how I make my living that I’m a bit of a craft geek, but I’m also a book geek, or at least an aspiring book geek. I read a lot (though a lot of it is books about knitting and crafts, which I somehow feel don’t count) and I’m consistently […]
Spring Clean Your Pinterest Page: Break Up Boards
I think most of us, when we started building Pinterest boards, probably didn’t quite realize what we were getting into. So we made our categories pretty general, or vague, or we weren’t exactly sure what to do with things so we just put them somewhere. I, for instance, have a board called “general craftiness.” It […]
Learn Serging with a Free Class from Craftsy
Note: I’m an affiliate of Craftsy, but I have also taken classes from the service and love it. So there. One of my big goals related to crafting for a couple of years now has been to learn how to use a serger. I’ve actually had a serger that I bought myself as a Christmas […]
In Which I Pretend to Know How to Crochet {Iron Craft}
This week’s Iron Craft challenge was to make something with string. Since knitting is my job, I usually try not to knit for these challenges, because I want them to be fun and to be something different from what I usually craft. I’d been reading the super fun book Arne & Carlos Knit-and-Crochet Garden and […]
My Crazy Process
A long-ago colleague of mine, fiction writer Lori Ericson, contacted me recently and asked me if I wanted to be part of a blog tour on different writers’ processes. I said sure, not really thinking about what it would mean to share how I work, because it’s a little crazy. Oh well, too late! I […]
The Case of the Tangled Doll Hair {Found it on Pinterest}
A long time ago I used to do a “Found it on Pinterest” Friday post where I made something or tried something I had pinned and reported on it. As part of my spring cleaning of my Pinterest boards, I’ve decided to make an effort to do that again. I started with an easy one: […]
Spring Clean Your Pinterest Page: Getting Rid of Old Boards
Happy spring, everyone in the Northern Hemisphere! This year more than most it feels like we’ve really survived something and that this day is a celebration. I am feeling in the spirit of spring cleaning, but with next week being spring break I don’t know how much I’ll get done until I have some time […]