Made By Humans
One thing that is a fun creative challenge is to combine different materials or genres of art or craft into the same project. I know somewhere once I saw a list of a bunch of different crafty mashups, and I’m pretty sure I pinned it, but of course now I can’t find it, but when […]
If you’ve been following along for very long at all, you probably know that I am not that great at drawing, and it is a skill that I would like to improve. So I’m setting myself some drawing challenges, the first of which was to try to really draw a face. This was inspired by […]
Twinkie Chan refers to herself on her website as “that girl who crochets food scarves.” And while that is part of what she does, she’s inspired by food and pop culture in all sorts of ways to create wearables, home decor and more. Her latest book, Crochet Abode a la Mode: 20 Yummy Crochet Projects […]
With all the sewing I have been doing this week, there are a lot of little bits of fabric lying around. I decided to make fabric out of scraps that I’ll use for a project or two next week. It’s a great idea to consistently do this with your fabric scraps to avoid having a […]
This is, in a way, a continuation of yesterday’s challenge to do something that scares you, at least for me. I wanted to keep playing with my serger, of course, so in a way just making something with my serger is a way to do something you’ve never done before for me. But I wanted […]
Is there something craft-related that scares you? Not so scary that you would never try it (that’s probably me with woodworking and welding, because I’m somewhat accident prone), but scary that you really wish you could do? I have two major activities in that category: sewing zippers and using a serger. I always wanted a […]
This week’s Iron Craft challenge was supposed to be something unexpected. As expected, I had trouble coming up with something. But I’d had this idea that I wanted to make a bulky yarn to use in my classes this summer for demonstration purposes, so I decided to take this opportunity to do it. I don’t […]