What Do You Want to Make Today?
I think (assume, hope) that all crafters from time to time have projects that get put in time out. Whether you made a mistake and you aren’t sure how to fix it or you’re frustrated, bored, annoyed or otherwise done with that project before it is finished, it gets exiled to some place where it […]
I’m on a bit of a sewing kick, and a food-related sewing kick at that, so when I thought of today’s challenge to mass-produce something, I quickly settled on making some simple placemats. I basically used the reversible placemat pattern from Rae Gun Ramblings, but it’s such a simple project you don’t really need a […]
I have wanted to make reusable fabric snack bags for a long time now, but I always hesitated to do so because a lot of patterns call for oil cloth or PUL (the sort of fabric the outside of cloth diapers is made out of) for the inside, which makes them waterproof but is also […]
If you’re hesitant to use your own words to write poetry, or you aren’t sure what to say or how to get started, blackout poetry is a fun way to write poetry with other people’s words. What is Blackout Poetry? I first saw these on Austin Kleon’s blog, but lots of other people do them, […]
Now that we’ve spent a few days enjoying poetry, let’s share some of it with the world through a poetry bombing, which is just a way of saying leaving poems in public places. I was going to do this at my daughter’s school, but then I decided to do it at the public library instead. […]
One of my favorite poems is “Another Reason Why I Don’t Keep a Gun in the House” by Billy Collins. If you don’t know it, I’ll share a little here, but click the link and read the whole thing: The neighbors’ dog will not stop barking. He is barking the same high, rhythmic bark that he […]
Reading poetry is actually a great way to jumpstart creativity in your own brain. We’ve talked a little bit about reading poetry when we compiled our poetry books yesterday, but today’s challenge is a little more challenging: read a long poem. Why Read a Long Poem? Long poems can mean different things to different people, […]