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From the monthly archives:

May 2008

TGI Market Day

May 31, 2008

I do love the weekly ritual of market season. It was a quick trip today, because I’m teaching a library class this afternoon. But there were so many pretties, including these near-to-bursting peony buds.

Carrots and sweet Walla Walla onions were all over the place this week. I got some carrots to roast, which is something [...]

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CRAFT Party on Sunday: The Lineup Looks Great!

May 28, 2008

Things are really coming together for this Sunday’s CRAFT 07 Release Party at Twisted! Locals, we’d love to see you between 12 and 3, to partake of all these fun things:

- A free project table: make your own Cute as a Button Bracelet! This project is from Bead Simple, and excerpted in the new issue [...]

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Deck Makeover Part 2: Planties

May 26, 2008

Progress on our deck makeover has been slow, mostly because it rains every single freakin’ day right now in Portland. But we have made some small upgrades. That’s our lettuce box, almost ready to start harvesting. Don’t you love those two mushroom stakes? They’re a gift from my mom.

Some bits of color in their infancy. [...]

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A Fascinating Fail

May 25, 2008

My 10 year-old nephew is coming to visit in a couple weeks, so I’ve been looking for good kid-projects to do with him. Something tells me he won’t want to learn to spool-knit.

Anyway, Rosie’s book got me thinking about making a salt crystal garden, but then I wanted to go that one better. Why [...]

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Market Day

May 24, 2008

This is the Hillsboro Farmer’s Market, where K. and I tried to score local produce again today. Still no luck there – oh, except for these:

. . . Which are just about my favorite thing in the world today. I hate cooked peas, but I could eat them raw, pods and all, all the livelong [...]

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Insert beady-eyed pun here…

May 23, 2008

I’m such a fan of hybrid crafts – combining one kind of making with another to get something new. So I was excited to see this bead quilling on the cover of the June Bead & Button.

Are you familiar with quilling? It’s an old craft where you twirl thin strips of paper around a needle [...]

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Waxing Enthusiastic (ACK, what a bad headline!)

May 22, 2008

Here’s another favorite from my vintage stash. Whatever you may think of the decorative value of these candles, you gotta respect the sheer technical skill of author Beverly Ferguson. (This one’s Copyright 1966 by Craft Course Publishers, Inc. ACK! It’s as old as me!)

So, check this out: first, you melt a thin sheet of wax [...]

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Portland’s CRAFT 07 Release Party – Coming Soon!

May 20, 2008

That’s right, locals! P-Town is hosting another fabulous release party for CRAFT’s latest issue. We’ll be gathering at Twisted on Sunday, June 1st, from 12-3. If you missed the last one, well, you missed a good time. We’d love to see you at this one.
We’ll have an awesome hands-on craft table, where you can make [...]

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How to Make a Cool Button Pendant

May 19, 2008

Here’s what we made at Church of Craft yesterday: Button Pendants. They use good old plastic canvas as their base, which means they can easily be converted to pins.

Speaking of which, Susan has two great button projects in Bead Simple that using those plastic canvas rounds. (That’s Page 147 and 213, for you book [...]

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Ribbon Craft! Smashing, Baby!

May 18, 2008

A little nonserious crafty fun for your Sunday. This little beauty is Copyright 1973 by Harold Mangelson and Sons. The author is Jo Gilroy, who owned a craft shop in East Peoria, IL.

Just to give you a little scope here. . . this ribbon crafting involves cutting short sections from wide acetate ribbon, and [...]

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This week’s trip to the market

May 17, 2008

This is the Beaverton Farmer’s Market – or at least, the very corner of it (it’s huge). K. and I usually go to the smaller Hillsboro Market, but it takes a lot longer for the fresh produce to start arriving there. Thanks to Sally’s post earlier this week, I learned that veggies could be had [...]

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Plastic Bottle Fun? Sign Me Up!

May 16, 2008

Man, it’s been a week! Let’s have a little Friday Nonserious Crafting Time. I dug this book out of my stash in honor of all the plastic bottles K. and I have been hoarding this week for our deck irrigation. This is a Hazel Pearson book, copyright 1965.

I love this book for its sheer exuberance [...]

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Review: Lotta Prints

May 14, 2008

I’m light on the posts this week – sorry. I’m in one of those work-vortex situations. But yesterday, on the train to a teaching gig, I did get to read Lotta Prints – and it’s fantastic.

I’ve always had this idea that printing on fabric would be too hard to attempt. But with this book, Lotta [...]

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Now I can take over the world, mwahahahahahahaha!

May 12, 2008

Cathy is fast becoming my guru. Replenishing her supply of swistraw recently, she came into a motherlode of vintage plastic canvas shapes. And she let me have first dibs.
Can you imagine my squeal of geekly delight when I pulled these flower forms out of the envelope? (Bridget – maybe these were how your bag was [...]

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A little time travel…

May 12, 2008

Mom just sent me these pics, and I know this is no time to think about Christmas, but I just had to share!

This is a gingerbread village we built together when I was in college – it was, in fact, our last gingerbread project. Massive undertaking – I think this whole thing is about four [...]

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Deck Makeover: Part 1

May 10, 2008

This monstrosity is my deck. It’s the only thing about our current apartment I don’t like so well. It’s uncovered, so there’s always debris raining down from the sky. And there’s no water source out there, so we have to haul water from the kitchen. Not to mention, I can’t seem to find the right [...]

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I like a dessert that knows how to bend.

May 9, 2008

Are you ready for Mother’s Day this weekend? We’ve already celebrated here – in combo with my Mom’s birthday, which was Tuesday.

I was looking for a good celebratory dessert option – which is a challenge for this celebration given that it included sugar-eaters and non-sugar-eaters. But I found this great, highly-flexible recipe, and thought I’d [...]

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Fabulous Fun with Fake Fur!

May 8, 2008

My friend Bridget gave me these great black-and-white instruction sheets from the 70’s recently. They show how to make things with “Fake Fur.” Oh, there is so much to love about them. Starting with their proud use of the term “Fake Fur.”
That wreath is made by taking a lot of 3″ circles of that Fake [...]

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Trip down Patchwork Memory Lane

May 5, 2008

Last week, I read Hanna’s post about hand-sewing being her new go-to craft for soothing, repetitive time. She made some fantastic paper-pieced patchwork balls (follow that link and see her photo.)

All this got me thinking about a craft book I had as a kid. It involved toys made with paper-piecing. But I couldn’t recall the [...]

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Two Plus Two Equals . . . ?

May 3, 2008

A funny tale of my overloaded brain . . . .

Ryan has decided to take her successful Etsy business in new directions, so she had a sale on her wonderful pendants. So I ordered two right away. (Aren’t they gorgeous?)

In the package with them, I found this intriguing stack of little boxes.

I opened the first [...]

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Beads and Buttons

May 2, 2008

Okay, beads first: I wanted to let you know that Susan has been adding how-tos to her Bead Simple website. You can see two video tutorials there – one for making a Solo Earring, and the other for making the necklace from the cover of the Bead Simple book.

While you’re there, you can also download [...]

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Good Things at the Spring Artisans Fair

May 1, 2008

Well, dang – I went to the Handmade NW Spring Artisans Fair this morning, and got so involved in buying and chatting, I forgot to take more pictures. So this one isn’t so great – sorry. All those crowds you see? There are excellent vendors behind them.

K. and I acquired a number of charming [...]

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Review: Sew Somerset Magazine

May 1, 2008

Okay, then – let’s get right to that eye candy!

I had a great time reading Sew Somerset, which combines sewing with other media. I fixated on a whole lot of ideas, so I’m going to share just a few with you:

. . . Like these jewelry pieces by Yvonne Montano. Those black and white photos [...]

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