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Hello there! I'm Diane and I have two grand passions: making crafts and making media. That's what I write about here, and sometimes, I get all thoughtful about internet culture and creative small businesses. Thanks for stopping by! Would you like some tea?   
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 I’m excited to report that the quilt I’m making for the release of our new book has reached the quilting stage! I’ve never undertaken a hand-quilting project this large, so I disobeyed the conventional rules and started at the outer edges, in hopes of hiding my worst wonk there while I get comfortable with the … Read On! There’s More!  Christina’s and my new book together comes out in late summer/early fall, so I thought I’d better get my patootie started on a new project over the weekend – I’m making one of the quilts from the book! Since I know Pushkin will be spending a lot of time laying upon this thing, and he … Read On! There’s More!  Today, Tara and I are talking with Melissa Gruntkosky, who runs a letterpress and design business called Pressbound. She used our new workbook, Crafting an Effective Blog, to re-tool her blog so it promotes her product line and establishes her as an expert in her field. We’re talking with her about what she learned … Read On! There’s More! Tara and I are so excited to be launching the digital workbook version of our ever-popular online class, Crafting an Effective Blog! …And we thought it would be fun to celebrate this launch by hosting three LIVE Google Hangout broadcasts. In each one, we’ll be working with a different crafty small business owner, looking at … Read On! There’s More!  We haven’t talked about Kanzashi in a while, so I thought I’d share some pretty things that have been showing up in the Kanzashi in Bloom Flickr pool. I always love seeing people take the basic process in my book and add their own tweaks. …Like up above there. Deborah Kaye made some tiny Round … Read On! There’s More!  We interrupt this long blogging hiatus to bring you three pieces of important news: First, my friends, as of this morning, the book is turned in! Figh fives all around. Christina and I have worked really hard, and I wish you could see what we’ve created right freaking now. But of course, our baby still … Read On! There’s More!  So, today is the day my first book, Kanzashi In Bloom, comes out in digital editions. And I’ve been burning with curiosity about how this book (which is very image-heavy and dependent on a specific layout) would translate. Talk about giving candy to a digital-publishing nerd! We talk about this all the time in my … Read On! There’s More!  …So, Christina and I are hard at work on our book. We’re finalizing our chapter on basic tips and techniques. And this got us thinking about all the craft books on our respective shelves, and all the “basics” chapters in them, and how often they seem to cover a lot of the same ground. So, … Read On! There’s More!  Retro Flowers design and photo by Christina Lane, used with permission. Yay! The time has finally come for me to stop tweeting cryptically and share some awesome news. I’m working on a new book! It comes out from Potter Craft next year. And it’s a collaboration, too! I’m so excited to be working with Christina Lane … Read On! There’s More!  These, my friends, are brand-spanking-new Kanzashi Makers from Clover! They aren’t even in craft stores yet – they’re in the process of launching right now! And lucky me, I get to accompany the Clover team to Spring Quilt Market in Salt Lake City this weekend. I’ll be demonstrating these bad boys throughout the show. If you’ve … Read On! There’s More! |
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