Every other week, CRAFT’s awesome interns tell about the projects they’re building in the Craft: Labs, the trouble they’ve gotten into, and what they’ll make next. By Meara O’Reilly, projects intern When I started interning at CRAFT magazine, my skills and interests tended more toward soldering and sawing than knitting and sewing — but I […]
My mom, Bette Stern, recently went on a trip to Scotland. She and my dad had plans to stop at the Isle of Skye, where some crafters had plans to cover the bridge in knitted panels. We posted it here on Craftzine, so my mom made a panel. She writes: It started with this post […]
atherine Shaughnessy is one of my favorite people on the craft scene. She runs the online shop Wool & Hoop, which is one of the main suppliers online for crewelwork kits and fine supplies. She is also the author of The New Crewel. A few years ago, she came from Chicago to the very small Texas town of Marfa (population 2,000) where she now has ten chickens and two kids, and she recently opened a little craft store on the town square. Katherine is a trained artist with an interesting story and I really wanted her to tell it in her own words.
Grain Edit features a nice interview with Melissa and JW Buchanan of The Little Friends Printmaking. It’s a great look into how the couple met, set up shop and work together every day. One of my favorite parts of the interview is an example of the process the pair goes through when designing a poster. […]
I love bright colors, and have recently been very inspired by the trends in variegated yarns. This combo of hot pink, lime green, orange and charcoal grey really makes me happy. The yarn is from my local shop, Castaways, and the swatch was knit by Madeline, age 8.
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about small-apartment kitchen solutions, and this floor-to-ceiling pot rack caught my eye. With a few inexpensive hardware store items, you can make this vertical pot rack like Mary. Read more about it at The Kitchn.
The Tennessee Sampler Survey is a project founded to “document and preserve Tennessee’s needlework heritage.” For many years, textile scholars assumed that sampler making was not practiced in the South. Our research has shown that Tennessee girls made samplers from the era of settlement through the end of the 19th century. Their collection of samplers […]
