Artist Jacob Magraw created a stunningly beautiful and intricate embroidered version of the famous “T” logo of the New York Times. My aunt Linnea does beautiful quilt squares, as does my wife Rachell. The layers of intention that can gather in such a slow process appeal to me. I’m in awe! I wish I could […]
Dorie Millerson takes three-demensional sewing to another level with her stitched bridge. Suspended between the floor, ceiling, and walls this is extreme-crafting and beautiful work if I’ve ever seen it.
You know how you’ve been looking for a map with all of the best places in the world to be an artist marked on it? And remember how you wanted it to be knitted by hand? Well look no further because Bonnie Kate Wolf has knitted just such a map. I am hand knitting a […]
Lauren Steeper (Sheffield, UK) has a cross-stitch game, Lottery Words, and I want to play! It is just the sort of highly ordered and yet completely unnecessary ritual that I love. And it combines crafting and words? So awesome! To start, she cut every word out of the dictionary and threw them in a jar. […]
Textile artist Ferret (Harrow, UK) made this impressive quilt, “Bad Rain,” inspired by an illustrated spread in the graphic novel Cancertown. She then brought the quilt to a comic show, and scored a photo with the graphic novel’s artist, Stephen Downey, and the author, Cy Dethan (below). Unfortunately the 629 pixel width of this blog […]
This July, London will host the 2012 Summer Olympics, and English knitter and designer Laura Long has created a book to help crafters celebrate. Olympknits is a book of 10 knitted athlete designs (and one horse!) representing popular Olympic sports like swimming, fencing, cycling and gymnastics. When I saw this video for the book, one […]
My little folding bike is hanging out on the landing, just waiting for me to get around to her regular springtime cleaning and maintenance. While I’m getting her tuned up for the season, maybe I’ll also make her a cute new ruffled bicycle basket with this tutorial that Christie from A Lemon Squeezy Home shared […]
