This week’s CRAFT Pattern Podcast is a special treat! It’s a beautiful reversible cable-knit scarf by Becky Stern’s mom, Bette. Doesn’t Becky look adorable and cozy in her scarf that her mom made her for Christmas? Now you can cozy up yourself in this scarf that combines ribbing and cables to make it warm and […]
By Diane Gilleland If you have a lot of stuff, and you want a custom-sized, custom-crafted way to store it, look no further than plastic canvas. Here, I’ll show you how to build a simple lidded box, and give it your own unique spin.
My teenage son recently demanded that he be taken to the French restaurant down the street because everyone in the family and *all* of his friends had eaten there … everyone we knew, in fact, except him. He wanted an authentic French meal, whatever that means, but he didn’t go for the mussels and pommes […]
Recycle an old sweater into toasty wool long johns. By Nikol Lohr Cotton thermals and space age synthetic long underwear are all well and good, but nothing kills the winter chills like a pair of old fashioned, toasty wool long johns. Trouble is, despite improvements in softness well known to knitters, wool still has a […]
Back in CRAFT Volume 09, columnist Wendy Tremayne introduced us to the creative mind of sustainability and reuse artist Flo McGarrell. The genius of McGarrell spanned from crafting greenhouses from 5-gallon water bottles (pictured above) to making inflatable rooms to creating his signature “agrisculpture” living art to writing how-tos on growing organic food. McGarrell also […]
Make a scrubbie from found materials.
By Jessica Wilson I’ve been using skirt and pants hangers to hold works in progress (WIP) for a half-dozen or so years. Because I lack pretty wall space, the projects that hang from the hangers generally end up in the closet where they are quickly forgotten. It’s that whole out of sight, out of mind […]
