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To be perfectly clear here I am Wendy’s husband Matt. I sent this email to Wendy and asked her to post it on her blog. A few days ago Wendy made a comment to me. To be honest it pissed me off at first. The more I thought about it the more I realized what [...]

One of my husband’s (to be former husband) big complaints about my writing– whether article, blog post, email conversation, forum post or text message (yes, he read my text messages, and yes, it was a problem) was that he didn’t feel that I mentioned him enough, or at all. There’s a good reason he’s not [...]

Today was a great day. We gathered at Come Yarn Over for our first annual yarn bombing event where we defaced re-faced the spaces with wonderful yarn subversion. I was doing a tree cozy, but as there were no trees available I made do with a stop sign. Happy Birthday Deb!  

I designed these babies a while back after finding a nice big remnant of Berber fleece fabric at a thrift store. It screamed “Sheep!” at me, and for once I listened. The legs and face are plain black poplin and the ears are craft felt. I put a few in my booth over at Keeper’s Corner but Deb also [...]

Here’s another yard sale booty inspired project. Red-heel socks, and a bag full of random eyes. I particularly liked the more animal looking yellow eye, it reminded me of something. Yeah, that’s it. 28 Days Later starts with an infected monkey. 28 Weeks later heterochromia iridum figures heavily. Got it. Now add this: Suddenly the [...]

In the past I’ve gone on about my mother’s hoarding collecting of craft supplies (and more recently Beanie Babies, but I’m going to focus on crafts right now.) One of my favorite things to do was to sneak into the boxes she kept stashed in my closet and think about all the cool things I [...]

As I was experiencing a distinct lack of mohair, Theresa at Yarn Over came through for me with a big bag of the stuff. After spending three days of my life gluing nylon curls on this doll (in an attempt to make-do) and producing what can only be called a ginger-fro, I was only more [...]

Without cutting sew the shoulder and side seams using very small stitches. Then I cut away the excess fabric, making sure to leave enough to turn the raw edges of the neck and arm holes down for finishing. I finger press or carefully iron the seams open, trying not to cause more fraying at the [...]

Cleaning up patterns the first time around can be a little intimidating, it really is just a matter of going through the right steps with the right tools. The muslin pieces are so small and floppy they need to be stiffened up in order to facilitate tracing. Fusible interfacing works, so does buckram and fabric [...]

I usually find hard plastic travel dolls for $3-5 a piece, up to $10 for the 10 inch tall ones. I’ve yet to find one that is horribly expensive or rare but still I look for ones with messed up hair and clothes so I don’t feel guilty about ruining an original in good condition. [...]