Rough week. Watching democracy almost die makes me cranky. There was a clear choice between donning the pants of crazy, OR hunkering down and making stuff. I chose the latter.…
A jam packed and fun filled episode, featuring a shave horse, dressmaking, a really cool bag, the Novus Jacket, iteration, and One Hundred Acts of Sewing, with Sonya Phillip.
The Creative Habit: Learn it and Use it for Life, by Twyla Tharp Snagtights are fabulous, and available in the US, UK and Canada. And maybe other places too? Please…
This week we’re talking self care. Tell me about the ways you’re being kind to yourself. And the yarn that makes you happiest. A Prairie Home Companion Watch the Walmart’s…
Kicking off the first episode of Series 14, Mothers of Unvention, with conversations about the process of design, beginning with using constructive discontent to identify a problem, and the deep…
My quilt-in-progress, the collection of 1970’s pillowcases, and 6.5 inch squares is growing. If you like quilts and don’t yet know about the eye-candy that is r/quilting, get thee to…
We’re talking about space. Not space – the final frontier. The other space. The space we inhabit. The space where we store things. The space we’re allowed. The space in…
In this episode, Lively yarn is tamed, and Abattoir is no longer offal (see what I did there?) through the magic of indigo; knitting that is no fun, but still…
A quick hello, a few announcements, some catching up, and a general setting of the the stage for the fun to come. In this not-episode, I talked about the return…
I first discovered A Pattern Language in 1988, through an article in Metropolitan Home magazine about the building of Sala House, near San Francisco. The house was designed by the…
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I’m a serial maker of podcasts, and many things that are not podcasts. I love playing with yarn, fibre and cloth. I will never accept that furniture in my living room only goes two ways. Almost every night, I dream about houses.
