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Picture Winter + other photo projects

So today was the end of Picture Winter, and like I seem to say every time I finish a month-long project like this, it was just the right length.  I enjoyed my 31 days of prompt-following, but now I am ready to be done.  I’ve signed up to take Picture Spring as a self-paced class […]

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Ambition

My new ambitious project: this dress + this wrap, using the materials above.  By mid-February. The wrap involves miles and miles of stockinette, so I may die of boredom before it’s finished.  The dress, on the other hand, may prove to be complicated enough that I give up before I even begin it. Does it […]

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Sanded, buffed, and pooped.

Whew.  Another great clayathon under my belt.  I really have to make sure that I pull my clay supplies out of hibernation more often this year.  In 2010 there were only four times I did any major claywork.  I think the first step is to make my supplies much more accessible.  Setting up and tearing […]

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Weave Cane

I’m checking in from the Clayathon.  I made it here in one piece yesterday afternoon, and after about an hour of dithering about, wondering what I should make first, I dove into shawl pins, buttons, and barrettes in two patterns: Grayscale Weave and Swamp Weave.  (Those are the barrettes up there.  The green one got […]

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Snow day!

It may surprise you to hear that I don’t have a history of doing crafty projects with my kids all of the time.  My kids are plenty creative, but they’ve always preferred to do their making on their own terms.  They’re not much for planned projects.  That’s why, when I said, “hey, do you guys […]

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