Holding myself together with yarn, fabric, and hope.
I have a love-hate relationship with change. Change can be so amazingly stressful. The upheaval, the uncertainty, the feeling of instability as the ground shifts beneath your feet, when you don’t know what your life ...
The last few years have been the first time in my life where I’ve had anything resembling disposable income. Before that, I was utterly drowning in student loans that I ultimately defaulted on and had ...
I finally got over the flu, and had a chance to work more on my enormous versions of the Companion Carpet Bag. It’s turned out even larger than I thought it was going to be. ...
I still remember learning to sew from my mother when she was young. It was an uphill battle – not because I am inept, but because I am spectacularly lazy, and I was only ever ...
Today, I went to the Women’s March in Albany, one year after attending the march in DC. Obviously the crowd wasn’t as big, but there were good speakers, representing a broad spectrum of the population, ...
As I start to try to assemble my plan to turn bags into money for charity, inevitably, the issue of pricing comes up. And now that I’ve been sharing pictures of my bags on social ...
I finished cutting out and punching the stitching holes for my Ladie’s Purse from 46 Leatherwork Projects. I’m learning a few things about working with leather… It’s frustratingly stretchy and smooshy, which makes it hard ...
It’s been a long time since I posted, but a lot has happened in the last (almost) year. We’d already moved prior to my last post, but I can’t be the only one who takes ...
So, for months I’ve been needing to write here, not out of any sense of duty, but because there’s been so much stress in my life. As it happens, I didn’t have time to write ...
I managed to finish the second Pussy Hat on the way down to the march. I had to do some of it totally blind, but it still turned out ok. I should go back a ...
