We Walk 4Water
Last year, Spencer West climbed Mount Kilimanjaro ...
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Crafter Q+A: Maxine Chan of Tulle Box Designs
Name: Maxine Chan Location: Vancouver, B.C. Title:...
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10 ways to set a fun-packed party picnic table for kids
The perfect party picnic table for kids Summer is ...
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Madeleines for Mother's Day
To celebrate Mother’s Day this year, go beyo...
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The Great Gatsby style inspiration
I’ll admit it, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s T...
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5 keys to clean teeth, plus win an electric toothbrush
**UPDATE: This contest is now closed. What’s...
Tina Anson Mine
Member since Jul 20, 2010
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Crafty organization: Cute washi tape ideas
Early January is one of my favourite times of year. No, seriously. I compulsively organize throughout the year (then change my mind and go back to chaos for a while), but New Year’s Day is a special treat. It’s when the whole year stretches out ahead of me, full of promise, with nothing marring all [...]
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Another crafty Christmas wishlist
Last Monday, Austen shared her list of the craft items she’d love to find under the Christmas tree. This week, it’s my turn. While I’d love to receive any of our crafty gift guide items wrapped in pretty paper, I thought I might go for broke and take the fantasy aspect of making a wishlist seriously. [...]
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Stash buster: 5 tiny hat ornaments for your Christmas tree
You know when you have a really good idea for a craft? I mean, a really, really good idea? Something you think is so brilliant you don’t tell anyone because you know that, someday, someone will want you to reveal it to the world? I have those all the time. Then I Google them and realize that approximately [...]
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Pincushion mania with the Vancouver Modern Quilt Guild
Turns out I’m not the only one besotted with pincushions. The Vancouver Modern Quilt Guild (VMQG) is taking part in a multi-guild swap that brings together quilters from all over North America and unites them in a single cause: to make and trade some of the loveliest pincushions in the world. Yesterday, I had a chance [...]
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Fall knitting: 5 toasty blankets to make
Fall is in full force around here. We raked up six bags of leaves last weekend (we don’t even have a tree in our yard!) and are heading to and from work in the dark now. Looks like it’s time to settle in for quiet nights and plenty of cosy knitting. Remember the scene in [...]
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Weekend reading
Welcome back, the hour we lost last spring! There’s something magical about receiving a free extra hour in the day. I know most people sleep in when the clocks turn back, but I’m planning to spend my extra hour tomorrow in the craft room. A couple of these projects might even make the To-Craft List. [...]
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5 last-minute Halloween crafts: costumes, decor and pumpkins, oh my!
I love Halloween, but it always sneaks up on me. I find myself buying candy at the drugstore the morning of, rushing home through insane traffic and scarfing down frozen lasagna just as the first wave of trick-or-treaters starts ringing the doorbell. If you’re like me, you may think it’s too late to have a [...]
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Book review: Japanese Quilting Piece by Piece
Japan has some legendary quilters and one of the most renowned quilt shows in the world: the Tokyo International Great Quilt Festival. So it’s no wonder needle arts junkies get excited when a new Japanese quilting book hits the shelves. Japanese Quilting Piece by Piece by Yoko Saito (Interweave, 2012, softcover, $26.95) recently hit my [...]
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Colour work for dark fall nights
Four years ago, when I was learning to knit, someone told me, “You’ll find you’re either a colour person or a texture person.” She theorized that people usually discovered a preference for one early on and – despite forays into the other – generally stuck with it. If you were a colour person, you’d be [...]
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Dying to dye more yarn
A couple of weeks ago, Austen and I zipped across town after work for a yarn dyeing class at The Workroom. I’d been hoarding some naked fingering weight and a bunch of dye pots at home, waiting till I was ready to face them. And a live tutorial sounded like just the thing to get [...]
