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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How a creative community attracts savvy shoppers and diners
A creative community bands together to offer uniqu...
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Vietnamese Iced Coffee
If you’re anything like me, no blissful, hot...
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Guest post: Chic and easy DIY nail art
Sarah Feldman is a recent graduate of McGill Unive...
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5 keys to clean teeth, plus win an electric toothbrush
**UPDATE: This contest is now closed. What’s...
Reviews
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Field trip! A visit to Stitch
Hi friends, Earlier this week, Tina, Lisa and I had a chance to take a little field trip. Get three craft bloggers together outside of the city, and you can probably guess what happens next: we Google-map directions to the closest craft store. This time, we ended up at Stitch, a lovely little shop in [...]
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Guest post: the great Western Canadian yarn crawl, part 3
Hi friends, My friend Alli recently finished a whirlwind vacation in western Canada. She said that the highlight was having the opportunity to meet Felicia Lo of SweetGeorgia Yarns fame and check out the studio where she creates her sumptuous colour palettes. Enjoy! First thing in the morning the day after my arrival in Vancouver [...]
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Book review: The Rhythm of Family
Hi friends, Today I’m happy to welcome my friend Sherrie. She’s a teacher, a mother of two small boys, a soap-maker extraordinaire and an all-around dynamo who lives in Yarmouth, N.S. You can read about her adventures in crafting, cooking and parenting at Twenty-Two Pleasant, but today she’s here to review Amanda Soule’s latest offering. [...]
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Guest post: the great Western Canadian yarn crawl, part 2
Hi friends, My friend Alli rarely meets a yarn store that she doesn’t like. On her recent trip out west, she managed to visit a record five yarn shops, one weaving studio and one indie dyer’s studio – in just over 10 days. Here’s part two (read part one here). Enjoy! Kelowna, British Columbia Store: [...]
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Guest post: the great Western Canadian yarn crawl, part 1
Hi friends, My friend Alli rarely meets a yarn store that she doesn’t like. On her recent trip out west, she managed to visit a record five yarn shops, one weaving studio and one indie dyer’s studio – in just over 10 days. She’ll be joining us over the next couple weeks to tell us [...]
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Tina Fey’s Rules for Improv and Life as a Craft Editor
Hi friends, Have you read Tina Fey’s memoir, Bossypants, yet? It’s been out since early April, but it wasn’t until a few weeks ago that I finally picked it up. I don’t know why I waited: I read the book cover-to-cover in one sitting. It’s good. Really good. I think Tina Fey is smart and [...]
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Weekly Giveaway: Growing Up Sew Liberated
Hello again, This week’s giveaway is another sewing book: Meg McElwee‘s Growing Up Sew Liberated. You might be familiar with her blog, Sew Liberated, and her first book, Sew Liberated: 20 Stylish Projects for the Modern Sewist. Meg’s new book all about kids – simple sewing projects for babies, toddlers and older kids to wear [...]
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Weekly Giveaway: The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Sewing
Hi friends, Phew! I’ve been busy all afternoon assisting at the photo shoot for a couple of upcoming craft stories, and I’m pooped! (Not sure why – our wonderful art director and photographer did all the hard work. All I had to do was stand back and say, “That’s pretty!”) Anyway, better late than never, [...]
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A Great New Sock Knitting Book by Ann Budd
Hi friends, Just the other day I was chatting with Glenna about her recommendations for books about sock knitting – in particular, books that would give me an easy outline of (and the rationale behind) the various methods of working a sock heel. It might have had something to do with the fact that knitting [...]
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Keeping a Sketchbook Is for Everyone – A Professional Artist Shows You How
Hi friends, I was delighted to get home from work on Monday night and discover that my copy of Painted Pages: Fueling Creativity With Sketchbooks and Mixed Media, by Sarah Ahearn Bellemare, had arrived. I ripped the package open and sat down and read it cover-to-cover (dinner? who needs dinner?) that night. I met Sarah [...]
