'Crafting' Category
The Walrus and the Embroiderer
After the last Walrus post, Anna pointed out that there’s far more behind the retiring-designer situation than pattern freebies on the Internet. Yes, ma’am, there sure is. How much shall we discuss? Becca asked what we can do. Well, here’s one thing. There’s been political buzz about Net Neutrality for some time. The Internet currently [...]
Weekend Site Seeing
Check this out! Someone else is inspired by reading and stitching, specifically, poetry and embroidery. I would love to do this, but I’m spread pretty thinly just now. I even have multiple poems and ideas I could pursue. It has nothing to do with the prize; these are things I’ve wanted to do for a [...]
The Craft Whisperer
If this idea catches on (what’s the point of dreaming small?), that will be the name of my new blog or, what the heck, multi-million dollar business: The Craft Whisperer. Until then, maybe we’ll have Fix-It Fridays or something here. Or on the soon-to-exist Funk & Weber World blog. Somewhere. History: I’ve long wanted to [...]
Reading Roundup
Consumer powers…unite! Note: I mention the title of this book three times. Each time, I link to a different review of it. The last link is to NPR and includes an excerpt of the book. I recently read Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture, by Ellen Ruppel Shell. It’s a book I continue to [...]
Embroidered Bracelet Online Class
Treat yourself to a summer staycation! Pour yourself a glass of iced tea, set up a lawn chair under a tree or head to the pool, and stitch a fully-customized bracelet with me. This project is wonderfully portable. The Embroider Me! Bracelet Basics and Beyond online class is back, July 19 – 25. This is [...]
Creating Creatives, Part 8
Literacy and Stitching by Linda Stanek What is literacy, and how does stitching tie in? Literacy is often thought of as being the ability to read and write. It’s also the ability to comprehend what you have read. As all of Bloom’s taxonomy is practiced in the process of stitching, just as it is used [...]
Bookmark Tips
The Needle and Thread: Stitching for Literacy 2010 Bookmark Challenge officially ends on May 6 so that participants have time to get them to libraries and schools for Children’s Book Week (CBW). Tip 1: Note, however, that not all collected bookmarks are used for CBW events. Some participants will continue to collect bookmarks for end-of-the-school-year [...]
Extreme Stitcher
A bookmark stitched by Stephanie, from Nouveau Encore Designs. Pattern by Textile Heritage. Welcome to our Extreme Reader / Extreme Stitcher series where we profile people willing to go to great lengths to read and/or stitch. Meet Lauren as she tells us her story. Twenty or so years ago, we moved to Florida from New [...]
Bookmark Tips
I’m not finished with last week’s window bookmarks, so nothing to share on that front…yet! The card stock theme continues, though, with a tip from Gayle at Accents, Inc. in Metairie, LA (read: New Orleans). Gayle has participated in the Stitching for Literacy Bookmark Challenge since Day One. She also pitches in behind-the-scenes, tirelessly helping, [...]
Creating Creatives, Part 6
At the Peak of Things by Linda Stanek The highest level of Bloom’s Taxonomy is Evaluation. Here, students appraise, compare, defend (yes, defend) and evaluate their work. But it doesn’t stop there. Creatives are forever cycling back through the upper echelons of the model—back to Analysis—how could it be different? How could it be better? [...]
