Category: Crafts

This October I got together with some friends to read through Macbeth, and used it as an excuse to try out book binding. I’ve been wanting to try book binding, and something like Macbeth, which is in the public domain, seemed like a great place to start. I downloaded the full text of the play… Continue reading Book Binding Part 1: Macbeth with Coptic Stitch

I was cleaning out my craft cabinet the other day and discovered eight unfinished wooden reindeer cutouts and a Santa. I didn’t have red and green paint, so I decided to decorate them with neon and glitter paint pens from a previous project. I painted the wooden cutouts gray and sprayed them with mod podge… Continue reading Neon Glitter Santa and Reindeer, or Always Test Colorfastness First

This is the story of a yarn I almost gave up on because I didn’t like knitting with it. I set it aside to donate to a local second-hand craft store, but every time I walked past it I was reminded of how much I liked the colors. So I decided to try again, with… Continue reading Not a Phase Crochet Shawl, Starring Mediocre Yarn

I finally finished embroidering the sun that Rapunzel draws in Tangled! I started working on it more than 2 years ago, and I repeatedly told my spouse that I would finish it “soon.” We even left space for it on the wall at our last apartment, but as you can probably guess, that space stayed… Continue reading Embroidered Sun Based on Rapunzel’s Drawings in Tangled