The overwhelmingness of creativity
Every year I start thinking about Christmas gifts in June. Every year I SWEAR that I will start making them in June. And this year I did! I did. I made one small scarf. But summer is just so, well,...
View ArticleOn actual crafting (as opposed to planning to craft)
You’ve all seen it: “Stop pinning; start making things.” It’s good advice. And many of you probably do handmade holidays like we do. So there’s a persistent sense of always needing to be making...
View ArticleSmall achievements, small regrets
I’m trying to keep things small these days. So those ambitious and beautiful patchwork velvet scarves recycled from old clothes — well, those haven’t been happening, except in my head. The PLANS have...
View ArticleOn the making of goodness.
It sounds rather grandiose, now that I write it down, but I’ve been trying lately to imagine how it is that we make space for making goodness. For making good things, for allowing basic goodness to...
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