crafts

You may have noticed that when I discover I like making a certain item, I tend to make variations of that same item over and over again (for example, bird mobiles, handkerchiefs, totebags, iPhone covers). I eventually get tired of the item – or else run out of a particular fabric – and move on […]

This dishtowel’s more for show than for use – at least, that’s how my mom, the recipient of this dishtowel – will see it. Perhaps I should call it a tea towel. She can use it the one time per year when she serves tea to her neighbors, the Episcopalian priest and his wife. Actually,

One can really never have too many cloth cocktail napkins. Guests come over, use a napkin, put it down, can’t remember where they put their napkin, then take another one (which is the same reason one can never have too many drinking glasses). I made a few cocktail napkins using leftover Amy Butler fabric for

Scott finally bought an iPhone (he’s only been talking about getting one for three months) and has been carrying it around in an old drawstring sunglasses bag. I made him this bag (which happens to match the colors of his manbag). It has more room at the top to fit his headphones, and a pocket