I had to abandon plans to paint roses on my satin wedding dress when the satin turned out to be rayon, not silk. Silk (protein fibers) …
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Review: Stephanie Laird’s Artistic Elements: Book 3 Fun Tricks for Your Photography (Book 3 of 3)
Same review as I wrote for Volume 2: Buy the set. If you have never done creative work in Photoshop Elements, you may get plenty of …
Review: Bogolanfini Mud Cloth
I found Bogolanfini Mud Cloth in the gift shop at the National Textile Museum in Washington, DC. It's really all pictures--150 pages of …
Engagement Socks
I carried a ball of Not in My Name sock yarn from Black Trillium Fibers to a motorcycle rally in Maggie Valley in June 2017. It was our …
Review: Jinny Beyer’s Color Confidence For Quilters (Paperback)
For anyone who works with "other people's" colors (that is, NOT painters and people who make their own colors). The book can help move …
Review: Building craft equipment: An illustrated manual (Hardcover)
Now that Craig's List is as ubiquitous as it is, some of the more involved equipment, in particular, floor looms, is as easy and inexpensive …
Review: Woodcut
Here's the trick: Read the other reviews that point out how Woodcut could have been better, and get the point that this is a small book of …
Review: A Life in Stitches: Knitting My Way through Love, Loss, and Laughter
Literate, knitter (OK, that's almost redundant), engaging. My own disclaimer: I think I've only ever met two knitting books I didn't …
Review: The Creative Process Illustrated: How Advertising’s Big Ideas Are Born
Full disclosure: I am not in modern advertising in any way professionally. I do spend a lot of time in the arena of …
Review: Newspaper Blackout
I recall deciding I hated poetry somewhere around freshman year of high school and have only very reluctantly ever read a poem all the way …