MAKING STUFF
and writing about it
A record of the making and the learning along the way: process, material, and the social side of hand-making.
Mar 22, 2025
Letting go and getting on it
Our job as artists is to imagine different futures
Jan 10, 2025
Beyond a cozy retreat
Handmade quilts of found fabrics layer up multiple meanings
Jan 4, 2025
Time to find focus
Depicting a distracted mind might not be helping
Dec 14, 2024
‘The unknown’ is a monster
I'm betting its bite will be worse than its bark
Nov 25, 2024
Tips for tired women
From rolling your eyes to sinking in sawdust Like a dream it was: A half-a-million-strong pink procession on Washington, a sea of singing, shouting, laughing people, surging forward in the shared...
Nov 23, 2024
When going back is good
Past failures are invaluable teaching tools This is my picking-up-the-pieces post, which is literally what I’m doing these days (and late nights). With the outlook looking very dark indeed I...
Nov 20, 2024
On radical self-care
Making ourselves whole through making First there is shock. I saw it in a coffee shop in a small US city the morning Trump was elected — again. The place was full but hushed. “Are you...
Nov 4, 2024
An iron will is needed now
Working out those wrinkles is so satisfyingIf you’re uselessly wringing your hands right about now, pump some iron. Hear me out: Ironing is useful , which, in the few days left before the US...
Nov 3, 2024
Dancing on the edge
This craftiest time of year is laced with pain When you’ve recently lost a loved one, certain annual occasions are rough: Christmas, birthdays, anniversaries. For me, it’s Halloween. That’s...
