When I’m not sewing—or changing diapers or wiping snotty noses or cheering after Bo goes tinkie in the potty—I’m a journalist.
I quit my “real” job last August, just before Magpie was born so I could be home more with the girls. I still freelance, which keeps my proverbial foot in the proverbial door and is pretty stinkin’ fun most of the time.
The good folks at The Spokesman-Review, a newspaper where I used to work, indulge me by letting me write a craft column once a month. It’s a first-person, how-to type of thing, and I have no idea if anyone’s even reading it.
I named it The HomeMaker. Get it?
Here’s a roundup of photos from some of the past columns.
Fan gear, for those of us who think the typical college bookstore offerings are pretty cheesy ...
A trick-or-treat backpack with a design inspired by one of my favorite blogs, Kidding Around ...
A fabric story board collage (start a story in one square and see where the lines take you), following directions by Bill Kerr and Weeks Ringle in their book Modern Quilt Workshop (although they intended that the fabric be sewn together as a quilt, not Mod Podged to a piece of plywood) ...
Winter cookie cutter art, inspired by something I saw in the background of a picture in a West Elm catalog ...
And a great idea for a baby quilt, made by two local quilters here.
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