In the few minutes I had to spare at Providence Open Market this past weekend I came across a tent I haven’t seen there before.
What caught my attention was the stuffed green bean {quite similar to Bartie the Pear pictured here} I was originally introduced to through twitter. My favorite handmade store in providence was showing off some new goodies one fine day, the cute as pie green bean with a face being one of those adorable pieces. Since then, I have been on the... → Read the rest of this article
Kim O'Brien
Kim O'Brien is a
metalsmith who isn't afraid to push the limits of function and color. When she doesn't have a torch or hammer in her hand she can be found buying handmade goods at craft fairs and local businesses, playing with her beloved dog or
blogging.
Allison Taylor’s story as a crafter begins in a familiar way: she first learned to crochet at her grandmother’s knee at the tender age of six.
Despite her grandmother’s considerable skill as a fiber artist, not to mention her infinite patience, crocheting didn’t quite stick with Allison that first time around. Six year olds aren’t famous for their attention spans, so it’s not really that surprising!
It wasn’t until... → Read the rest of this article
Valerie Williams
Valerie Williams is a designer and sewer who loves fabric, fashion, and handmade things. You can find her on
Twitter or
Facebook or read her musings on personal style and sewing at her blog,
insatiable need.
Rania Hassan is a well known Washington DC artist who has mastered three art forms at once. She is a graphic designer and illustrator, a painter, and a knitter, and she has found a way to integrate all three of her skills into her artwork, under the label goshdarnknit.
Her whimsical illustrations of big-eyed, somber girls and tangled, beautiful botanicals are individually hand printed on Moleskin notebooks in various sizes. She also prints her images on neoprene lunch... → Read the rest of this article
Valerie Williams
Valerie Williams is a designer and sewer who loves fabric, fashion, and handmade things. You can find her on
Twitter or
Facebook or read her musings on personal style and sewing at her blog,
insatiable need.
It’s fabulous farmers market season and these veggies look good enough to eat, if you could eat something so cute. You could, hover cuddle up to them, though, since they’re crocheted from wool. When Ohioja‘s creator Ylenia became unemployed she filled her free time in various corners of the web and discovered amigurumi and instantly fell in love. So much so that she rushed to the nearest bookshop and picked up a crochet guide so that she could get started... → Read the rest of this article
If you love yarn and making things with yarn, then your new favorite place is Fibre Space. A beautiful, full-service yarn shop in Old Town, Alexandria, Fibre Space is the brain child of Danielle Romanetti and the brick-and-mortar manifestation of her popular mobile knitting club, Knit-a-Gogo.
Danielle started Knit-a-Gogo in 2006, teaching knitting and hosting fibre-loving events at coffee shops and bakeries in the DC area. Two years later, her client list and faculty... → Read the rest of this article
Valerie Williams
Valerie Williams is a designer and sewer who loves fabric, fashion, and handmade things. You can find her on
Twitter or
Facebook or read her musings on personal style and sewing at her blog,
insatiable need.
