Flora Alchemy

By: Stephen Orr

The lovely and talented Johanna Burke recently designed and constructed this fantastic golden jungle of intricately cut paper for a client who wants to install it as a display in his luxury goods store in Korea. These pictures show the three giant panels in progress in her Dumbo studio. more...

Sculptural Crochet Primer

By: Wunderkammer

Crochet is usually relegated to the domain of hats, scarves, and potscrubbers-frankly, a damn shame given its enormous sculptural potential. The primary quality that recommends crochet as three dimensional medium is the fact that crochet stitches are not unlike pixels - discrete units that combine to facet the surface of a form. more...

On the street: She is Legion

By: Scott

Legion of Superheroes that is. A pal of mine saw this lady on the train. more...

Review: Knitting for Good!

By: Riva

I don't know how to knit. In eight grade, my friend's mom cast on some knitting for me, showed me a basic stitch (knit or purl I can't recall), and away I went...for about a dozen rows. more...

The Envelope Please

By: Scott

Kiera Coffee is a writer and creator of ideas. I have been in her presence as she effortlessly rattled off 5 stunning magazine story ideas. more...

Etsy: Optimism is Contagious

By: Rachel Tomlinson

It used to be that if you wanted to buy something handmade, there was no better place to look than an urban Saturday Market or a mothball-scented church basement. But as new generations infiltrated the crafts industry, bringing hipster influences to traditional arts like knitting, it seemed only natural that the new craft crowd would move online. more...

The Seed Project

By: Abigail

The Seed Project is an experiment in "seed as potential" or "form follows growth". Simple packets of wheatgrass seeds were distributed to artists and cultivars worldwide as a means to test how each individual would craft a dialogue with the same organic building blocks, though in varying growing conditions and regions globally. more...

Ravelry: A Web Community and a Cult

By: Marie Rounsavell

The last couple of years has seen a huge increase in the number of social networking sites available. As with any evolution, the trend has been toward specifics and newer sites cater more and more to niches. more...

Quilting Under Pressure

By: Extreme Craft

Shawn Quinlan knows the value of a good story. By day, he is a video editor at a television station, with all of the attendant stress that comes with the job. more...

Eye Candy

By: Riva

Deborah Margo is a Canadian artist whose show, Castings, just finished. I came upon these partially dissolved candies in a room of the gallery where Deborah and her daughter had arranged them all over the floor. more...