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Crafting for a craft

I mentioned the wife’s participation in Yarn School a few posts back. Since then she’s been spending a lot of time spinning yarn. She takes pride in her yarn for the yarn’s sake, without necessarily...

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Felted fruit sculpture

Rhonda McClure's felted sculpture of a watermelon with a spigot. To the right is my favorite piece from the Nebraska State Fair (first time I’ve been in 13 years), which wasn’t even entered in the fine...

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Christmas IV

A handmade Christmas Our tree, exponentially smaller than last year’s beautiful giantess, boasted handmade ornaments solely this year. Some we made, some our grandparents made, some from our childhood,...

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Christmas IX

Quilt with pansies, hand-stitched Every year we lived in Siloam Springs Allen Canning would plant pansies in the beds outside of their corporate offices along Main Street. They would do this in...

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Christmas XI

Crocheted icicle ornament with wool The icicle to the right is a handmade ornament by my wife, who is getting deeper and deeper into her fiber arts. She finally has a drum carder for prepping fibers to...

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News with stir sticks

Last Fall, after work painting homes dried up, the wife and I decided we’d try to make a go of it freelancing — in addition to our continuing service with M-DAT — unless a job opportunity came up that...

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Craft as connection between generations

Fiber artist Betsy Timmer rightly observes that “There’s a growing value on things that are handmade . . . and it’s almost a reaction everything being so mass produced.” She’s interviewed in this...

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Thriving arts and crafts in [very] rural places

Yesterday my wife and I drove two hours north to the very small town of Clearwater, Nebraska. One of the seven or so yarn stores in the state happens to be in this community of 300+. We had a great...

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Christmas VIII

Next year we’ll need a new Filed under: Christmas, Fiber

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Recent Playfulness: Mighty ugly felt

I love working three-dimensionally; I’ve prefered it to drawing or painting for the past 10 years plus. However, when it comes to portraying certain aspects of one of my few favorite subjects, storms...

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