Jan 14
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.

I love the William Morris fabrics, and I have dozens of them in different colors, all untouched. I owe myself a point for cutting into TWO of them, and for figuring out how to get the circles properly centered from the back. I don’t think this one works so well as some others, it is better in person than in the picture, but it still needs… something.

I got my new issue of Craft on Friday. I like it, but it makes me feel really really old. I don’t know if it is a kind of undergraduate pleasures feel to it, or just-slightly-post-graduate or the whole cutting edge thing is far away from where I am. There have been flights of great magazines, and I am sorry to report most of them died long ago. Some of you might be able to lay hands on a copy of one from the early 1980s (that I think was called Craft too, but my memory is hazy these days). It had sewing and knitting, interesting patterns, great photography and kind,  informal writing.

Then, there is Threads, the old version and the new one. I have all the 1st ten years of Threads, 60 issues safely stashed in holders because I still refer to them. I love the cross pollination between disciplines, and the fact that everyone is an artist and pursuing their craft at the most extreme and interesting edge. I miss the range of interest in the current Threads, so I get it from the library or friends, and it takes minutes instead of hours to go through it.

I like all the different things from Interweave, but I can’t stand having to get 5 or 6 magazines to cover a dilletante’s interest in felting, spinning, weaving, knitting, beading and they don’t have sewing at all because really Threads and Sew News cover the waterfront.

But I digress. Craft is here, and I shall go see what kind of trouble I can get into this month.