This week’s post is a two-parter. I’ve got a tutorial for you, but first I want to tell you about the amazing crafting event I was at on Wednesday night.

Last summer my friend Missie Peters, a local poet and performer, put on an awesome craft fair that involved not only vendors but also poetry, a film screening, booze and button-making. It was the best craft fair I’d been to, and I told her so while begging to be part of the next one (and demanding that there be a next one).

This year Missie wanted to change things up, and had the idea of getting people to do their own crafting. Because ostensibly that’s what’s so cool and fascinating about craft fairs: everything you see has been made by the person showing it to you. So what could be more fun than discovering that you, too, can make this stuff? So Missie, myself, Sammie Gough knitter, beer brewer, Intrepid Theatre publicist, and co-organizer of the first Iconocraft) and Amanda Farrell-Low (arts and music writer, cat lover) spent a bunch of time drinking, crafting and munching on local cheeses while we planned this year’s Iconocraft. Read the full post »