Crocheting Playgrounds

We started this 5-part series on improv artists doing needlework with yarn bombing – a form of street art whose primary purpose is to produce smiles. We end it with crocheted playgrounds – an […]

Men Who Knit

From yesteryear’s Cary Grant to this year’s Ryan Gosling, a number of male celebrities are known knitters, but few are known for their creative knitting. Franklin Habit and Kaffe Fassett are two men who […]

Colorful and Complex Brains

Laura Bundesen is a western Massachusetts-based artist whose mission “is to spread joy and wonder through my works of art – and a little brain education too.” That makes her a perfect fit for […]

Crocheting Coral

Yarn bombing takes the art of crocheting to the streets. The Crochet Coral Reef Project takes it underwater. Yarn bombing is usually done with the lighthearted purpose of adding fun to our daily lives; […]

Fabric and Needlework Artists – Quite a Yarn

This next series of 5 improv artists blogs is focused on artists whose medium is fabric or needlework. We took you outdoors for the last series on street art, so it makes sense to […]

Making envelopes from calendars

This is the last of our blogs (at least for now) on the topic of arousing curiosity through colorful envelopes that beg to be opened. We talked about making mini-envelopes from the images in […]

How to display your creations

Last week was about Good Fortunes, and I hope you downloaded the complete exercise with its many message ideas to make it easy to do. But what the download doesn’t cover is how to […]

Decorating the messages

In my last blog, I provided suggestions for messages to put inside all the enticing envelopes I have suggested making. Recently, I hosted a message-decorating gathering for the Good Fortune slips. The group was […]

Making tiny envelopes from catalog pictures

Another source for making enticing envelopes is catalogs. I get a bunch and usually drop them directly into a recycling bin, but a bonsai catalog made it all the way to my desk. I […]

More enticing envelope designs

My cousin Julie set in motion my current obsession for making fun envelopes when she sent an article she wanted me to read in an envelope of a rose with only the address label […]