Rit Dye has a swank new website including all kinds of fun projects and ideas for crafters. Of special interest to us of course are all the upcycling projects.

This week’s special featured artist is of particular interest. To me anyway. Well, it is me. So perhaps that’s why. You can read all about it   here… [...]

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True to our tagline, we really do like to make stuff with our kids. We like to make stuff without our kids too which can actually make the making of stuff with our kids a little more complicated. Sometimes our own vision gets in the way and we have to remember that it’s not just [...]

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Yes, it’s true. More free fabric coming your way. As Kathie and I work out the details of our upcoming book, and figure out the tone we’ll take and whether or not we’ll have a little bullshit icon for when we get too uppity in that parenting kind of way, we’ll be thinking of all [...]

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That’s right folks. It’s official. Kathie and I will be joining the ranks of Lotta Jansdotter and that famous Soule Mama soon, as we just this week signed our name on the dotted lines of our Future Craft Collective book contract with Wiley Publishing. We are super excited to get to work creating the tome [...]

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We are continuing our collaboration with Craftzine for fall with monthly projects under the heading Reduce, Reuse, Refashion. Last month we made produce bags out of mesh sports jerseys.

And this month, just in time for Halloween, we present our Halloween t-shirt Trick or Treat bag. Check it out. Whip up a few and get ready [...]

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We’re back on Craftzine this season with a new collection of projects under the heading, Reduce, Reuse, Refashion. Our first project out the bag, (pun totally intended) is for these super cool, lightweight and breathable produce bags made from sports jerseys. Get on over there and check ‘em out. And while you’re at it, check [...]

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Kathie and I are still trying to get into our fall groove although admittedly, with the weather hovering in the low 90s, it’s not super easy to make that shift.  But we’re back in school, well the kids are anyway, and we’ve volunteered to run the green committee which started off with the clothes swap [...]

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Okay, it’s been a few weeks since we posted last. Kathie went west. I went east. Both to our motherlands and to our mothers too. We each saw various friends and family. We visited old haunts and shared them with our kiddos. We played and hiked and camped and swam and ate and drank and [...]

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This is not exactly a Future Craft kind of project. We haven’t yet graduated into working with glass but I met this artist yesterday and was so blown away by his work and his love of the process that I wanted to share it here.

We’ve been talking so much with the kids in class about [...]

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Hey! Check out our interview on Craftypod! We’re totally excited to be featured on Craftypod. We loved our time with Sister Diane and we loved our interview process too.
You can listen to it here on Craftypod.com

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