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 [...]

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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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From the Book of Sewing Revelations What’s a Scrap Ball you ask? We stumbled across this idea during class one afternoon in that sort of lightbulb-over-your-head kind of way. The ball itself is a classic kid project – straightforward, sweet, and super satisfying to play with at the end.  The lightbulb moment came, not from [...]

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It’s Earth Day people! We are continuing our pursuit of finding new materials and new ideas for those new materials. As per a couple posts ago, we have gathered lots of discarded triathlon materials from our local triathlon shop, Jack and Adams. This bag is made from an event banner and discarded inner tubes. The [...]

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We got some really cool materials yesterday from our local triathlon shop, Jack and Adams. They are starting a whole new endeavor in attempts to minimize their waste a bit. They are encouraging cyclists to bring all their old parts and pieces down to their recycling center so that others can dig through and get [...]

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We just did a phone interview with Diane Gilleland of Craftypod fame for a podcast about Future Craft Collective. Our podcast should be up sometime around May 1st and we are excited to hear how it sounds. We are grateful to Diane for allowing us to spout about our ideas and desires for Future Craft [...]

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These are some of the materials I’ve been playing with lately in the sewing machine… Obama-Biden campaign banners Wax bags from inside the cereal boxes Coffee bags made of that sort of metal/plastic stuff such as the Cafe Bustelo bricks File folders Cereal boxes Metal bags from inside certain cracker boxes bird seed bags burlap [...]

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We spend a lot of time here in the studio – coming up with project ideas, sewing, writing, talking, singing, laughing. Okay, so maybe the singing and laughing doesn’t have anything to do with it all. (Or maybe it has everything to do with it all, who knows?) Anyway, we don’t want to exist in [...]

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