What 1970's craft books teach us about change I am obsessed with the 70's. Not the bell bottoms, lava lamps and disco music 70's. I am...

I made the belt on a whim, because I happened to have four feet of canvas-covered felt left from another project. Four feet! That's a...

I have been wanting to try my hand at Japanese Sashiko stitching, an ancient technique of reinforcing clothing with geometrical patterns...

This is episode 52 of project 105. The half way point. This week's project is about tension and the dentition to give up, half way...

So much waste everywhere: disposable cups and plates, plastic bags, fast clothing. We are drowning in trash. Creating generates its own...

There always seems to come a time in any project when I have had enough: enough drawing, embroidering, cutting, sewing, enough of what...

I love nothing more than a challenge so I spent most of last weekend hand-embroidering the top of shoes. I am usually patient but I do...

I came upon this book titled "Fine Little Day" which I got to buy for just $1.80. Ah! I love myself a good bargain. The book - which...

We are so used to consuming the end-products of the creative process - movies, songs, art - that we largely ignore the process of...

I am late posting this week, although, to be fair, there is neither an actual schedule by which I am supposed to post or a blog inspector...

Last summer I emailed Mary Rogers, host of the "Experience 50" podcast, to tell her how much her work meant to me. I did not expect a...

I am delighted to be in the group show "Stitches - The art of Needlework". Texas Art Asylum 1719 Live Oak, Houston, Texas 77003 Saturday...

Project 105 is on hold this week and maybe next. As many of you know, I am based in Houston and even though my family and I are safe and...

This is what my studio looked like this afternoon: threads everywhere, cardboard, paper, mat cutter, scissors, more scissors, the sewing...

In the process of working out the fourth piece of Project 105, I decided to handwrite a copy of the story that is being illustrated. ...

Writer and illustrator P.M. Nest takes the first step toward venturing outside the boundaries of friends and family.