If you happen to see this magazine cover on your local newsstand, please do take a look. Because inside its glossy pages, you will find the first-ever magazine interview with me! I am particularly proud to be in the “Guts” issue of Pistil because, the publication is one after my own heart- tackling fashion and activism!

Now that I’m done tooting my own horn (!!), here’s a little update on my crafter documentary project, which has been slowed down due to my own computer incompetence…but each time I steal a peek at all the awesome submissions that my fellow artists, crafters and makers have sent me, I’m fuelled anew. I am honored that so many of you chose to help me in this little project depicting ‘the new face of craft.’

While I’m calling the actual collection (once I get all the pictures and text online) “The New Face of Craft,” I actually see craft as part of a long continuum rather than a slate that keeps getting erased and remarked. Part of what drove me to craft in the first place was the idea that by participating in crafts I was continuing a tradition that extends long beyond anyone currently here on earth.

Thankfully, I’m more adept with textiles and words than I am with computers, which tend to frustrate me because they are so forward-thinking! (Although Sadie Plant might disagree with me…which reminds me I need to reread Zeros + Ones!) I like the notion that I can create something new and old simultaneously within one individual action…it just makes more sense to me to bridge two dimensions instead of always trying to re-invent the wheel. And I’m overjoyed that I’m not alone in this.

Seeing that I head to England in a mere six days, I have a lot to do this week, but that’s all part of the fun of things, isn’t it? Keeping busy?! For once, I won’t have to pack all a half suitcase of wool to take with me, as I will be learning how to spin it…and will subsequently have to figure out how to dye it all hot pink!