lee meredith

Game Knitting!

| Betsy

I met Lee Meredith, or Leethal, this past spring in Portland and was oh-so-happy to be lucky enough to receive one of her craftgasm patches! This alone was reason enough for a complete craft crush, and then I discovered Bad Movie Bingo, the amazing game she made with her hubby-to-be, Pete Bejarano, which makes really bad movies even better, helping them to fully embrace their badness full on!

And last week, Lee self-published her own e-book, Game Knitting, chock full of projects you can knit in between turns of Clue or Battleship. Color me amazed. Again. At 65 pages for only $9, it’s a steal, and with it you get the added bonus of being the craftiest game player in the room.

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For those crafty folk in the DC area, chances are you were at Crafty Bastards yesterday! After spending a few hours helping people make buttons* at the good ship Hello Craft, I bought three things from vendors I’ve swooned over for years: toast plush from My Paper Crane, a fascinator from Giant Dwarf and a Supermaggie.

In case you missed it, check out the photos over here on Flickr. Be sure to check out the b-boy battle photos, too! Apparently if you want to get me to not move for an hour and a half, you must bring a breakdancing competition that reminds me of my childhood. Seriously. It was awesome.

*I made a button for myself that said, “Ask me about my job search,” which kept me giggling despite the somewhat depressing and confidence crushing job hunt that so many of us are on these days. Have yet to wear it out in the non-crafty public. Keep your eyes peeled, DC area people.

The Creative Life Dot Net.

| Betsy

If there’s one thing I like, it’s projects. Even the word “project” sounds lovely just by itself, doesn’t it? Clicking on the photo above will send you to my newest project, a collaboration with Kim Werker, The Creative Life. What started out as personal emails of frustration, honesty and openness, we decided to expand our dialogue outward.

This trying to live your life as you want it can be messy. And hard. And frustrating, anxiety-enduing, annoying, and a complete pain. But it also can bring newness in the form of discoveries, friends, journeys, dreams and hopes. To join in this conversation you don’t have to work solely for yourself, you just have to believe that life is to be lived not just endured. So often we’re so freaked out that we’ll screw up that we do nothing, and find ourselves with our heads in the sand wondering how in the hell we’re going to make things right.

But we just need to hold on to the seemingly impossible idea that we will make them right, even if there are a few mistakes and bumps along the way. So go on over and check it out, okay?

The photo above was taken by the amazingly wonderful and talented Lee Meredith of Kim and I modeling our “smocks of creativity” in Knitt’n Kitten in Portland, Oregon. And yes, we bought them! What better thing to don on a dreary day when inspiration seems to have left you than a weird-fitting smock?