My first Wikipedia edit

This week was my first experience with editing a Wikipedia page. When I began to think of the topic I wanted to edit I was at a little bit of a loss. I finally landed on the TItanic, because my roommate is somewhat of an expert and knows every small detail there is to know […]

An online community

Social Media and the internet have inspired me to find new projects, as well as light a fire under me to crochet even more.  In my classes, digital media literacy included, we talk a lot about how algorithms affect the user experience and how they can be positive or negative. In this case, I have […]

Where to start…

My first exposure to fiber arts was at school in 5th grade. I went to a Waldorf School (I could make a whole post about that) where we learned skills through the experience of making, building and creating projects from gardening to art.  A required class for each year was called “handworking.”  Every semester’s curriculum […]

Piles of yarn

Last week, I received a remarkable contribution in support of my personal and artistic development. About a month ago my mother sent me a Nextdoor post from her neighbor in Cornville, AZ. The post showed a room full, floor to ceiling, stuffed with bags of yarn for sale. After finally getting in communication with the […]

A crafting saga

Now that I have this blog up and running I have a choice about the content that I want to post and have decided to let this be an outlet for the topics about which I am personally passionate rather than purely professionally oriented.  Right now my work is being a college student. To me, […]