Song/Craft is an irregular series on music and the handmade movement.

There are the things familiar to just about everyone who’s ever shopped a handmade marketplace: soaps in heady scents, pendants in the shapes of birds and octopuses, totes and T-shirts decorated with bicycles, turntables, and cassettes. And then there are the things Juli Sherry and [...]

Shannon Duffy has studied psychology in North Carolina, woodworking in Kentucky, and jewelry making in Arizona. But a bigger influence on what she does as a crafter might be the time she spent playing with dolls in Germany. “We were stationed there with the Army. We lived near Erlangen when I was 10 to 13 [...]

Fifteen years ago Liesl Gibson began to suspect the sewing industry might have a problem. She wanted to make something for her 2-year-old niece to wear, but she couldn’t find many patterns that she liked. “I picked out a dress pattern for her that I thought would be cute,” she recalls. “But it didn’t fit [...]

Song/Craft is an irregular series on music and the handmade movement.

Most musicians can point to a song, album, or concert that changed their lives. Seja Vogel can point to a craft project. “I always loved making little felt presents when I was younger, but I never thought it was something special or different,” she recalls. [...]

Song/Craft is an irregular series on music and the handmade movement.
Michael Rucci has spent the past three years designing small electronic devices that can be used to play a very large number of songs. But don’t think for a minute that he’s envious of the iPod. “Because everything’s been so miniaturized. … I’m not sure [...]

Every Monday, Hello Craft Directors present our favorite picks of the week from the creative community. We’ll dish what’s caught our eyes at the moment from giveaways, blog postings and shop offerings, [...]