Pam Berry is a pioneer of the craft and zine scene. She’s co-founder of Chickfactor, an influential musician (Black Tambourine, The Castaway Stones, Glo-Worm and more), a seamstress, button collector, pie maker, and a national treasure in the US and the UK.
What’s your craft handle? Any previous incarnations?
I go by Craft Ho for everything I [...]

This week I’d like to get personal. My grandma has always had her hands working on some kind of craft and I attribute my hand-made skills to her.

Each week, the Hello Craft Podcast collects stories of making and buying handmade.
In this week’s episode, Tina Seamonster (that’s me!) learns to embroider! And relax!
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About a year ago well known artist Stephen Sollins exhibited his newest body of work in the show “Domestic Scenes.”
This work came out of his previous practice which explored the emotional roles and systems that are manifested within everyday objects.  With “Domestic Scenes” Stephen deconstructed found everyday embroideries to create modernist geometric drawings.  By unthreading [...]

In 2000 I stumbled upon the work of Dutch artist Hella Jongerius in a magazine. At the time I had recently started teaching myself to work with clay and was stuck in a very commercial and static mindset. Her embroidered porcelain dishware definitely gave me a moment of “joyous jealousy”. Jongerius takes a historically functional [...]