Portland craft article in today’s Willamette Week!

October 3, 2007 at 10:09 am | In I love to make things..., books and mags, chatty, oregon, reviews and interviews |

I was so excited to see Beth Slovic’s “Crafty B*tches” cover story in today’s Willamette Week! She interviewed me and dozens of other crafters for the feature and I really appreciate her graceful, layered approach to crafts and feminism as well as culture and commerce, and Portland as a community inclusive of all these things. So if you never knew that my mom and I marched for the ERA in 1982, or that I tried to take auto mechanics in high school and lasted all of two days before transferring into yet another art class, well, now you do!

Beth highlighted some of my own projects like susanstars and West Coast Crafty, and included some things very near and dear to my heart: my collective PDX Super Crafty, Crafty Wonderland, Diane Gilleland’s craftypod blog and Church of Craft, Jessica Neuman Beck’s Cranky Pals, Amy Karol’s Bend-The-Rules Sewing, Handmade Nation, getcrafty.com, BUST, Etsy, and the Museum of Contemporary Craft. And thanks to the article, I just checked out Mother Made and Andi Zeisler’s embroidered pet portraits for the first time.

Here’s a photo of me in my studio from the article, surrounded by craft implements (the numbers correspond to a list of essentials here in the article — if you’re interested, scroll down):

Chris Ryan photo of me for Willamette Week
photo by Chris Ryan for Willamette Week

A few of my favorite things are mixed in there too: a copy of Super Crafty, two of my log cabin pillows, my Cathy of California mushroom pincushion, my shim+sons wall+pocket board, and my Totinette crocodile earrings!

ps: why b*tches? well, I already get a lot of junk traffic and comments from spammy google searches and I figured I didn’t need to tempt fate by spelling it out!

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  1. That is such a fun article. I am really glad that the author choose to take the feminist angle.

    Congratulations on being a rock star!

    Comment by guphy — October 3, 2007 #

  2. oooh i just got home from powell’s with my copy - so awesome! i wouldn’t expect it to be a cover story, only in portland!! makes me even happier to be living here!

    Comment by lee — October 3, 2007 #

  3. what a great picture! looking forward to reading the article!

    Comment by Christina — October 4, 2007 #

  4. wooo-hoo thanks so much for the shout out and what a great article! I’m so proud of portland.

    Comment by amy k. — October 4, 2007 #

  5. how fantastic! you look so very pretty in your fabulous crafty lair!

    Comment by stacy — October 4, 2007 #

  6. Congrats on the well-deserved shout out!

    Comment by Christina — October 4, 2007 #

  7. i love WW. i am a transplant to southern Oregon but desire, eventually, Portland. Anyway, i loved the feature picture- a scissor-weilding Rosy the Crafter.

    Congratulations on being recognized.

    Comment by chughes — October 4, 2007 #

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  9. Yes, wonderful photo! And a great article too. Your blog is amazing by the way. I enjoy it very much.

    Comment by Carye — October 5, 2007 #

  10. dang foxy ;)

    Comment by jennifer perkins — October 19, 2007 #

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