I remember the first time I set up a two-hour pop-up performance of knitted puppets at a summer folk festival: a soggy field, a tiny crowd gathered under a borrowed gazebo, and five small characters...
Rain at a summer folk festival is as inevitable as an accordion tune —...
When someone asks me, "How much should I charge for custom knitted character...
I’ve recently fallen into a new kind of craft: shaping my game around the...
I make a lot of small characters. Tiny hands, tilted caps, and button eyes...
When a folk tale is told at a festival it breathes, twists, and grows with...
I’ve run a pop-up repair and mending station at handfuls of folk festivals...
I often think of knitted characters as tiny actors on a patchwork stage: their stitches are costumes, their stuffing is posture, and their maker is...
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