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Seed Starting: Newspaper Pots
In the Pacific Northwest, it’s time to start your garden—or at least start thinking about your garden—if you haven’t already. Even if you aren’t ready to get outside quite yet, you can start by doing your garden planning and starting some seeds indoors. An easy, fun, and inexpensive way to start seeds indoors is in newspaper pots! Newspaper pots are great because you probably already have all the supplies you need at home and—because most newspapers now use organic pigments—they’re biodegradable and can be planted straight out into the garden. If you aren’t sure what kind of ink your local newspaper uses, check their website or just contact them and ask. To…
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Holiday Gift Idea- Quilted Potholders!
Every year, I post something holiday gift related. This year, I have another fun and easy handmade gift idea for you: quilted potholders! I have made quite a few of these for friends, family, craft sales and myself. I have a very well-loved (i.e. a little food stained) potholder in my kitchen that I use everyday, so these potholders are pretty and functional! These potholders are quilted, have a pocket and loop and are finished with binding. Since the way I do the binding is best explained visually, I’ve included a couple of videos for this tutorial. Part 1 shows how I do the quilting and has tips for marking lines, using a walker foot…
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Rake and Make- now with video!
I have so much to learn about video and look wackadoo in this one, but as I am always saying, if you wait for everything to be perfect, nothing will ever get done. I just wanted to jump in, see how my new camera works and get something posted, so here it is! Not saying “Um” is really hard. I felt like I had to talk really slowly and think about what I was saying, so I will be practicing that. I have much to learn in regards to color, audio (I can already tell I probably need any auxiliary mic), editing, exporting/compressing, players/embedding and more, but it will be…
