In 2013 I made my first world map quilt. In fact, it was my first quilt. Ever. And it was just for my own personal use. I didn’t make it with any intentions to monetize from it. But it started to get quite a bit of attention, and I started to receive requests for commissioned […]
Recently, I found myself walking out of a mom + pop rug gallery with this amazing pillow cover. It was an impulse buy, which is something that is fundamentally not “intentional”. I try to avoid impulse purchases, but the owners of this rug store were so helpful in offering me information about our oriental rug, […]
For the last seven years, our family has hopped around twelve times. Twelve. We were moving every six months or so, and when your life is that transitional, you don’t exactly let yourself root in anywhere and make meaningful connections with people. I was getting by on friendly smiles and small talk, essentially, for years. […]
It’s been much too long since I’ve added a tutorial to the Yellow Spool blog! This is one that I’ve been meaning to share for a long time. Rope making. It’s such a useful skill to have, whether you want to make rope for a project, or you need to make rope in an emergency, […]
It’s a common misconception that little people require big things in big quantities. The truth is, children don’t need very much at all to be happy. Italian photographer, Gabriele Galimberti, traveled the globe photographing children with their most prized possessions for his project, Toy Stories. As far as I can tell, the photo series wasn’t […]