You’re invited! For this month’s free Greenpoint Hand Skills workshop, we’re exploring a technique to dye for! Come on by and learn all about rust dye, a natural dye technique that uses metal + moisture + time to transform fabrics with rusty hues. 

Bring along natural fabrics to dye, such as a hanky, fabric scraps, or a garment. White, cream, or light colored material will work best. Got some miscellaneous hardware lying around (nails, screws, steel wool, etc - does not need to be rusty yet), feel free to bring that along too.

• When: Saturday, April 6 from 12-2 p.m.
• Where: Greenpoint Library, 107 Norman Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11222
• RSVP, please.

Hello, Brooklyn kids (and their loving parents)! This weekend is the fourth annual Inventgenuity Festival. Try saying that five times fast, and make it your business to be there. This free two-day event is all about empowering kids to make things and make things happen, and the roster of workshops and projects is brimming with possibility around this year’s theme: Digital By Hand. 

Last year I had a ton of fun leading workshops in Brooklyn and Boston on making pouches from recycled bike tubes. This year I’ll be there running workshops on making embroidered emoticon badges, and I hope to see your :) faces!

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You’re invited! Cure your cabin fever with me at this month’s Greenpoint Hand Skills workshop on Saturday. We’ll be knittin’ up a storm. Total beginners and seasoned knitters welcome. (It’s free!)

• When: Saturday, November 3 from 12-2 p.m.
• Where: Greenpoint Library, 107 Norman Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11222
• RSVP, please.

Hello, friends! I am teaching two fun and budget-friendly classes in Brooklyn, NY within the next week, and you’re invited.

 Sew a Merit Badge

 When: Saturday, Sept 22, 12-2 p.m.

 Where: Greenpoint Library, 107 Norman Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11222

Join us for an afternoon of making Girl Scout-inspired merit badges at this month’s Greenpoint Hand Skills meeting at the Greenpoint Library. Free admission includes supplies, CUP coffee, and Peter Pan doughnuts! Sign up here.

 Bike Tube Projects: The Silver Lining of Flat Tires

When: Monday, September 24, 8:30-10pm Where:  Brooklyn Brainery, 515 Court Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231

What: We’ll start with humble, unwanted bike inner  tubes and end the evening with fully customized and  useful accessories. Along the way you’ll learn tips for working with this material, ideas for embellishing, and plant seeds for future creative reuse projects. Ride on! ($14) Sign up here.

I hope you’ll join me!

I realized that the last two photos I took were of cats posing candidly with fruit. Then I realized that the internet could probably use a few more cat pics in the mix. You’re welcome.

Well, we did it! On Saturday, Brian and I circumnavigated the entire 32+ miles of Manhattan island on foot. We laced up our walking shoes bright and early and joined hundreds of others as part of the 27th annual Great Saunter. Last year we made the mistake of meadering at too leisurely of a pace and stopping too much to take photos, and made it about 26 miles. This year we proudly hobbled to the finish point in South Street Seaport to the cheers of a nearby Cinco de Mayo party. (I pretended that all the whoopin’ and hollerin’ was all for us.)

Here are a few photos from our trek:

I posted a few more photos here, if you just can’t get enough.