I imagine her as a lonely woman with her b’y (boy) out at sea, living in a cold and isolated, yet beautiful, place in the late 1800s. She would know firsthand this heritage of hard times and uncertainty. If Liza wanted something pretty for herself, it would have to be handmade by her out of affordable materials.

Photo by Al Parrish, courtesy of F+W Publications, Inc.

Anticraft: Knitting, Beading, and Stitching for the Slightly Sinister contains eight knitting projects, eight crochet projects, three sewing projects, three jewelry projects, one duct tape project, one beading project, and one cross stitch project.

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