Stuff You Can't Have

Enough with all of the branding, a misbegotten idea that works very well for the businesses involved but a sadly humiliating prospect for h...

Weekend picnickers and partiers at Lake Merritt in Oakland often employ folding metal gazebos — the kind you see vendors using at farmers m...

Embroidered ex voto I have been inspired in the past by  Mexican  retablos  - folk-art images painted on tin or wood thanking Catho...

Mended avocado Part of the Mended Produce series, a sewer's response to objects torn asunder and in seeming need of repair. (A...

Mending may start as a practical necessity, but throughout history and around the world we see it evolve into a tradition, an art for...

In preparation for the first of May, I have just completed the third year of seasonal sashiko stitching and boro mending on a s...

How many men's shirts do you need to create one dress for a seven-year-old? A hell of a lot more than I would have thought. The 3...