Author: Leigh Wheeler

Recently I went to the Oregon Flock and Fiber Festival. This year’s theme was lace. We have some amazingly talented lacemakers in the Portland Metro area! There was a beautiful exhibit of various kinds...

Lefkara Lace (or Lefkaritika) is made on the island of Cyprus in the village of Lefkara and is on the UNESCO cultural heritage list. It is a bit reminiscent of Hardanger (Norwegian whitework), in...

I love Spring! We have finally opened our bedroom window overnight, and wake to the sounds of birds chirping in the morning. Lovely! We have a favorite who makes such a happy little morning...

At Kayla Kennington’s presentation, she talked about getting inspired and creating our own unique style. That always seems a bit overwhelming. Like someone handing you a blank piece of paper and a pen and...

The time for gardening catalogs has come! My mailbox and email overflow with flowers, veggies and blue-sky pictures of gardens twice the size of my whole urban lot. Weeds are forgotten and optimism abounds!...

A  co-worker has a lavender farm, and sells a number of products: soap, essential oil, flavored salt and other culinary seasonings, and best of all, reasonably priced non-culinary lavender flowers. A friend and I...

As a Marketing and Communications major from back in my Master’s program days, as well as a psychology major in undergrad, I greatly enjoy the hoopla surrounding the dramatic revelation of THE colors for...

As we can now head down to the store and buy ourselves a useful and stylish apron, we hardly think of its significance. Aprons actually date back many centuries. Until the industrial revolution, and...

The “make do and mend” tradition that we are familiar with in America, has sister traditions in Japan as Boro cloth, and in rural India as Kantha. Nakshi Kantha is a cotton coverlet made...