The Waste Basket Blog

Hello! Sometimes in fiber art you have to unravel the old to make way for the new... here's a picture of a piece I made last month and...

(I actually only have 3 days left here but I started and abandoned a bunch of draft posts so I will probably just keep posting them after...

It is hard to believe I have been here for two weeks, and that my stay is half over. This is another lifestyle dump... the studio work...

Almost exactly a year ago, I came into possession of several bagfuls of discarded lobster rope (or "pot warp") while attending Courtney...

Masks are a part of our daily lives now, and that's a really good thing. There are lots of studies and circumstantial evidence indicating...

I am going through something I imagine many people experience after reading Braiding Sweetgrass: I am listening. “Paying attention is a...

I am now one quarter of the way through my month-long stay at Art Farm. I'm here as an artist in residence along with about half a dozen...

There are a lot of ways to repurpose clothing that is too run down to wear or donate. If the item is beyond repair and you're not up for...

I've posted about my quest to use the ~50 umbrellas I picked up off the street in NYC, and about my process for turning umbrella fabric...

Basically any kind of fiber or textile-based crafting practice requires a good storage system. You simply have a lot of material to keep...

When I started brainstorming things to make out of the umbrella fabric I'd collected, it didn't take long to add aprons to the list....

I've spent much of the past few months on material explorations involving discarded umbrellas. I plan to make dedicated posts for some of...

I'm Katie, a buildings engineer by day and a hobbyist maker by night. I've been knitting since I was a kid, and as an adult I've become...