I would like to introduce you to my friend and great inspiration, Erin Gilday, the amazing woman behind Patchwork Underground. Erin is a fiber artist, crafts instructor, freelance writer and pattern designer from Portland, OR. Her sewing patterns and craft culture pieces have appeared in Stitch, Sew News, Quilts and More, Threads, SewStylish, The Quilt Life, Piecework, Sew Hip and Curve ...
Interviews
Quilt Heritage
Nothing makes a long winter night as snug as a handmade quilt to snuggle up beneath. In spite of my crafty tendencies, quilting is not one of my pursuits. The measuring, ironing, pinning and straight lines turned me away from the get go. I made a quilt once for my best friend, and some small one's for my kids bunk beds. That was it. I was done. Fortunately, we have a quilter in the family, my ...
Women Who Dig Rocks
Recently, my old friend Thena came through town to visit on an Oregon rock hounding/fossil hunting road trip with her daughter, Raine who has big plans to become a Paleontologist. Being the rock collector that I am (I can't help it! They just come home with me everywhere I go!), I was very intrigued by their trip. Armed with their rock hammers, pick, shovel and a book called Gem ...
An Interview With Taryn Kae Wilson, Modern Homesteader of the Siuslaw River
Taryn Wilson, and her husband Jeff are some folks you ought to know. They are artists, modern homesteaders, masters of simple living, a well of joy and inspiration, and two people I feel very lucky to call friends. I am happy to introduce you to them with this interview. I met Taryn at their Eugene Saturday Market booth, Mystic Orb, and was drawn in by all of Jeff's amazing bone and wood carvings ...
Urban Chicken Revolution! A Mountain Hearth Tour De Coops
Have you always wanted chickens? Do you live in town and pine away for country life so you can get a few hens and produce your own farm fresh eggs? It may come as a surprise to some of you to hear that YOU CAN! An urban chicken revolution is sweeping across the nation, and city folks all over the place are gathering farm fresh eggs right in their own backyard. Chicken lovers tend to flock ...
Please Remove Your Shoes: An In-depth Look at the Barefoot Truth
You show up at someones house to visit and you notice shoes piled outside the door. This may seem curious, until children come running up to greet you and let you know in the same sentence as their greeting, to please remove your shoes. It may seem radical, but this is a shoe-free house. I discovered this foot loose and fancy free lifestyle when I was going to baby playgroups, and noticed that ...
An Interview With ReWild Eugene
I first heard of Matt and Anna Bradley when they taught my children animal tracking at a summer camp. My kids came home and told me they had learned to track animals from professional trackers that day. Professional trackers? This sounded like a wonderful thing to be. I was intrigued. Then I had the pleasure of watching Matt and Anna create fire without matches at a Kalapuya traditional skills ...
Crafters i Love: Lara Colley of A Mountain Hearth
Here's another Mountain Hearth interview by Erin Gilday, crafty seamstress extraordinaire of Patchwork Underground. I am constantly inspired by her crafting business, freelance writing projects, and her home on wheels, Luna the house bus. Have a look around her website and you will see what I mean! http://www.patchworkunderground.com/Here is the link to the interview below:Crafters i Love: Lara ...
Wooly Moss Roots: Meet Lara, a wild mountain woman…
Mountain Hearth is featured in an interview this week on Wooly Moss Roots by Taryn Kae Wilson, an amazing mountain homesteader of the Siuslaw River. Here is the link below...Wooly Moss Roots: Meet Lara, a wild mountain woman... ...