Lish Dorset

Lish is a founding member of Handmade Detroit and the Detroit Urban Craft Fair. She left Handmade Detroit in 2014.

Lish Dorset loves anything related to crafting. In addition to helping produce the Detroit Urban Craft Fair with Handmade Detroit, she's a freelance craft writer and daytime museum worker.

A Heart a Day: Paint chip gift tags

Get ready, people. The paint chip wreath is about to make a cameo for version 2.0 during this month! (Ooh!) Until then, here’s some paint chip gift tags. I took…

A Heart A Day: Heart tote

  Using the Wonder-Under sandwich technique, I made this lil’ tote bag for my mom for Valentine’s Day!

A Heart A Day: Wine cork place cards

Wine cork crafts are always searched for on this blog. I can understand why- I have an entire bottle of used corks waiting for a good craft. Well, here you…

A Heart A Day: DIY Michigan Tattoo

Yeah, so I got sick today. Like, stay-home-from-school sick. So today’s project is pretty lame: Find a pen Turnover your hand Draw a heart on the part of your hand…

Knit Michigan

Come support a good cause and learn a new hobby. Knit Michigan runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb.7, at the Academy of the Sacred Heart in Bloomfield…

Get ready for Knit Michigan

It’s almost time for Knit Michigan, a great fund-raiser for cancer research. This Saturday, Feb. 7, starting at 10 a.m., you can learn to spin, knit, weave, crochet; check in…

Naka Trunk Show

Stop by Naka in downtown Ferndale from 6-9 p.m. for a trunk show featuring local artists.

A Heart A Day: Heart Bag

So far, so good. Two days in and here’s another project for you! HEART BAG (For this project we’ll be using the heart template we made yesterday.) I can’t properly…

A Heart A Day

February is here, yippee! I love Valentine’s Day, I love red things, I love hearts… happy sigh. Well. This month I will be making and posting a heart something (with…

CPSIA delayed

While some news posted here on Handmade Detroit.com is sad, it’s very exciting to announce that the CPSIA has been delayed for further ruling until Feb. 10, 2010. Check out…