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.

Sublime Stitching Handmade Nation embroidery

Talk about a good cause! Make sure to check out Sublime Stitching for a limited-edition pattern to support the upcoming documentary. Nice! Larger picture HERE on Flickr.

iPod Halloween costumes

Sometimes it’s VERY hard to decide what you’re going to be for Halloween. Realizing I needed a costume for our Craft-O-Ween event last weekend, I decided to go with what…

Handmade Nation opening title sequence

EEEE! It’s almost here! If the film is like this opening, I don’t know what I’ll do with myself. Enjoy! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXQZOxFwK8E[/youtube]

Detroit Tigers jewelry

I’m a Tigers fan. Because I’m a fan and the season is now over, I have no problem saying that the Tigers SUCKED this season. Like, a lot. However, that…

Detroit Jazz Fest crafts

I was so glad to see some great artsy activities for kids at last weekend’s Detroit Jazz Fest: Buckets of sidewalk chalk turn into: …art!

Project Runway as craft line?

What in the world… I was at Joann the other day and saw that there’s a Project Runway craft line for the kids… Your model… Some accessories… Your fabric…

Pewabic Pottery fire sale

One of my favorite artsy events of the summer, and signal that fall is on the way, is the Pewabic Pottery’s fire sale. I adore it. Great story tiles, misfired…

Keep scrappin’, kids.

What can I say. I saw this in Berkley on Saturday en route to the Berkley Front and laughed out loud. Words to live by, people, words to live by.

Martha Stewart crafts at Wal-Mart

I know, I almost did a double take, too. Yep, it turns out Miss Martha is now selling part of her paper-crafting line Martha Stewart line at Wal-Marts across the…

The T-Shirt Deli

Talk about a great surprise I stumbled upon in Chicago! The T-Shirt Deli has been alive and kicking for the past five years. They were set up at Lollapalooza this…