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.

Announcing… more CRAFT magic?!

Compai t-shirts Say it ain’t so! We’re some lucky kids! Ok. So we’ve got awesome books to give out. And we’ll be making a great craft. And we have CRAFT…

CRAFT release party… what to expect!

Are you coming to our party on June 29th at the WAB in Ferndale to celebrate the latest issue of CRAFT? You better be! To get the whole scoop, make…

Vintage Crafty: The Singer Tiny Tailor (1982)

Welcome to a new feature here on Handmade Detroit: VINTAGE CRAFTY! Woohoo! It makes sense. Think of how often you’re at the thrift store and come across a lot of…

LOOP at Detour

Hopefully you had a chance to check out some of the Detour Rock City Fest last week! If you didn’t, you should be a little sad, let’s just be honest.…

It’s time to party!

WOOT! Metro Detroit was selected as one of the cities to host one of this summer’s CRAFT magazine release parties! And we’re honored! Join us on Sunday, June 29, from…

Promote your Etsy shop

If you’re like me, you haven’t gone anywhere for Memorial Day Weekend and instead are getting caught up on all sorts of things, from cleaning your gross bathtub to updating…

Angela’s Eye loves our makers!

Looky, looky! Angela’s Eye has a great feature on some of our favorite gals-about-town… check it out!

Loop at the Lab!

Loop takes it on the road to Detroit, where we will have our May Circle at the Detroit Evolution Lab this Sunday, May 18, from 2:00-4:30 p.m. Please bring a…

Last-minute Mother’s Day gifts

First of all… Happy Mother’s Day to all our crafty mamas out there! Second of all… My gift for my mama totally backfired on me Friday night. OF COURSE, two…

Green Street Fair 2008

Thanks to everyone who came out to the first-ever Green Street Fair and Handmade Detroit involvement! Despite Saturday being described as “Krafty Katrina ’08” by Heart With Wing’s Shannon, the…