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.

DUCF gets some love online

Stay close to your computer (and newspaper box) in the next few days. Some great reports are already hitting the Internet(s) on this year’s Detroit Urban Craft Fair. More to…

BlogHer coverage coming soon!

Make sure to check back next week for my report on all the unexpected craftiness at this year’s BlogHer event in Chicago. From the photo I posted already, I met…

A day in Detroit

Clearly, you’ll be spending a majority of your Saturday at the Detroit Urban Craft Fair (Why wouldn’t you?! We’re a choice pick over at the Metro Times!). Clearly. But if…

Why should you go to the 2007 DUCF?

As we were putting our great vendor and door goodie bags in one of the green rooms at the theater today, we spotted this gem: Now, only a DETROIT craft…

DUCF volunteers make it happen!

Here at Handmade Detroit, we love our friends and volunteers just as we love googly eyes. Without you guys, we wouldn’t be able to pull off some of the great…

Craftrelebrities: Amy Sedaris

Wow! After hearing an amazing session on the current craft community online today at BlogHer, I got a chance to meet Amy Sedaris and purchase some of her crafts! And…

You meet crafters in the funniest places…

…Like at the annual BlogHer conference here in Chicago. (I have more frequent travel miles than I know what to do with!) I’m here for work, but I had no…

Bloggers, this is your call to action!

Basically, we’re looking for you to help us promote the Detroit Urban Craft Fair. It doesn’t matter if you’re outside of Detroit or Michigan, we’re looking for some crafty folks…

Crafting with Tupperware

I love vintage Tupperware. While doing a search online for some cool blogs on the subject, I found this very cool post from Tony Meredith about using vintage pieces to…

Looking Back at… Shadow Art Fair!

Thanks to everyone who came out last Saturday (yes, it’s been a week already!) to the 2007 summer Shadow Art Fair. It was packed, we were covered in sweat, and…