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.

Beware of your craft supplies… Yikes!

Anyone read the back of a tube of craft glue recently? No joke: “This product contains a chemical known to the state of California to cause cancer. Harmful is inhaled…

Crafting at the thrift store

Talk about about a good night for craft finds! I stopped by my local Salvation Army and came away with these two things: A stained-glass form (I wonder what Glass…

Naughty Secretary Club wants you to craft on Etsy, Flickr

This is nifty! Naughty Secretary Club has joined the Etsy kids with Crafty Curios, a selection of bits and pieces for all your crafty needs. Here’s how Jennifer described the…

Knitting for a cause in Ferndale

I had a lovely time learning how to knit (can you believe of all the needle crafts that I do KNITTING isn’t one of them?!) with Amy this past Sunday…

Knit for a good cause this weekend

My good friend Amy Leang is starting a knitting group with a “do-gooder” twist. They’ll be working on goods to donate to charities here, there, and everywhere. The first meeting…

Get involved at the Baar

Lish and Steph Members of Handmade Detroit were at Wednesday’s Baar Bazaar to sell their deeeelish goods during the Apples in Stereo show (and no, they didn’t play the Stephen…

Curbly has me hooked

This week has been all about online happenings, hasn’t it? Thanks to a tip from commenter Bruno on our HGTV post, I signed up for Curbly today, another online community…

HGTV to launch social networking for DIYers

YES! Finally, my inner nerd and crafter can merge into one uber cyber dork, all thanks to HGTV’s plans to launch “Rate My Room” on Monday, Feb. 26.

Don’t miss the latest issue of CROQ!

In keeping with our “don’t miss this fabulous XXX,” the latest issue of CROQ zine has hit the newsstands and is chocked full of great crafty info. You can pick…

Henrietta Fahrenheit launches blog

In case you missed it, Henrietta Fahrenehit recently launched a blog. Make sure to check it out!