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.

Crafty Profile: Great Lakes Etsy

Melissa is on a mission to bring some much-needed love to the people and crafters of Michigan. She’s leading a crafty street team, Great Lakes Etsy, which is a move…

If you look closely…

Molly Mast, fellow Michigan crafter and DUCF vendor, posts her thoughts here on last weekend’s Shadow Art Fair. If you look real close at the crowd shot, you can see…

Project Crawl: Legggo of my Legos!

Legos. Ahh, what a toy. Perfect for girls and boys, kids and growed-ups. But did you know that Legos have more to offer than just multi-color homes snapped into big…

Thanks, CraftSanity!

In case you haven’t noticed, the craft fair is all over the place. And thanks to the lovely Jennifer at CraftSanity, we’re all over the digital airwaves, too! Jennifer just…

Ypsilanti sure knows how to craft!

Thanks to everyone at the Shadow Art Fair for a wonderful fair experience and lots of reasons to get ridiculously excited for Aug. 5. Stephanie, Christine and I headed over…

Set your iTunes to CraftSanity

Tired of the same old NPR podcast? Well, Jennifer Ackerman-Haywood has the solution. Jennifer is the host of CraftSanity, a crafty-based podcast available for download on her Web site or…

Project Crawl: Paper or Plastic?

I don’t know how you spent your weekend, but I enjoyed a hot, stressful day of moving my belongings from one home to another. As many of my friends will…

Mitten Maker: THE PHOTOS!

As Steph put it, we had a great time. Why not add some photo magic to the reflection?! Adrienne, Bethany and I look hot in this photo- LITERALLY. This place…

Project Crawl: July 4th Revisited

Ok, ok. Here are some crafts for the Fourth. They’re courtesy of Martha Stewart. Something tells me the hip cats don’t make too many tube dresses out of old flags……

Project Crawl: Independence Baked Goods

Baking? I thought this blog was about crafting?!” Fear not, faithful readers. This week’s Project Crawl is just a little different in honor of our nation’s birth. And because it’s…