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.

Your News at 11 p.m.

Hey, kids! The Detroit Urban Craft Fair is rolling right along. Here’s what’s going on… The Majestic has the fair date as part of their upcoming events and that brings…

Handmade Detroit and Council C have done it again

CouncilC has kindly posted my ::Lish:: latest craft article! Make sure to check them out, as they’re a great group of people and have all sorts of nifty stuff to…

Support your local businesses

I stopped by Acme Mercantile in Ann Arbor today, a great knick-knack shop on Liberty downtown. The story really does have all sorts of kitschy treats, so I highly recommend…

Project Crawl: Kites!

You know the song. “Let’s go fly a kite and send it soaring!” Musicals aside, flying kites is a lost art, if you ask me. It’s May. It’s actually nice…

Check it out!

For all us crafty, tech-smart ladies, a great Web page to reference! Worth a good read and a bookmark! PopGadget

Project Crawl: Mama mia!

Whoa! Mother’s Day is May 14?! How did that happen! Yikes. It’s time to make a gift … quickly. Try these ideas to make any mom prouder than punch this…

Time to apply!

Have you been meaning to apply to the Detroit Urban Craft Fair but haven’t gotten around to it yet? Well, stop wasting time and start applying! The deadline is May…

Book Review: ‘Tease’

JUST THE FACTS, MA’AM Tease Sarah Sockit, editor Penguin Books, April 2006, 176 pages $15.95 It seems like T-shirts are the DIY reconstuctors’ object of choice these days. Maybe it’s…

Project Crawl: Office Tech Trash

Talk about living in a digital world. Gone are the days of saving book reports on big floppies, recording the season finale of Growing Pains on a video tape and…

Project Crawl: The Chopping Block

Chopsticks. If you pick up your favorite take-out on a regular basis, chances are you have a few extra pairs of these utensils lying around. However, don’t throw them out…