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.

Project Crawl: On the Record

I’m a record collector and probably spend a little too much on near-mint copies of The Shirelles finest recordings, so I’m always a little queasy about taking top-notch platters and…

Krafty Kids: Reware Vintage

Looking for a Prince T-shirt from his 1984 “Purple Rain” tour? What about a skirt from the ’60s revamped for today’s vintage-lovin’ fashionista? If it’s vintage and it’s fabulous, Reware…

FYI: Talkin’ trash

Looking for some potential crafting supplies, but short on cash? No problem. Clean out your truck and head over to Birmingham for the city’s bi-annual “Bulky Pick-up Week.” What? You…

Thursday Project Crawl: T-shirts Revisited

Slowly but surely, the sun is shining here in Michigan and with warmer weather means lighter layers. In other words … Time to bring those T-shirts out of hiding and…

FYI: Crafting on television

Set your TiVo now! ::if you have one, that is:: The show we’ve all been waiting for (Ok, maybe I’m the only one who’s really been waiting for this) debuts…

Handmade Detroit: Out and About

Handmade Detroit members Adrienne, Stephanie and Lish (yours truly) set up shop at the Belmont in Hamtramck Wednesday night to promote HD’s activities and continue raising money for the fair…

Thursday Project Crawl: Tin Can Alley

Spring has sprung! If you’re like me, you spent this past colder-than-cold Michigan winter trying to stay warm the best way possible: eating lots of soup. And with soup consumption…

Krafty Kids: April Fool

I first bought an April Fool pin last year back at Henrietta Farenheit’s old Ann Arbor location. It talked about Detroit luv, so I was hooked. Since then I’ve been…

Project Crawl Thursday: Photos galore!

“Kodachroooooome…” Paul Simon had it right: Kodachrome is where it’s at! Hmm. Wait a minute. That might have been the case 30 years ago, but nowadays we’re living in a…