A peek at this week's crafty calendar.

 This show features a cheat sheet for bust shaping using short rows and a conversation with a knitter who aspires to help your next sweater fit.

This week's Math4Knitters features a cheat sheet for short-row bust shaping and a conversation with a potential (self-proclaimed) math monkey. And, Crafty Living's Joyce shares a badly executed project.

Here are some free, local knitting classes available for this summer.

Seriously, these trips are worth the trouble.

I reveal, again, that I am not as smart as I want to look.

A peek at this week's calendar.

 This week's show includes quick-knit dusting cloth and a conversation with Sivia Harding.

So summer’s nearly here (or at least, summer break is nearly here), and you might be wondering how to keep the kids busy during this time.Well, it’s a perfect time to get them interested in crafting. Why?

Let's talk cleanliness with a photo (and link) for a bath puff and a quick-knit duster.

Application deadline to become part of Indiana Artisan group approaching

This week's small moment of...awkward. Or, actually, next week's probable awkward moment.

The Fort Wayne Parks and Recreation Department offers scholarships for certain children.

A friend who teaches at Woodside sent this to me and I thought I'd share with my arts and crafts readers.

I really shouldn't have, but I'm glad I did.

This is a peek at this week's events.

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This week we talk about a first doily and this week's Math4Knitters Crafty Living, which is all about buttons.

Do you craft with your children? Then we want to talk to you

There are times when you get to see your work unfold, and it is always exciting.

This is taking up most of my "spare" time this week. It may be, next week, too.

This is my mini-rant on buttons and button positioning.

This is a glimpse of what's on the Crafty Calendar this week.

Like just about everyone else, I’ve always bought my washcloths and dishcloths in the respective departments in superstores.

 In this show, I introduce my wash/dish/anycloth series and have a conversation with a lace knitter, Matthew Wergeland.

This week, we're talking cleaning, specifically using your knit and crochet skills to make your own cleaning cloths.

You could win a gift certificate in this contest sponsored by the national craft retailer

Today I'm wearing a shawl I made a few years ago. It's the Free & Easy Pie Wedge Shawl, which is free on the ball band of Lorna's Laces Helen's Lace yarn.

Here is a chance to enter a design contest.

This is a glance at this week's calendar. For more, please see the link in the upper-left-hand corner of the Crafty Living page.

 In this show, I talk a little more about spiral rib stitch, learn about a fiber event coming up in Fort Wayne later in the week, and share a cheat sheet for waist shaping.

The subtitle of the new “Martha Stewart’s Encyclopedia of Sewing and Fabric Crafts” is “Basic techniques for sewing, appliqué, embroidery, quilting, dyeing and printing.”And pressing. Don’t forget the pressing.