While you grade papers, or wash the dishes, or eat your lunch, or walk home from school at night, you can listen to craft news (the CPSIA, although delayed, is still a big deal), craft opinion (which type of knitting needles are the best?) and interviews with other crafty people (Alicia Paulson has a lot of interesting things to say about the process of writing a craft how-to book). I heart podcasts. Podcasts are short programs online, audio or video, produced by a organization (like Craft Magazine’s video podcast) or self-published (like the CraftLit podcast). You can stream podcasts or download them to your computer or mp3 player, and subscribe to them to have them downloaded automatically. My personal favorite type of podcast is the interview format: Listening to an hour-long interview with some crafty celebrity whose blog I follow, or whose book I love, and hearing them thoughtfully answer thoughtful questions about their creative process, or the development of their technique, is fascinating to me. If that’s not quite your cup of tea, however, there are aplenty more crafty podcasts out in the world. Here are some of my favorites:
Craft Borg Craft Magazine Craftcast CraftSanity Crafty Pod Grandma’s Sewing Cabinet Material Mama Podcast Sew Forth Now Stitch It! Threadbanger
For most of these, you can access their podcasts either through their web sites or through the Podcasts function on a media player like iTunes, which will also let you search podcasts by category. How rockin’ would a Crafting a Green World podcast be?
