Name: Silke Stoddard
Job Title: Deputy Editor Crafts & Holiday
Date Started at company: February 1997, Martha by Mail
First Story: MbM beaded snowflake kit
Hometown: Wuppertal Germany
Education: Parsons School of Design, Fashion Design
First Job: Knitwear Design assistant to Yuca Designstudio, Hamburg Germany
Astrological sign: Capricorn
Personal crafting/artwork: I used to have my own swimwear company Blu; now I knit while I watch my kids at soccer, taekwondo and swimming classes.
First craft memory: Making homemade glue with Grandmother at age 4. I was annoyed then at her being so frugal, now I appreciate the ability to craft with simple materials.
Things you collect: Wilhelm Wagenfeld vases
FAVORITE . . .
Color (Pantone): true indigo blue #540U
Holiday: Christmas
Pizza topping: Spinach
Type of fabric: anything handspun, handwoven, handknit, or handfelted of natural materials
Dessert: Pflaumenkuchen (sort of like a plum pizza) with cinnamon sugar and whipped cream
It isn’t often that I find the time to do the projects we produce for the magazine for my personal life , as I’m always too busy developing the next story (yes, that is Thanksgiving 2010 for me). But today I decided to take the 15 minutes it would take to decorate my own house …
Buttons seem to be the part that designers skimp on first …. what a shame. It has such an impact !
So more often than not when I buy a piece of clothing, the first thing I do is to change the buttons. Most recently I replaced the plastic molded hideous shank buttons on an inexpensive …
photo by Charles R Rushton
Agnes Martin is hardly a new artist I’m introducing … but still I wanted to talk about her on this blog, since she is one of my most favorite painters ever. I very much remember the retrospective 1992 at the Whitney Museum in New York. I can’t even recall how …
In Germany, where I spent most of my school days, it is tradition to get a ‘Schultuete’ for your first day of entering Elementary school in first grade. Those cones are filled with candy, new pencils, stickers … it is the most exciting thing ever for a 6 year old.
My children are no longer first …
When I was cleaning off my bulletin board to make room for the new school year, I realized that my little magnets I had developed for the ’sticks and stones’ story, were never shown in the magazine, but are a nice quick project to make.
I simply painted little pebbles I had collected on the …
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia will be hosting a holiday craft sale in New York City on December 5th.
