Hi, I'm Kelly Wilkinson. A journalist, craft designer and somewhat reluctant blogger.

I report and anchor for the NPR affiliate here in San Francisco, write a monthtly craft column for The Washington Post, and have created projects featured in magazines and websites including Sunset, Country Living, Design*Sponge and Apartment Therapy.

But before that, I grew up in a renovated barn where we rolled back rugs to go roller-skating, always made our Halloween costumes out of big brown boxes, and had a table saw on the second floor until I was in high school. I can't fit one of those in our apartment now, but I do stuff a sewing machine, silkscreening gear, reams of pretty paper and piles of fabric into our hall closet.

Thanks for stopping by, and please feel free to drop me a line. Writing an open, ongoing letter to the world can still feel kind of weird, so please don't be shy supplying the other side of the conversation: kellyatmakegrowgatherdotcom.