1. What does the Church of Craft mean to you?
The Church is a place where I can be with my friends, meet some new ones and have fun, all under the auspices of creating things.

2. Why do you attend the monthly gatherings of the Church of Craft?
For me it's important to have a group with whom I can talk and share ideas.

3. Why is making things important to you?
It's what gets me through my days and nights. Without it, I assure you, I would be quite lost in the world.

4. Do you see the Church as spiritual?
It is spiritual because it is natural. That is, it is what we all dearly love to do.

Do you see the Church as political?
It is political because we have taken up the means of production.

5. Do you think making things is meditative?
It is meditative to me because when I get into crafting I am communing with nature. That is, I am putting my mind and actions into practice, I have my hands in the world, doing something I hope will be good.

Do you think making things is healing?
Has it healed me? Crafting, in a larger sense, which includes all creative endeavors, was the only way I could get through some hard times. It was all I could do but try to make something of all the terrible thoughts I had. That way I could see all of it in a different way.

6. What are your thoughts on the "revival" of the "female craft arts" such as knitting and crocheting?
I assume the quotation marks are to call attention to a certain dubiousness about the way the media has portrayed recent crafting trends. All that aside, I think there are some people who want to get back something that has a certain feel to it -- a kindness and warmth that is tangible. What could be warmer or kinder that a homemade pair of socks? And, you don't need them in cyberspace, because the wind doesn't blow.

7. Has your life changed since you started gathering with the Church of Craft? If so, how did it change?
My life has changed because I have become closer to my crafting friends, and those friends have inspired to continue with endeavors that I felt unsure about -- that's not something easy to find.

8. What would you like to see happen in the future with the Church of Craft?
Big cash, I mean, lots of money. Okay I'm joking. I think it's going along
just fine. I would say a nice photo album or annual zine could be fun.