Craft-making grows in popularity among young artisans

Erika Kern is not quite Martha Stewart. The 33-year-old from Bakersfield has, however, stitched up cloth portraits of the domestic diva. Kern has also painted, printed and sewn hundreds of patchwork robots and felt log pillows sold for $45 online -- and in the process pieced together a living as a full-time "maker," the Facebook-generation term for do-it-yourselfer.

By David Keeps > > >

November 22, 2008