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GSLIS alum Alison Cody '08LS is a frequent knitter and crocheter, and participated in a vibrant knitting group during her time at GSLIS. Currently she's been working on some sewing projects. She plans to churn out a whole bunch of box bags (pictured at left) for the holiday season.
This is a traditional counted cross-stitch sampler. It's about 3.5 by 2.25 feet. I started it sometime after we moved to Boston in 1980, and finished it in 1988. If you actually added up the hours, it probably didn't take that many, but it's the kind of thing you pick up and do a little on, and then put aside. I gave it to my mother for her birthday, and when she passed away I brought it home, so it's special to me in several ways. I also do beading and embroidery, but I find counted cross-stitch the most soothing.
GSLIS student Karen Chmielewski is an avid crafter whose
works can be found on her website karenkrafts.com. She makes
needle-felted wool figurines, whereby you turn raw, carded wool
into felt by stabbing a barbed needle into the wool thousands of
times. The photo on the left is of Tom Turkey and some
pumpkins. 
The second photo is of "Maggie," who, Karen says,
"always seemed to me to be a librarian type." Karen also crochets
and takes photos. She has an online shop where she sells her
crafts: karenkrafts.etsy.com.
More than a dozen GSLISers
participated in a group knitting
project to make a baby blanket
for GSLIS staff member Anne
Reid's baby girl, Phoebe.
Participants chose differentcolored
skeins of yarn and knit a
strip of the quilt. Stacie Parillo
crocheted the strips together
and made a border. 
Cindy
Fisher embroidered Phoebe's
name and birthdate, and Lauren
Hruska sewed the border to the
edge of the blanket.