Crafting A Life

Heather Ordover

After leaving the high school classroom Ordover has written online content for Pearson's CD-ROM Elements of Grammar, Teacher's Notes for Scholastic's Literary Cavalcade, and several online masters-level courses in education for Kaplan Online University. Along with writing for education, Ordover has written and recorded essays for Cast-On: A Podcast for Knitters and currently hosts her own long-running online podcast, CraftLit: A Podcast for Crafters Who Love Books (think "books on tape with benefits"). Her crafty writing has appeared in Interweave Online's Sockupied, Spin-Off (2008, 2009), WeaveZine, Big Apple Parent, and The Arizona Daily Star. She currently teaches writing at the University of Arizona in Tucson, where she lives with her wonderful husband, her two goofy sons, their vigilant dogs, and a single, mournful, blue tongued skink.

Soon they will all be in Alexandria, Virginia (or the surrounding environs).

Bookishness

• • What Would Madame Defarge Knit?, Knit and Crochet Creations Inspired by Classic Characters
  
• • Knitting Socks from Around the World—Finnish sock pattern for Fall 2010 publication; matching hat, mitten, scarf for 2011 publications. Socks on cover are mine.
  

Bloggishness

• • Craftlit, podcast show notes
  
• • Crafting Blog
  
• • Thing 2's Microtia Adventure

HSLAPS 9/11 Experiences

• • 9/11 — My Day
• • 9/11 — Pictures
• • 9/11 Teacher Poem
• • students' stories

Online Articles

• • Lime-n-Violet's Daily Chum
  
• • Weavezine, "Weave 1, Knit 1"
  
• • Spin-Off, Winter 2008
  
• • Spin-Off, Winter 2009
  

Education Writing

• • Scholastic, Literary Cavalcade Clips
  
• • Students Taking the Lead; Chapter on Teaching Leadership for Jossy-Bass
  
• • Scholarly work from Master's Thesis
  
• • Big Apple Parent--Hybrid Article