Odd Hours is an archival research and mail art project examining the craft-income advertisements found in McCall's Needlework & Crafts and other mid-century American needlework magazines — ads that promised women they could earn a living from their hands, in spare time, without leaving home, as though the invisible labor already filling those hours had no weight or cost. The project traces the ideology embedded in that promise across sixty years, from the back pages of 1960s craft magazines to the gig economy platforms of today, asking why the promise persists despite being built on the same foundation: the assumption that women's time, skill, and domestic labor are infinitely available and structurally worthless. As part of the research, letters are being mailed to the original advertised addresses — an act of futility that replicates exactly the condition of the women who first tore out those coupons, laboring in odd hours toward a compensation that was never coming.