Title is pretty self explanatory. I've noticed that pressing Escape will close EVERY other window in the game - character, inventory, Lutefisk cube - but not the crafting pane. I can't imagine that this would be intentional. If it is, I'm curious as to what the reasoning is.
actually, for cheat crafting it's kind of handy. I was making a mechanical axe or clockwork axe or whatever. Every time I made it has different enchantments. I just left it open, save and quit, load autosave and try again every time. The craft window stayed open between load and close so I just clicked Craft and opened inventory to see what worthless enchantment I got each time. Took a long time to get something decent, as always.