Second Storie Indie Market is announcing their call for entries for their 2009 event. This year Second Storie will host its event at Visual Studies Workshop on Saturday and Sunday November 28-29. Deadline to apply is August 17. For more information visit secondstorie.net, and stay in the loop on their blog.
Notemaker design competition for amateur, professional or design students: design your own embossed cover for an 18 month Moleskine Diary. The winning designer gets to see their winning design printed onto the cover of a limited edition series of Moleskine diaries on sale at NoteMaker plus they win an iPod Nano. More information on entering here.
Sewing machine review site are looking for honest sewing machine reviews by people who use their machine frequently. review your sewing machine by 1 May 1, and win a $25 Amazon gift card.
living creatively create a tote [bag] competition: Email community@livingcreatively.com.au a few hi res photos of your tote bag and tell them how you made it. Not sure about dates – go here to find out more.
congrats to Rosa Pomar – looks like she won Read it here
Reader Marcia’s daughter’s school in Chicago, IL, is looking for donated fabric scraps with the primary colors in the fabric being those of the rainbow–red, yellow, orange, green, blue, purple – to tie around the school’s fence in recognition of gay pride month [June]. If you can help Marcia’s school out – please email patandmarcia[AT]hotmail.com
easter tutorial: Chickummyjig – now in french translation Lavender and limes has made these chickummyjig’s – if you have made one – would love to see – please email me the link to your post or an image. whipup[at]gmail.com [thanks to pattern designer Tania from Myrtle & Eunice]
Apron giveaway - three winners have been chosen and notified – please contact brassymeg[AT]gmail.com if you are one of these winners.
Carla: I would cook in one- I know that is only one- but I guess I could also play waitress for the kids
Stitchminx: My favourite things to do in a Haute Couture apron would be 1. some delicously hot cooking! Less spills of course. and 2. delightful baking of tea cakes to impress my friends with! I may make a mess in the kitchen, but I’d look so elegant in a New Apron! Thanks for letting me enter. Rgds, Stitchminx
Rosa: I like to tie my hair up in a gingham ‘kerchief like the good old housewifes and then I either bake or I just sit around the house pretending to be from the 1950s and wishing I was…
Brassy apple is offering three whipup readers a copy of her haute hostess apron.
You have three days to enter and then three readers will be picked at random. To make it more interesting please leave a comment (consider this your entry) and tell us two things you like to do while wearing an apron.
Three winners will be chosen and announced – winners will receive a handmade apron and not a pattern as previously said – sorry for the inconvenience.
listen to Pip from meatmeatmikes talk about the modern craft movement on radio – and more here.
Download the Quick Garden Gloves pattern from Weekend Sewing.
Splendid 2009 is seeking agents of creative change for 3 weeks of bending art forms and collaboration to create new works for 2010 Splendour in the Grass festival. Splendid is a residential arts laboratory for those interested in cross-artform practice, designed to allow for a diverse range of artists to intersect, exchange and unfold ideas. Splendid is open to young and emerging artists – Applications due: 4pm Monday 4 May 2009. INFO
Craft 2.0 continues with the 2009 Easter edition bouncing into TheNewDowse (New Zealand) on Saturday 11 April. Celebrating its 3rd birthday, Craft2.0 throws off the babygrow to explore new territory, just like any other cute and adventurous toddler. blog
Great idea for new collaborative blog love this new collaborative blog – share your crafts gone wrong. Craft fail.
The AntiCraft new issue is out
crafts events editor for craft gossip blog.
Pillowcase Challenge Contest! at Lark books: Three lucky winners will receive a copy of Craft Challenge- Dozens of Ways to Repurpose a Pillowcase and 9 more of Lark’s newest, most indie-wonderful craft titles. Find out more here:
The Amazing Recycled Crafts Contest at FamilyFun.com [via ecochild's play] Turn your litter into glitter, to be in the running for a chance to win a computer and more – info here.
Sock Summit 2009 is a one of a kind conference for handknitters, that explores the humble art form known as the human sock. Celebrate the diversity of sock knitting. Aug 6-9 Portland Oregon – start planning now – Registration for the Sock Summit is planned for sometime in the month of May – stay tuned.
Urban craft uprising – apply now.
The new word in scrap quilting is selvedges.
Denyse Schmidt’s Single Girl Quilt available at pottery barn - or make it yourself – pattern available. [via]
The latest issue of down under quilts is available – subscribe to the online issue for free.
Hoppo bumpo seam along looks fantastic.
Get excited and make things – poster
behind the scenes birdhouse booklets and poppytalk handmade.
Whipup.net reports that Oililiy has been producing dolls very similar to those made by Portuguese designer Rosa Pomar. Join the facebook group.
The HBO Shop in New York City recently commissioned Natalie Chanin, author of Alabama Stitch Book, to design limited-edition, embellished T-shirts. STC Craft is offering a T-shirt as a giveaway, along with one STC Craft book of your choosing. Here for all all the info on how to enter.
Summit of Awesome comes to Washington, DC. (MidCity, Washington, D.C.) On Friday, May 1st, Hello Craft will host its first ever Summit of Awesome. Geared specifically for independent artists and crafters, the Summit of Awesome is 3 days of seminars and
hands-on workshops, which will provide business and technical education for those in the handmade arts community. The Summit also includes the D.C. premiere showing of the Indie Craft Documentary film. More information or to register go to the Hello Craft website.
Art from the heart – 2 day artist retreat at Bundanon – Arthur Boyd’s artist retreat. 25-26 April. Places are limited contact details (Au) 02 42296232. Accommodation is at Riversdale an award winning building by architect Glenn Murcutt – it recently won the American Institute of Architects 2009 Gold Medal.
The American Craft Council is now accepting AltCraft applications for our show in San Francisco. Show dates are August 14-16. The average booth is valued at $1,000 but as part of the Council’s commitment to indie crafters, the cost of participation is just $350. The deadline is Monday, April 27. Send submissions and inquiries to Erika at altcraft@craftcouncil.org.
There’s an exciting online auction taking place at the moment. It’s called BEG, STEAL OR BORROW and its being held by the
final year Graphic Communication students over at The University for the Creative Arts, Farnham. Auction ends on the 30 March. View slots here : bid here.
RedBubble announced that 67 of the artists on the website had raised a total of $3,350 for the Red Cross bushfire appeal through sales of their works, many of which were specially created for the Phoenix Appeal. This was matched by RedBubble for a total for $6,700 for victims of the bushfires.
Fabric designers the SistersGulassa are offering a giveaway of a stack of fat quarters of their Lulu Collection.
Thirteen fiber artists participating in Beyond The Fringe: A fine fiber art exhibition – at The Stables Gallery, Taos, NM April 3, 2009 through April 7, 2009.
Shop Live with Rosie O’Donnell at the storque.
continue the Heather Ross blog tour with house on the hill.
The New Deal Fashion Show & Hand Made Market presented by Edge of Urge May 9th, 2009 at the New Hanover Center – indie designers invited to apply as a potential clothing designer or hand made vendor at the New Deal Fashion Show & Hand Made Market. The fashion show theme is utilitarianism and necessity becoming fashionable.
new kids craft weekly is out – the theme is leaves – heaps of great ideas in here.
9 major British galleries and museums on a new social media project called Creative Spaces: throwing open the collections of: The V&A, British Museum, Tate, National Portrait Gallery, Natural History Museum, Sir John Soane’s Museum, Royal Armouries, The Wallace Collection and the Imperial War Museum. Visitors to the site can search all the collections at once. Creative Spaces: Check out this nonprofit, public sector project, where for the the first time national museums have collaborated in an online resource.
Repurposeful is giving away a cool, vintage-style silver necklace. Go check it out and leave a comment if you want to win!
New program for artistic students that is being hosted by Threadless called “Threadless 101: Find out more here
The idea is this: students (anyone from middle school to college is eligible) are given an assignment in their class to create an original design for a tee-shirt. Their designs are critiqued and voted for by their classmates. Once the assignment is completed and the winning design has been selected for the class, students can upload their design to the Threadless site to be included in the regular design challenge to get their tee actually printed. If their design is selected, they will receive a $3,000 tax-free scholarship and $500 each time their tee-shirt is re-printed. DESIGN OF THE YEAR winners can collect an addition 20k!
Indie Fixx latest project: Feed Your Soul: the free art project. Every month Indie Fixx will share art from artists invited to participate.
The latest kids craft weekly is out and its all about glitter!
Find out more about the stitches and craft show in Melbourne and Sydney.
Bake It Pretty shop is giving away three $25 gift cards to their shop – go to this post to find out more and enter.
win a crafty chica sewing machine – go to this post at craftzine to find out more and to be in the running to win.
New issue of Down Under Quilts magazine is now out – get your free online subscription here.
