The Meaning of Making – another fantastic event – is a drop-in hands on crafting social, followed by a panel discussion featuring local artists and artisans working in the realm of handmade. This event is free and open to the public. Beer and pizza will be available for a suggested donation.
When and where: Wednesday, April 21 : 4-6:30pm- Drop in Make Something Awesome crafting social (powered by Hello Craft) : 6:30-8pm- panel discussion, The Meaning of Making : At Civilian Art Projects, 1019 7th Street NW DC. Website.
Panelists include: Tom Ashcraft, Artist and Professor of Sculpture at George Mason University; Christine Ernest, founder of Maganda Design; Dana Ayana Greaves, Artist and founder of Artistic Aya clothing and accessories; and Carole Greenwood, chef, artist and musician. Moderator: Betsy Greer, author of Knitting for Good and founder of craftivism.com.
This looks like an amazing event – The Conference of Creative Entrepreneurs (CCE) 3 days of seminars, interactive discussions and hands-on Workshops.
Some highlights include:
- Workshops to learn how to start or expand a creative business (inluding tax info, trade shows and guerrilla marketing).
- Listen to speakers including Jenny Hart of Sublime Stitching, Faythe Lavine, director of Handmade Nation, and Marci Rae McDade, editor or FiberArts Magazine.
- Demonstrations and activities – turn wool into felt fabric, digitally photograph your work like a pro and improve your blog.
When and where: Seattle, Washington from 13-15 August – More information and to register visit the website.
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+ Janome is running a contest called “Pass it On”, which encourages those who love to sew to share their skill with someone new to the craft.
Craft Hope helps to share handmade crafts with those less fortunate. Combining a love for crafting and desire to help others into a project to make a difference around the world. Founded by Jade Sims – craft hope has organised craft projects as far reaching as making toys for orphanages to blankets for homeless shelters. Their most recent project is craft hope for haiti – where they have set up an etsy shop with handcrafted donations and proceeds all being sent to doctors without borders. [Thank you to Holly for letting me know about this great project.]
this beautiful quilt is just one of the items available in the craft hope charity shop.
Oh Fransson is hosting another quilt-along – this time its to make a paintbox quilt – similar to the one pictured below. She is using pre-cut solid fabric rollups which I love – here are all the deets. There is no deadline – but there is a flickr group to post your progress.
