Join Lark books fun quilting contest – quilters have to incorporate 3 of 5 preselected elements: bird/s, silver, mountains, repurposed fabric, and beads – here is more information …
Thread Heads were challenged this month by the Janome Sewing Machine Contest. To win, viewers had to send in one of two videos – either explaining why they need a sewing machine or their best DIY tutorial.
The response was incredible with over a hundred submissions from extremely talented and devoted DIY-ists from all over the world. Threadbanger dedicated an entire week to showing their videos and in the end gave away three sewing machines instead of just two.
The talented winners were Mateusz Krol in Poland, Georgeanna Hall in Korea, and Zachary Hutchinson and Kearsten Hall from the U.S.A. For those who didn’t win or enter, the Threadbanger sewing machines are available on the Threadbanger website under Sewing Machines.
Contest entries: Tuesday: Janome Sewing Machine Contest Submission: Thursday: Viewer Lesson: How to Make a Zipper Shirt: Friday: Janome Contest Winners: How to Make a Rad Shirt:
From Kendra at Threadbanger
Get cracking and enter! Deadline, 18 September. Link.
There’s also a give-away for a half-page color ad to the website that refers the most visitors to venuszine between 1 September to 15 October. Link.
This week on Threadbanger, they bring back the Compai Sisters, the creators of the 99 Ways Book Series (Rock Your Scarf
Look out for more posts by Kendra – production assistant at threadbanger.
I don’t know how I haven’t seen anything about this before, must have been walking around with my eyes shut :) Anyhow, an awesome sock designing contest, there’s over USD$20,000 prize money, with USD$6000 for the winner! Yep you heard right. There is a plethora of information over at the site and there’s also a blog. Ends 1 January 2009. Link, and blog.
Etsy is having a Yart (Yard-Art) Sale starting Wednesday, June 11 to Friday, June 20 – To find items on sale type the word “yart” and whatever you are interested in ( i.e. “necklace”) into the search engine and you will find many items. ( At the last count there were about 400 participating stores.)
Thank you Hallmark magazine for the write up – check out their ‘things we make’ section.
MindBites Spread the Craft contest! – they are extending the deadline for the contest, – the new deadline for submission is July 21st. This will give an additional 4 weeks to shoot crafty videos! The winners will now be announced on August 5th.
check out the naughty secretary entry – and voting is now open
How to contact retailers that might want to carry your handmade products. LINK from sew betty.
Call for illustrators: Alabama Chanin is seeking an illustrator for our upcoming book: Alabama Studio Style. The illustration style should closely follow the style set forth in Alabama Stitch Book. LINK (thanks Ina for the link)
SWAP: Hand printed fabric swap – each person wanting to join in contacts each other person they’d like to swap with, and arranges to swap a 20 cm square swatch of handprinted fabric. When you’ve collected enough pieces, you can sew them together to make a blogger/printer quilt. LINK
On the 23rd of this month The Crafty Crow is going to be three months old! To celebrate…they are having a funny food contest! find out more LINK
And the winners of a set of four mixtape zines are: Laura, Heather, Meri and Deb Ferguson you will be contacted shortly by the mixtape girls.
