Do you live anywhere near Petaluma, CA? Then I hope you’ll come by this Saturday’s Mafia Made Holiday Craftacular (presented by the Petaluma Craft Mafia), where CRAFT will have a booth! There will be indie craft vendors, musical performances and more. Mafia Made Holiday Craftacular Saturday, December 13, 11am-5pm @ Petaluma Veteran’s Hall 1094 Petaluma […]
City of Craft happens this weekend in Toronto, so if you’re nearby be sure to check it out for loads of handmade fun. There will be dozens of vendors displaying their goods, and a host of other fun activities available. To quote their website: *FREE STUFF ALERT: the first one hundred visitors will receive swag […]
Last night Faith Hale and Tanis Gray, the editors of knit.1 magazine treated a small group to a preview of the Fall/Winter issue of the magazine. They brought the sweaters from the issue and shared some interesting anecdotes about the life of a knitting magazine editor including last minute knitting for photo shoots. I guess […]
The new incarnation of Handmade Music will be causing a ruckus this evening @ 3rd Ward in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn. If you’re in the area, be sure to stop on by and check out the fruits of sound-maker labors – and if you have a project to be heard, be sure to bring it along! […]
The Chaos Communication Congress recently highlighted some of the projects you can build at their upcoming (12/27 – 12/30) event: Even if you’ve never touched a soldering iron, you can drop by the Hardware Hacking Area and get into doing cool things with microcontrollers! Build something that relaxes your brain, turns off annoying tvs with […]
I wish I could go to this. Check out this panel at the New Museum this Friday: CRAFT HACKERS Rhizome.org panel discussion Fri, Dec 12, 2008 | 7:30 PM New Museum of Contemporary Art Craft Hackers is a panel discussion among artists who use crafting techniques to explore high-tech culture and the relationship between needlework […]
Yury Gitman teaches a class about incorporating electronics into toys, he calls it “Making Toys: Playful Experience Design Through Interactive and Wireless Techniques.” This semester they’re having a public open house to showcase (and play with) the toys they’ve created during the course. There’s RFID, Arduino, and included source code. If you’re in New York, […]
