In the weekend I went to the innaugural Art Jam at Section 8 Bar (yip, same place where we have the craft cartel markets). Art Jam is a giant DiY fest.
We provide the materials - you provide the creativity
It will be like the bastard love child of the Iron Chef & Melbourne’s fartsiest artsiest scenesters - a little bit freaky looking but nonetheless deserving of our unconditional love.
And there’s prizes!
Each week there’s a mystery object which needs to be included. This week it was a condom.
let me introduce you to one of the stall holders at the Melbourne Craft Cartel Market. Dan is the man and he has a label called Nearly Roadkill.
Nearly Roadkill is a bag and accessory label established in 2006 by Dan Vaughan. The bags are made out of recycled car uphoistery, just saved from their [...]
I’m in the middle of working on a pile of new cross stitch patterns to turn into kits. It’s pretty exciting! I started off with a few designs to see if any of you out there in the intyweb would like them. And combining internet sales and craft cartel sales, I’ve only [...]
OK so next year I’m going to be a bridesmaid (weee!) for two of my best friends. And the bride has decided that since I’m a crafty one that I should be in charge of making things for the bridal party to wear.
EEK!
I have been posted instructions and materials. I need to crochet [...]
The new version of the “I sublimate my rage…” cross stitch is progressing. I’ve got a lot left to do, but here’s a sneak peek:
I was chatting to a friend of mine the other day and somehow the topic of Oprah came up. We’re both newish mama’s so I guess it had to happen some day. Anyway we were discussing this one particular episode which was about empowerment and my friend told me that Oprah referred to [...]
I can’t believe I haven’t seen these before but this guy called Craig Robinson at flipflopflyin.com (check out the dancing owls. Seriously.) does these wee pixel portraits of celebrities called minipops. There’s thousands of them. They even have their own book apparently.
This is The Datsuns in all their minipop glory
Awww, ain’t they cute?
So [...]
I know you all love this time of the year. Luckily for us Julie at Subversive Cross Stitch has paired up with animator Natalie Dee to create these truly awesome Valentines doilies for you all to cross stitch.
Personally the ‘thank god..’ one is my favourite. I think every woman has spent a Valentines [...]
I’m sorry I’ve been a bit slack on sharing all my handmade christmas stories with you all. So just to drag it out even more, I’m going to do it in pieces.
This pillow was a present for Tara made by my partner’s stepmum, otherwise known as Pen Pen. It’s beautifully stitched and it must have [...]
Lately the saying ‘one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter’ has been coming to mind a fair bit. Ignoring the gender stupidity of that statement, I finally got motivated to make something in that vein. Actually I made this a little while ago but haven’t gotten around to posting this until now.
So [...]
OK here’s a pattern for you die-hard bogans. It’s a wee bit of work but if you start with black fabric it would dramatically reduce the amount of work to do and it will look very, very cool.
This came from obsolete on the craftster forums and I think it is so way cool. It [...]
OK so the wee one is seriously on the move now. She can get from one end of the house to the other in about 30 seconds. Whew! So we’ve been sorting our barricades to keep her to one area of the house (and prepare her for anti-summit demos). Luckily for us we have the [...]
This is the one you’ve all been waiting for! Yip, it’s the next cross stitch kit!
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–noun
1. an international syndicate, combine, or trust formed esp. to regulate prices and output in some field of business.
2. a coalition of political or special-interest groups having a common cause, as to encourage the passage of a certain law.
3. a written agreement between belligerents, esp. for the exchange of prisoners.
4. a written challenge to a duel.
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And I’m not talking about me, but my mama!
Check out this cool recycled cork board noticeboard my mum made. It was made out of all the wine corks she collected. She assures me it was a very hard job
It was given as a gift to my uncle and aunty and this [...]
A while back I stumbled across a little idea as to what to do with all my little scraps of embroidery aida fabric . I’ve been embroidering little words and sticking them onto badge backs. I thought it was a mildly interesting idea and worth doing some market research on. So I [...]
Yeah it’s like rent-a-mob but cooler. The Net Granny website is perfect for those of you a) incapable of knitting and b) without a Granny. You simply pick your Granny, pick your pattern and they knit it for you!
I’d been planning a similar idea with the women in my local sewing group but [...]
Mate it went off!
Where were ya?
It even got immortalised in a comic!
A cross stitch I made of a quote from Bitterstitch.com. I’m considering if I should add something more, like a border or something, but I’m not sure. I’m pretty restless at the moment, so we’ll see if I’ll ever do it or just move on to some of the projects I have in mind…
Hello everyone
I hope those of you who allow christmas into your lives had a wonderful day. I hope those of you who don’t also had a wonderful day celebrating the end of all that annoying music for another year.
We had a super day with lots of great presents including some super handmade presents which [...]
"I don't regard myself as an artist. I am a craftsman. Fuck art." - Clifford Harper
