Archive for July, 2009

Field Trip! Biggs and Featherbelle Factory Tour

Monday, July 20, 2009 6:01 View Comments

Introducing Hello Craft’s newest event, the Field Trip!
Take a trip or two with Hello Craft to visit crafters, classrooms, warehouses, shops and more. We’re taking a trip every month or so to various crafting hubs where you’ll meet people who inspire us, and have something new to teach you too.
Next Field Trip: Biggs and Featherbelle [...]

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Wanted: Volunteers for Crafty Bastards!

Monday, July 13, 2009 9:00 View Comments

Supporters of the handmade movement unite!  The Crafty Bastards Arts & Crafts Fair is looking for volunteers to help us put on a spectacular event for both the public and our vendors.

Join a dedicated group of crafty individuals, and be part of a community event that is now celebrating it’s 6th year as one of [...]

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Inside the Crafty Jury

Saturday, July 11, 2009 2:03 View Comments

The call for Crafty Bastards Arts and Crafts Fair vendors is over, and now the Crafty Jury (which includes the Directors of Hello Craft),
is gearing up to review the plethora of vendor applications that we received.
With more than 450 individual applications to review and only 150 vendor spots to fill, the Crafty Jury is [...]

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domesticity in darkness.

Thursday, July 9, 2009 14:10 View Comments

Mop

Exposed
Betsy Timmer’s work astounds, amazes, and creates extreme revulsion and extreme compassion in me as a viewer.  Her fiber sculptures explore the body and the role of the female in a simultaneously whimsical and grotesque way.  In her most recent series embodiment she re-creates everyday household objects through the form of the human body.

Table legs
The [...]

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Yudu FAIL!

Friday, July 3, 2009 6:02 View Comments

Elise of Argyle Whale reviews the Yudu and finds herself befuddled.

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Meet Elise of Argyle Whale

Thursday, July 2, 2009 7:00 View Comments

Hello Craft!
I just wanted to introduce myself as a new contributor to the Hello Craft blog. I’m Elise Towle Snow and some of you may recognize me as Argyle Whale or as the rotund brown bunny wearing a blue scarf who serves as my mascot.
I live in Salem, Massachusetts and enjoy the company of my [...]

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