This Saturday come take a crafty break, during Crafty Bastards, and sit down with us at the Hello Craft booth (#76!) and Make Something Awesome.
This fun make and take area is where you can try your hand a making some of the instructed craft projects, or go crazy and use the supplies and come [...]

UPDATE: Congrats to shellcoates! We will be contacting you soon for your information.
I’ve never truly been a fan of paper crafts. I’m not a scrap booker and never will be. I also got tired of hurting my hand with the x-acto knife that was a constant tool in my employ throughout college. So needless [...]

UPDATE: Here is the audio from today’s show: http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_detail.php?siteId=9911221 We encourage you to have a listen and stop by this Saturday, October 2 to the seventh annual Crafty Bastards, Arts and Crafts Fair!
If you’re in the WAMU listening area, tune in at 1 p.m. today and hear some of the “Crafty Bastards” on the Kojo [...]

Dudes of Craft is the Hello Craft series from Keli Anaya exploring the mysterious world of men who craft.
This week, I present a profile for one of Crafty Bastards‘ demonstrators, DC Men Knit.
These guys are really awesome, no joke. I went to one of their get togethers and fit right in.  Some were crocheting [...]

The Crafty Bastards Arts and Crafts Fair, powered by Hello Craft, is next Saturday, October 2 in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington DC. This year Etsy is giving some awesome prize packages to the winners of the Craftiest Bastard contest.
The three vendors with the most votes cast in their favor will be awarded one [...]

Hello, all. My name is Claire and I am a new member of the Hello Craft blogging team.  I’m always interested in discovering and learning about slightly unconventional methods for making things. What’s even better is if there is a great story or tradition behind that method. So when I came across punch needling while [...]