Have you thought about starting a daily project?
Looking around my studio, trying to find inspiration for today’s new daily piece, I see plenty of papers scattered about. I’m a list maker. If you visited my studio you would see a lot of these slips of paper are filled with lists. I make shopping lists, to-do [...]

Hello Craft is excited to be giving away two craft books from the London-based Black Dog Publishing.
Two lucky crafters could win one of the books in the Making Stuff series; Making Stuff: An Alternative Craft Book or Making Stuff for Kids.

Re-released to coincide with the publication of its sequel, Making Stuff has tons of projects [...]

Below are descriptions of the learning sessions, workshops and demos at the Summit of Awesome.  Check the Summit of Awesome schedule for session times, locations and speaker info.
Learning Sessions
Am I a Business? How and when to form a business for your crafty endeavors. Representatives from the Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts will walk you [...]

Talk Shop is the series where we interview independent store owners from across the country, to get the inside scoop on what it takes to run a business that supports the handmade community.

In this Talk Shop, Beth Salvini, co-owner of Greenwich Letterpress in NYC, shares her thoughts on owning a letterpress studio and shop with [...]

Think you might want to make some of your holiday gifts this year? The possiblities are endless, but where should you begin? My advice is to stay away from the craft store as long as possible and check out the internet first. Most pre-packaged craft store “projects” rarely provide you with a finished product that [...]

Each week, the Hello Craft Podcast collects stories of making and buying handmade.
This week, Heather from CROQzine tells us about her first publishing venture.
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Learn how to contribute [...]

Each week, the Hello Craft Podcast collects stories of making and buying handmade.
This week, I talk about my grandfather, John Ross Henry. He was obsessed with making throughout his entire life and it wore off on me.
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Hello Craft and welcome to the trials and tribulations of a crafter new to business. Shall we learn together?
After being relatively crafty all my life, I recently decided that I wanted to make a living out of it and hawk my wares. Sounds simple doesn’t it? Make something, be creative, offer it to the world [...]