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The Knitted Convenience


Image by urban don
The Knitted Convenience is knitting gone wild for Sydney Design 2009. Organised by the Sydney Powerhouse Museum, the festival has craft and design events across Sydney. One of those was organised by guerrilla knitter grrl+dog. The knitting graffiti took place at Taylor Square, Darlinghurst, at an public toilet. The toilet is unique in the fact it has been closed for thirty years and was the first public toilets in Sydney. This was the men’s toilet that this gang of knitters took on.
I was there to help out, hey, I sleep with the artist so it was a given.
After warm-up coffee all round the activities started. Scaffold, ladders, bags of wool, pins, entertainment, watchers, assistants, supervisors and a couple of homeless people spilled out across Taylor Square.
I managed to capture a few images here. Some were taken by David (seen at the top of structure) and some by grrl+dog.
The Knitted Convenience will stay in place for four weeks. After that the wool will be used for a local homeless charity. How cool is that?
It was great to see this event and be part of it. What was also exciting was to be able to go down into this 1908 toilet block for the first time.
Looks like I will return to take down the piece. I swear I will take more photos of inside! (And of the women’s toilet next door, which is even more fascinating) It may be the last time as council has no intention of doing anything with these buildings.
Worth having a look if you are in Sydney.

New EK Success 13-by-13-Inch Cutter Bee Self-Healing Pink Mat Review

EK Success 13-by-13-Inch Cutter Bee Self-Healing Pink Mat

• Self-Healing Cutting Mat is 13-by-13-inches
• Great for scrapbooking craft projects and much more
• Front side of this mat is great for craft knives and rotary cutters and the back side is stable and durable for a cutting and craft surface
• Made in Taiwan

The Cutter Bee Self-Healing Pink Mat is a 13-inch square mat that is ideal for 12-inch-by-12-inch paper.

List Price: $ 8.19

Price: $ 4.46

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New JanetBasket Blue Floral Eco Bag First Look

JanetBasket Blue Floral Eco Bag

• The ecobag is potentially the ultimate project tote
• Feature large pockets that line the interior sides and ends of the bag
• Bag measures 12 by 18 by 9-inch
• Design: Blue Floral

The EcoBag is potentially the ultimate project tote. The extended zipper opens down the sides of the bag for easy access to entire bag interior. These phenomenal totes feature large pockets that line the interior sides and ends of the bag, bags are lined in coordinating solid nylon fabric, bag bottoms feature large rubber mat corners, the edges have metal supports so the bag can be opened without collapsing making it the perfect tote for the on-the-go crafter and the bag is covered in a durable canvas. Bag measures 12 by 18 by 9-Inch. Available in a variety of JanetBasket unique patterned and solids fabrics. Imported.

List Price: $ 29.99

Price: $ 29.99

Honest Art Bin Solutions Mega tote, Purple Review

Art Bin Solutions Mega tote, Purple

• This mega tote has everything you need to get your beads, baubles, and little bits and pieces organized
• Just unzip the sides of the tote to reveal 6 matching solutions storage boxes with adjustable dividers for customized storage
• Each solutions storage box measures 1-3/4 by 10-3/4 by 7-inch; Tote measures 11 by 11 by 7-1/2-inch

This mega tote has everything you need to get your beads, baubles, and little bits and pieces organized. Just unzip the sides of the tote to reveal 6 matching solutions storage boxes with adjustable dividers for customized storage. The tote itself has a durable nylon fabric with rubber carry handle and adjustable shoulder strap. Each solutions storage box measures 1-3/4 by 10-3/4 by 7-inch. Tote measures 11 by 11 by 7-1/2-inch. Color-purple. Tote is imported solutions boxes made in USA.

List Price: $ 36.99

Price: $ 22.22

Complete Advantus Cropper Hopper Home Center Rolling Cart, 10 Drawer Multi Review

Advantus Cropper Hopper Home Center Rolling Cart, 10 Drawer Multi

• Portable organizers offer a convenient way to arrange and store your work area
• Overall fram is 15-1/4W by 13D
• Includes ten small drawers each 10-1/2W by 14-1/2D by 2-3/4H
• Weighs 19 pounds
• 10 drawers hold a wide assortment of items
• Chrome frame measures 13 inches x 15.25 inches x 37.6 inches tall
• Each sturdy plastic drawer measures 10.5 x 14.5 x 2.75 inches
• High-tech metallic rails and knobs add to appearance
• Swivel casters for easy mobility, 2 locking, 2 non-locking

ADVANTUS-Portable Ten-Drawer Organizer is a convenient way to arrange and store your work area. Features chrome metal frame with chrome drawer pulls. Four swivel casters (two locking) are for easy mobility. Overall frame is 15-1/4W by 13D. Ten small drawers each 10-1/2W by 14-1/2D by 2-3/4H. Height of Rolling Organizer is approximately 37-1/2 high. Shipping weight is 19 pounds. Easy assembly required. Color: Multi. Imported.

List Price: $ 79.95

Price: $ 49.00

Latest The Handmade Marketplace: How to Sell Your Crafts Locally, Globally, and On-Line Review

The Handmade Marketplace: How to Sell Your Crafts Locally, Globally, and On-Line

It’s an exciting new world for crafters. Handmade is hip, creativity is what the market wants, and there are many profitable sales opportunities that didn’t exist a few short years ago. For crafters who have more confidence running a sewing machine than setting up a Web site, The Handmade Marketplace breaks down and makes sense of the global possibilities for marketing and selling crafts.

First, determine the right price for every item — not too expensive and definitely not too cheap. Whether the product is beaded jewelry or felted slippers, illustrations or tote bags, author Kari Chapin helps crafters determine cost of goods, market competition, and the pros and cons of wholesale and retail sales. If the price is right, customers will buy.

Then it’s on to selling. The boom in indie craft fairs and sites such as Etsy (“Your place to buy & sell all things handmade”) is providing artisans with an ever-expanding marketplace for handcrafted items. Chapin demystifies every venue. She explains the guidelines that craft fairs impose on exhibitors, the typical yearly calendar of shows, and how to start a new craft fair.

For the crafter interested in online sales, there are tips on styling and propping crafts for photographs and technical explanations of how the most popular Web marketplaces run. Traditional brick and mortar consignment stores are still very good options for many crafters. Chapin explains how to approach shopkeepers and build strong relationships.

Wrapping everything up with media advice and tips on how to get the word out, The Handmade Marketplace is the sales and marketing bible that today’s crafters need.It’s an exciting new world for crafters. Handmade is hip, creativity is what the market wants, and there are many profitable sales opportunities that didn’t exist a few short years ago. For crafters who have more confidence running a sewing machine than setting up a Web site, The Handmade Marketplace breaks down and makes sense of the global possibilities for marketing and selling crafts.

First, determine the right price for every item — not too expensive and definitely not too cheap. Whether the product is beaded jewelry or felted slippers, illustrations or tote bags, author Kari Chapin helps crafters determine cost of goods, market competition, and the pros and cons of wholesale and retail sales. If the price is right, customers will buy.

Then it’s on to selling. The boom in indie craft fairs and sites such as Etsy (“Your place to buy & sell all things handmade”) is providing artisans with an ever-expanding marketplace for handcrafted items. Chapin demystifies every venue. She explains the guidelines that craft fairs impose on exhibitors, the typical yearly calendar of shows, and how to start a new craft fair.

For the crafter interested in online sales, there are tips on styling and propping crafts for photographs and technical explanations of how the most popular Web marketplaces run. Traditional brick and mortar consignment stores are still very good options for many crafters. Chapin explains how to approach shopkeepers and build strong relationships.

Wrapping everything up with media advice and tips on how to get the word out, The Handmade Marketplace is the sales and marketing bible that today’s crafters need.

List Price: $ 14.95

Price: $ 14.95

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New Pro Art Messenger Art Supply Bag Product Review

Pro Art Messenger Art Supply Bag

• Messenger style bag
• Comes in black
• Holds up to a 14-inch-b-17-inch pad of paper
• Comes with adjustable strap
• Two secure clasp

Pro Art black messenger art supply bag. Art supply carry-all black nylon bag with numerous zipper compartments. Also has an organizer that will store smaller articles. Comes with a removable shoulder strap and is expandable to 4-inch. Bag is 19-inch by 15-inch-b-2-3/4-inch and will hold a 14-inch by 17-inch pad of paper.

List Price: $ 18.99

Price: $ 13.94

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A few nice Arts, Crafts & Sewing images I found:

The Knitted Convenience


Image by urban don
The Knitted Convenience is knitting gone wild for Sydney Design 2009. Organised by the Sydney Powerhouse Museum, the festival has craft and design events across Sydney. One of those was organised by guerrilla knitter grrl+dog. The knitting graffiti took place at Taylor Square, Darlinghurst, at an public toilet. The toilet is unique in the fact it has been closed for thirty years and was the first public toilets in Sydney. This was the men’s toilet that this gang of knitters took on.
I was there to help out, hey, I sleep with the artist so it was a given.
After warm-up coffee all round the activities started. Scaffold, ladders, bags of wool, pins, entertainment, watchers, assistants, supervisors and a couple of homeless people spilled out across Taylor Square.
I managed to capture a few images here. Some were taken by David (seen at the top of structure) and some by grrl+dog.
The Knitted Convenience will stay in place for four weeks. After that the wool will be used for a local homeless charity. How cool is that?
It was great to see this event and be part of it. What was also exciting was to be able to go down into this 1908 toilet block for the first time.
Looks like I will return to take down the piece. I swear I will take more photos of inside! (And of the women’s toilet next door, which is even more fascinating) It may be the last time as council has no intention of doing anything with these buildings.
Worth having a look if you are in Sydney.

The Knitted Convenience


Image by urban don
The Knitted Convenience is knitting gone wild for Sydney Design 2009. Organised by the Sydney Powerhouse Museum, the festival has craft and design events across Sydney. One of those was organised by guerrilla knitter grrl+dog. The knitting graffiti took place at Taylor Square, Darlinghurst, at an public toilet. The toilet is unique in the fact it has been closed for thirty years and was the first public toilets in Sydney. This was the men’s toilet that this gang of knitters took on.
I was there to help out, hey, I sleep with the artist so it was a given.
After warm-up coffee all round the activities started. Scaffold, ladders, bags of wool, pins, entertainment, watchers, assistants, supervisors and a couple of homeless people spilled out across Taylor Square.
I managed to capture a few images here. Some were taken by David (seen at the top of structure) and some by grrl+dog.
The Knitted Convenience will stay in place for four weeks. After that the wool will be used for a local homeless charity. How cool is that?
It was great to see this event and be part of it. What was also exciting was to be able to go down into this 1908 toilet block for the first time.
Looks like I will return to take down the piece. I swear I will take more photos of inside! (And of the women’s toilet next door, which is even more fascinating) It may be the last time as council has no intention of doing anything with these buildings.
Worth having a look if you are in Sydney.

Complete Martha Stewart’s Encyclopedia of Sewing and Fabric Crafts: Basic Techniques for Sewing, Applique, Embroidery, Quilting, Dyeing, and Printing, plus 150 Inspired Projects from A to Z Product Review

Martha Stewart’s Encyclopedia of Sewing and Fabric Crafts: Basic Techniques for Sewing, Applique, Embroidery, Quilting, Dyeing, and Printing, plus 150 Inspired Projects from A to Z

• POT-50586
• 9780307450586
• Brand New Item / Unopened Product
• Random House

Whether you just bought your first sewing machine or have been sewing for years, Martha Stewart’s Encyclopedia of Sewing and Fabric Crafts will open your eyes to an irresistible range of ideas. A comprehensive visual reference, the book covers everything a home sewer craves: the basics of sewing by hand or machine, along with five other time-honored crafts techniques, and step-by-step instructions for more than 150 projects that reflect not only Martha Stewart’s depth of experience and crafting expertise, but also her singular sense of style.
 
Encyclopedic in scope, the book features two main parts to help you brush up on the basics and take your skills to a new level. First, the Techniques section guides readers through Sewing, Appliqué, Embroidery, Quilting, Dyeing, and Printing. Following that, the Projects A to Z section features more than 150 clever ideas (including many no-sew projects), all illustrated and explained with the clear, detailed instructions that have become a signature of Martha Stewart’s  magazines, books, and television shows.
 
An enclosed CD includes full-size clothing patterns as well as templates that can be easily produced on a home printer. Fabric, thread, and tool glossaries identify the properties, workability, and best uses of common sewing materials. And, perhaps best of all, when you need it most, Martha and her talented team of crafts editors offer you the reassurance that you really can make it yourself.
 
The projects are as delightful as they are imaginative, and include classic Roman shades, hand-drawn stuffed animals, an easy upholstered blanket chest, a quilted crib bumper, French knot-embellished pillowcases and sheets, and Japanese-embroidered table linens, among many others.With gorgeous color photographs as well as expert instruction, this handy guide will surely encourage beginners and keep sewers and crafters of all experience levels wonderfully busy for many years to come.

List Price: $ 35.00

Price: $ 18.70

Nice Arts, Crafts & Sewing photos

Some cool Arts, Crafts & Sewing images:

The Knitted Convenience


Image by urban don
The Knitted Convenience is knitting gone wild for Sydney Design 2009. Organised by the Sydney Powerhouse Museum, the festival has craft and design events across Sydney. One of those was organised by guerrilla knitter grrl+dog. The knitting graffiti took place at Taylor Square, Darlinghurst, at an public toilet. The toilet is unique in the fact it has been closed for thirty years and was the first public toilets in Sydney. This was the men’s toilet that this gang of knitters took on.
I was there to help out, hey, I sleep with the artist so it was a given.
After warm-up coffee all round the activities started. Scaffold, ladders, bags of wool, pins, entertainment, watchers, assistants, supervisors and a couple of homeless people spilled out across Taylor Square.
I managed to capture a few images here. Some were taken by David (seen at the top of structure) and some by grrl+dog.
The Knitted Convenience will stay in place for four weeks. After that the wool will be used for a local homeless charity. How cool is that?
It was great to see this event and be part of it. What was also exciting was to be able to go down into this 1908 toilet block for the first time.
Looks like I will return to take down the piece. I swear I will take more photos of inside! (And of the women’s toilet next door, which is even more fascinating) It may be the last time as council has no intention of doing anything with these buildings.
Worth having a look if you are in Sydney.

The Knitted Convenience


Image by urban don
The Knitted Convenience is knitting gone wild for Sydney Design 2009. Organised by the Sydney Powerhouse Museum, the festival has craft and design events across Sydney. One of those was organised by guerrilla knitter grrl+dog. The knitting graffiti took place at Taylor Square, Darlinghurst, at an public toilet. The toilet is unique in the fact it has been closed for thirty years and was the first public toilets in Sydney. This was the men’s toilet that this gang of knitters took on.
I was there to help out, hey, I sleep with the artist so it was a given.
After warm-up coffee all round the activities started. Scaffold, ladders, bags of wool, pins, entertainment, watchers, assistants, supervisors and a couple of homeless people spilled out across Taylor Square.
I managed to capture a few images here. Some were taken by David (seen at the top of structure) and some by grrl+dog.
The Knitted Convenience will stay in place for four weeks. After that the wool will be used for a local homeless charity. How cool is that?
It was great to see this event and be part of it. What was also exciting was to be able to go down into this 1908 toilet block for the first time.
Looks like I will return to take down the piece. I swear I will take more photos of inside! (And of the women’s toilet next door, which is even more fascinating) It may be the last time as council has no intention of doing anything with these buildings.
Worth having a look if you are in Sydney.

The Knitted Convenience


Image by urban don
The Knitted Convenience is knitting gone wild for Sydney Design 2009. Organised by the Sydney Powerhouse Museum, the festival has craft and design events across Sydney. One of those was organised by guerrilla knitter grrl+dog. The knitting graffiti took place at Taylor Square, Darlinghurst, at an public toilet. The toilet is unique in the fact it has been closed for thirty years and was the first public toilets in Sydney. This was the men’s toilet that this gang of knitters took on.
I was there to help out, hey, I sleep with the artist so it was a given.
After warm-up coffee all round the activities started. Scaffold, ladders, bags of wool, pins, entertainment, watchers, assistants, supervisors and a couple of homeless people spilled out across Taylor Square.
I managed to capture a few images here. Some were taken by David (seen at the top of structure) and some by grrl+dog.
The Knitted Convenience will stay in place for four weeks. After that the wool will be used for a local homeless charity. How cool is that?
It was great to see this event and be part of it. What was also exciting was to be able to go down into this 1908 toilet block for the first time.
Looks like I will return to take down the piece. I swear I will take more photos of inside! (And of the women’s toilet next door, which is even more fascinating) It may be the last time as council has no intention of doing anything with these buildings.
Worth having a look if you are in Sydney.