Toronto Craft Alert

bbrrrr! grab a cup of tea and please join us for another batch of lovely picks!
happy weekend sweet friends

Amy says:

(image from Daniel Douglas)

1. Jenni Rope

Okay, look at all these books. I’m overwhelmed.

2. Sofia Arnold/Icebear

Other wordly silkscreened prints. Love.

3. Susie Cowie

Vintage-inspired embroidery.

4. Daniel Douglas

This picture is perfection: the tumbledown wood, the yarn-roof, oh!

5. Mariska Karasz

Incredible, [...]

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It’s suddenly winter but these top picks will keep you warm.

Caitlyn says:

(image by DosFamily)

1. DosFamily

I’m in so love with the house tours they feature… I want to move in.

2. Modeerniteter

Adorable, adorable, adorable. Swedish style at it’s best.

3. Andrew Bannecker

I know, I know.

4. Hannah & Landon

They’ve been floating around on the internet for awhile, but this couple is pretty cute.

5. 1918 Vintage

Cute little vintage store. I [...]

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World of Threads Festival
September 18 – October 4, 2009

We invite you to Oakville’s biennial celebration of international contemporary and traditional fibre arts. This year we have 14 exhibitions with 90+ artists from 12 countries and 8 provinces.

The Common Thread International Juried Exhibition is the flagship event of the Festival. This year we had 215 entries from sixteen countries and eight provinces. The jurors had difficult decisions to make on jury day. Due to the quality of the pieces received, a decision was made to expand the Common Thread into [...]

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Happy Intern Top Picks Wednesday!  I hope everyone loved all the guest posters and the amazing art and craft they had to share – what an incredible team!  This week features video-art, zines, everything you can do with Japanese tape, and more -  enjoy, friends.

Amy says:

(image by Lotte Reiniger)

1. Lotte Reiniger

Lotte combined her interests in silhouette-making, puppetry, and film-making to create some intricate and impressive short films. I think we should all watch some of her [...]

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Domestixxx (Painting and Embroidery by Nicole Dawkins)
Date: June 15 -July 31
Location: Come As You Are (701 Queen St. W)
Opening: Thursday June 18 7pm-9pm

About the show:
Domestixxx: Paintings and Embroidery by Nicole Dawkins
I have created a series of paintings of images of food taken primarily from vintage Betty Crocker recipe cards, which are super-imposed with embroidered images of burlesque, spanking, images of female submission, and vintage porn. I have also machine- and hand-embroidered reclaimed erotic/domestic [...]

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If you’re in Sweden in the next few months, you can check out this exhibition!

Tara forwarded us this information she found from InterAccess.
Open Source Embroidery, created by Ele Carpenter, is an exhibition held in Sweden at Bildmuseet Umea University which facilitates a range of artists who practice investigating the relationship between programming for embroidery and computing.

Bildmuseet Umea University
Open Source Embroidery at Bildmuseet
Open Source Embroidery
6 June – 6 September 2009

Bildmuseet
Umea University
Sweden

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