Toronto Craft Alert

Amanda Parker, Artifact Crochet. Image courtesy of Telephone Booth Gallery.

This exhibition is doily crazy! Opening this Thursday, Household Notions mashes up traditional textile territory with other media such as glass and porcelain. Read on or check out Telephone Booth Gallery’s website for more images and info.

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Telephone Booth Gallery
Household Notions
DEC 1

LIZZ ASTON – paper burn-out, porcelain
NOELLE HAMLYN – free-motion embroidery
PAM LOBB – mixed media printmaking
DORIE MILLERSON – needle [...]

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Thanks to all that participated in this book giveaway for Hoopla.  We’ve drawn the winning number:

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Timestamp: 2011-10-01 13:23:57 UTC

CONGRATS TO SHANELL!!!

Following the success of Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet and Knit Graffiti, Vancouver’s Leanne Prain is about to release her second craft opus, Hoopla: The Art of Unexpected Embroidery, published by Arsenal Pulp Press. I recently got a chance to flip through Hoopla, and it is truly fascinating; the book not only features gorgeous full-colour photographs of [...]

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Those of you reading from outside of Toronto will be excited to learn that the workroom has launched an online pop up shop.  Karyn has put together a collection of the most requested items, plus some special things special for the shop, like the adorable bauble purse frames pictured above. Hop on over to the webshop to check out thier great selection of Japanese Dress books, sewing patterns, embroidery floss, and even workroom-made [...]

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At a recent show of local and international fibrestars at the Drake, Jenny Hart had two of her much lauded embroidery portraits (pictured above and below) stolen.  She has put out a call for help on her blog, Embroidery as Art, and Alda was kind enough to alert me to it.

So if you’ve seen these guys hanging in someone’s living room or have any information that could lead to their recovery, please let Jenny know: jenny [ at ] jennyhart.net.  As Jenny has stated, the return [...]

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I just came across these incredible embroidered book covers by Canadian illustrator Jillian Tamaki thanks to a link on Broken Pencil’s website. Tamaki illustrated the acclaimed graphic novel Skim, written by her cousin Mariko Tamaki in 2008, and her practice as an artist spans comics, editorial illustrations and much more. She also has had collections of drawings published by Drawn and Quarterly and Conundrum Press.

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Do you design unusual or unexpected pieces of needlepoint? If so, you should design a pattern for Hoopla, The Art of Unexpected Embroidery, to be published by Arsenal Pulp Press in fall 2011.

Hoopla: The Art of Unexpected Embroidery rebels against the traditional notions of quaint embroidery with motifs of flowers and songbirds. The book will feature unusual stitch work on a variety of [...]

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