Toronto Craft Alert

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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PIN UP, PARTY DOWN

WORN Fashion Journal Issue 10 Launch Party and Art-on-Pins Exhibit
Limited edition buttons for sale – a buck a button
Sixties songs for dancing

Friday, May 28th 2010
9pm-2am

CINECYCLE – down the lane behind 129 Spadina Ave.
$7 cover. $5 if you wear a pin.
Free Issue 10 with cover

www.wornjournal.com

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Red Claw Press Announces
A Writerlicious Anthology About Food:
Literal, Poetic, Imagined

Call for Contributions

We invite the submission of works about Food and Drink in all their meanings:  stories, poems and works of art in any medium that celebrate food, or decry it; the joy of eating, or not; foods you love or hate now, or did as a child; cooking experiences bad and good; foods you ate recently or a long time ago; cooking recipes with commentary; food for thought, recipes for disaster, recipes for love.  When [...]

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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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She’s Shameless / She’s Writing: June 23rd
She’s Shameless launches June 23rd in Toronto at The Gladstone Hotel!

Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen St West, Toronto
Tues June 23; 8pm (doors 7:30pm) $5 (or free with book purchase)
With readings from Dianah Smith, Shannon Gerard, Zoe Whittall and Shannon Webb-Campbell.
Prom and anti-prom attire encouraged!

SHE’S SHAMELESS / SHE’S WRITING
Shameless magazine, This Is Not A Reading Series and Tightrope Books celebrate the launch of She’s Shameless: Women write about growing up, [...]

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A new issue of fibreQUARTERLY has been released:
Volume 5/ Issue 1/ winter 2009 : 2008 A Year In Textiles

Explore Canadian Textile and Fibre Arts and Craft History, yesterday, today and tomorrow, if it’s spun, woven, printed or just quickly stitched up, we try to give it voice

fibreQUARTERLY  publishes  3 on- line issues yearly, then produces an Anthology in a downloadable PDF format

The basic concept was to create and maintain a central location in which to explore, present and celebrate, contemporary Canadian [...]

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