These massive crochet mandalas from artist, Xenobia Bailey , have left me breathless. They are part of an exhibit of Bailey’s work at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Originally from Seattle, Washington, and now living in Harlem, New York, Xenobia Bailey brings African American roots music into visual terms with vibrant room-sized installations of crocheted mandalas, tents, and costumes.

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Crochet Art Exhibit From Xenobia Bailey

The Stitch Wars exhibit at Bear and Bird in Lauderhill, Florida with a reception this evening from 7 to 10 PM. We’ve featured a few of the individual pieces that have been created for the show (like Heidi Kenney’s plush Tauntaun , Kit Lane’s needle felted Jabba the Hut and Yummy Pancake’s Wookie Cookies ) but now all the pieces for the show have been published in a Flickr set from Bear and Bird . There’s a fantastic variety of craft styles and applications, and all are fun and unique

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Stitch Wars Exhibit Opens Tonight

I received an email yesterday from Winy Smit with a link to the new Julia Caprara School of Textile Arts website. This website is only one page so far, but getting it up and running demonstrates the professional commitment of the RE-organization. Fellow student Chistine Spencer’s blog gave me some insight into recent grads of the degree program and following her advice, I searched for Susie Vickery and found her website.

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Julia Caprara School of Textile Arts

Join me August 17th on HSN ! 8:00 am (pacific time) Home shopping is gonna get a little messy with glitter and glow-in-the-dark Mod Podge! Just in time for holiday crafting….the gold and silver glitter Mod Podge is perfect for adding a little sparkle to your holiday crafts. The glow-in-the-dark formula will add a hauntingly fun look to any Halloween home decor, costume or craft project.

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Tune in: Home Shopping Network

the ICC Table Tennis Center of Milpitas, California. The camp includes Table Tennis fundamentals, fun exercises, art & craft, and chess. Visit ICC Table Tennis Center at 1453 N.

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ICC Camps – Table Tennis and Beyond

Bake It: Chicken Mole Full of traditional Mexican flavor, mole sauce will really get your senses sizzling. Ingredients: 2 Tablespoons vegetable oil ¼ cup raisins ½ cup canned tomatoes, diced 1 medium onion, coarsely chopped 2 cloves garlic, coarsely chopped 1 corn tortilla, torn in small pieces 1 ½ cup chicken stock 1 oz. unsweetened baking chocolate, grated 2 split chicken breasts 2 chicken thighs 2 chicken drumsticks chopped cilantro for garnish Seed and Nut Mixture: ½ Tablespoon sunflower seeds 2 Tablespoons sesame seeds ¼ teaspoon cumin seeds ¼ teaspoon anise seeds ½ cup blanched, slivered almonds Spice mixture: ¼ teaspoon ground oregano ¼ teaspoon cinnamon pinch ground cloves ½ teaspoon salt ¼ cup chili powder Steps: 1.

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Make it: Recycled Milk Jug Piñata Kids can take a swing at making your their own piñata. These colorful creations are a hit every time and are made with recycled milk jugs. Supplies: Plastic milk jug (1 gallon) Craft knife Candy Masking tape Scissors Tissue paper in various colors Mod Podge Foam paint brush Orange craft foam Feathers Hot glue gun Colored tape Pipe cleaners – pink and brown Round nose pliers Two 2” styrofoam balls Two googly eyes Steps: 1

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Make it: Recycled Milk Jug Pinatas

Japanese artists’ Daito Manabe and Motoi Ishibashi have created an “esoteric” programming language called Pa++ern that translates input from visitors to their exhibit or from virtual visitors through Twitter and turns them in to graphics that can be embroidered on t-shirts. Visitors to the gallery enjoy the movement and sounds of this highly used but rarely seen machines and can choose to operate them or witness how they are controlled by virtual visitors using twitter to send their Pa++ern program; an esoteric experience in itself. Their Pa++ern program will be on display at the Beams Gallery in Tokyo, Japan.

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Esoteric Programming Language For Embroidery

QUEEN Art & Craft – HOW TO DRAW BIJO (CHARCOAL) PART 1

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QUEEN Art & Craft – HOW TO DRAW BIJO (CHARCOAL) PART 1

4th of July Party Banner This banner is perfect to string across your front porch, patio or picnic table. The soft sparkles from the extreme glitte r are sure to please and shine in the summer sun. Materials: Folkart paint – 436 Fire Engine Red Extreme Glitter – Red Folkart paint – 643 Azure Blue Extreme Glitter – Turquoise Extreme Glitter – Silver 9 large wood circles Foam paintbrush Felt Stars – red,white and blue Hot glue Chipboard letters – BOOM BANG Wood Star Tulle – red, white and blue 1/3 yard each Scissors Red, white and blue ribbon – 6 yards 9 small wood disks Scrap ribbons Steps: 1

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Recycled Denim – 4th of July Table Runner designed for Plaid – Have a peek at other ideas here! In under 2 hours you can whip up this project! All you need is some scraps of red, white & blue fabric, old pair of jeans, some folk art fabric paint and a sewing machine. This is an easy breezy quilting project that is perfect for beginners.

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make it: 4th of July Table Runner w/ recycled jeans

Tonight the Bluebottle Art Gallery in Seattle is hosting an art opening reception for Tiny Repetitive Motions , a show featuring the amazing woolly art of our beloved miss Moxie and the sweet embroidery of Dana Robson . This collaborative display showcases work that “explores the intersection of craft and art, focusing on humanity and its collective nature.” The reception tonight is from 6 to 8 p.m., and the exhibit runs through June 30th. Moxie’s work will also be featured in the Fiber Arctic exhibit, which opens at Schmancy in Seattle tomorrow, June 12th.

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Moxie and Dana Robson Opening at Bluebottle Tonight

Here’s one of the pieces I was looking forward to seeing at Maker Faire this year. Rachel Hobson managed to snap a few photos, and I got to meet the creator of this fluid-pumping dress made from surgical tubing . From the Casual Profanity site: There was one question I got frequently that is worth answering, and that is: “how did you think of this”?

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Fluid Sculpture Dress at Maker Faire

It’s fun to try to guess exactly what you are looking at in the picture above, and it’s mind-blowing to discover what it actually is and hear the story behind the artist who created it. Jeffery Ruddell shares a beautiful story of one man’s urge to create, and his artwork that comes from a most unlikely medium. Ruddell’s exceptional story telling skills combined with the inspirational nature of this gentleman’s work make this a piece you absolutely must read

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Inspiration in Unlikely Places, With Unlikely Medium

If you are in the Portland, OR area you won’t want to miss the Summer Sunday Afternoon Nature Drawing Workshop with Jill Bliss . Workshop dates are June 7, 14, 21, or 28 From Jill’s blog: This intimate workshop is a hands-on opportunity to learn Jill’s intuitive drawing techniques while learning how to understand, appreciate and translate the world around you through drawing. Drawing can become second nature to everyone, and everyone has the ability to draw! It just takes a positive attitude, a little understanding, and some practice

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Jill Bliss’ Summer Sunday Afternoon Nature Drawing Workshops in June

I’m proud to announce an upcoming exhibition, Open Source Embroidery : Open Source Embroidery is a major exhibition of new work and commissions at BildMuseet in Sweden and Museum of Craft and Folk Art in San Francisco, USA. The Open Source Embroidery exhibition presents contemporary artwork which uses embroidery and code as a tool to investigate participatory production and distribution methods.

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Open Source Embroidery Exhibition in Sweden

Instructables user bopp has made an excellent primer on linoleum block printing , even covering lots of artists using the medium, which is great for inspiration. He goes over tools, technique, cleanup, and lots of pictures! More: Linoleum Printing with Kids Linoleum Print Tutorial Flashback: 101 Linocuts [ Read More ] [ Comments ]

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How-To: Linoleum Block Printing

In case you were under a rock or celebrating Easter or something today, and haven't heard about the AmazonFail brouhaha, here's what they're up to: Amazon has, ostensibly for the sake of their readers delicate constitutions, decided to strip the rankings from pretty much any book that has to do with anything related to the LGBT community, everything from textbooks to literature to scientific studies, whether those books include explicit descriptions of homosexual acts or not. This prevents those books from showing up in general searches and will ultimately hurt their sales figures.

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Amazon Censorship

How to Make a 3D flower with construction paper. This is an easy and simple craft project to make

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Easy Arts & Crafts Projects – How to Make a 3D toy flower with construction paper for kids

Hi there, I’d like to invite you to our exciting new social network at Craft Spider ( http://craft.craftspider.com )!! We plan on building this network up rapidly to be a fantastic and fun place to meet other crafters and to communicate with new and existing customers! Not only can you now build a detailed profile for your organisation, but also join and start user groups on any topic you wish! We also have forums, and the ability to upload and share as many photos as you want about your work, or perhaps just items that inspire you! We also have free classifieds so you can buy and sell treasures! You also get a blog..

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