2008 Crafty Bastards Vendor Spotlight: The Prick Cushion
Get to know this year’s Crafty Bastards vendors! We’re posting a series of interviews of crafters who will be at the CB festival Saturday, June 28, at the Pyramid Atlantic Arts Center in Silver Spring, MD.
Naughty plush willies in all sorts of colors and sizes are the perfect place to stick your pins. Want to see some in action? Check out this awesome little video titled Birth of a Prick Cushion. You can follow these prick plushies on Etsy, on Twitter, and they were very
recently featured in Playgirl. The Prick Cushion gets around! Crafty bastards will be The Prick Cushion’s first venture off the internet, so be sure to stop by and pop her craft show cherry!
1. Using just three words, how would you describe your work?
A Naughty Notion!
2. What are you doing to prepare for Crafty Bastards? Are there any
new products or techniques that you will be trying out for this show?
It’s a regular felt flavoured sausage fest in my workroom right now. I maybe have a few debutants coming out, but there will definitely be some old maids in new dresses – a zombie uterus for example!
3. Is your craft widespread in the handmade community? What makes your stuff different from others in your craft genre?
I am more of a budding flower. Crafty Bastards is my first attempt at branching out beyond internet selling.
Watch out handmade community! My apical meristem is full of auxin! (My innuendo style sense of humor is probably the source of individuality from others in my genre)
4. Starting an independent shop takes a lot of dedication, planning and hard work. At what point did you realize you had the chops to start your own indie craft business?
I won’t lie. I needed some cash. And I thought, why not?
5. Where are your favorite places to find your supplies?
I live in Buttcrack, KY (actually, it’s called Grays Knob, but that’s just as bad), which essentially means that the closest craft store is almost 3 hours drive away. So supply shopping is a journey of escaping the mountains on crazy mountain roads, eating sushi, buying alcohol (it’s dry in Buttcrack), clearing entire aisles of felt, and then heading back to the holler. The actual supplier is just Hobby Lobby or the likes.
6. Crafting is a grassroots revolution of sorts. It’s catching on as people appreciate all things handmade, original, recycled and environmentally/socially conscious. Does this influence/inspire your work? If so, how do you incorporate it into your craft?
My main goal is to make people laugh. A lighter heart in a heavy society is a good thing.
7. After seeing your work, many would-be crafters are inspired to start their own creations. Will you have any DIY kits available for sale at Crafty this year?
Learn to sew! It will make you want to stab people at first, and you may sew through your finger, but it is a skill worth having.
8. Would you like to send us photos or video of these preparations, products or techniques to feature on the Crafty Bastards blog?
I do! Birth of a Prick Cushion
