Here’s a cool opportunity for local crafters to donate their work to a good cause. The Alice Ferguson Foundation, a nonprofit in the Washington, DC area that hates on litter and does environmental education for inner-city kids, is having an Oktoberfest fundraiser with a silent auction and they are looking for awesome and crafty items [...]

Vickie Howell, host of DIY’s Knitty Gritty and Austin Craft Mafia co-founder, wants to know about you! Her next book, Craft Corps will focus on the craft community and she will be featuring 50-60 short profiles of crafters of all types. On her blog she writes: Whether you’ve found success selling your handmade sock monkeys [...]

The Design*Sponge Biz Ladies meet-ups are designed to connect local women running their own design-based businesses. The event is a fun, informal session that will provide free advice and information in the following areas: Marketing/PR, Wholesale/Retail, Business/Legal issues and local designer Kat Feuerstein will tell her story of turning their passion into a successful full-time [...]

The Crafty Bastards Discovery Series is in full swing! With our second workshop in the series under our belt, we’re gearing up for the next one in August. The Crafty Bastards Discovery Series has crafting experts come to Whole Foods on P Street once a month, to talk to the Crafty community about ways to [...]

Crafty Bastards Silver Spring host, the Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, is opening their new Community Arts Store in the heart of Downtown Silver Spring. Join in the Grand Opening celebration this weekend! The Pyramid Atlantic Community Arts Store will showcase affordable prints and artist books, handmade paper, and the work of local painters, ceramicists, jewelers [...]

Crafty Bastards and Craft Magazine are teaming up to offer all you crafty folks a chance to win a free, one-year subscription to the raddest, how-to craft mag around. Craft Magazine is your complete resource for rainy day ideas, craft equipment know-how, knitting, sewing, baking, felting, paper-making, embroibery, duct taping, wood-carving, and anything-you-can-dream-up crafts. Craft [...]

Keep your crafty cool this summer with tons of craft workshops and events hosted by the Pyramid Atlantic Art Center. As a partner and host of Crafty Bastards Silver Spring, Pyramid Atlantic knows how to keep the crafty masses happy with events that will have you learning and crafting with like-minded folks. If you’ve never [...]

A few posts ago, my fellow bastard Tina Seamonster wrote about upcycling with those old t-shirts that just aren’t wearable anymore. Now I have yet another crafty recycling option for you- make paper. At the Pyramid Atlantic papermill we can make paper out of everything from junk mail to your old New Kids shirt (if [...]

I have always felt like sort of a one trick pony when it comes to crafting. I gocco. I used to do other stuff, but when I got my Gocco Printer about 5 years ago, I stopped doing much else. Nothing matches it when it comes to ease of use. And my lifestyle only gives [...]

Last night I went to Ikea. As always, I came home with 30% needed stuff and 70% fluff (which is a pretty successful Ikea trip for me). I never really think about buying fabric from Ikea, as I’m usually there on a mission to redecorate my home with weird plastic items that I don’t really [...]