I went to the Etsy craft Lab hosted by MOCFA and sponsored by Giant Robot and Britex Fabrics in downtown SF. This months was hosted outside in a little craft corral and there were two main activities: making a plush robot or make a fabric flower. We opted to make a robot and did manage to finish it between 3 grown-ups and one kid.

Friday night I had a small table set up at the Oakland Art Murmur with a friend who runs the East Bay Church of Craft chapter. We had a borrowed button maker and a bunch of colored circles and pens, old magazines, and church of craft logos on paper, and a one inch circle cutter.

I love doing demos and having interactive activities like this. We were more popular that I expected. It was also unexpected (but great!) that most people opted to design their own button, next time I ill have a wider arrayof pens and markers. We had a donation jar set up and made like 50 bucks!?!

A woman came up to us and told about this event happening in the East Bay in October called the Mini Maker Faire! I am unreasonably excited about this event. It’s sponsored by Maker Faire and they are encouraging people to start up mini maker faires all over the place! woot! So we might have a button making or craft demo booth. I’m not an official Church of Craft rep but I hope to work on this. You can follow them on twitter here and check out their blog here. They are currently taking apps for Makers and Crafters now.

Oh and a guy made a button and then taught us the penny trick. This works with a one inch button. Instead of using the wire pin back insert you can use a penny. just sandwich your fabric between a penny and the button and TA-DA, your button stays put.

On Saturday I went to the craft sale at Oakland’s Knit-One-One. Lots of nice vendors, I talked to people about CCE – Conference of Creative Entrepreneurs (which BTW has extended it’s Early Bird Pricing!) and Bazaar Bizarre. I bought a couple of nice things. Some cards from Blockhead Press, a wrist strap from blissful and some bacon chocolates from Socola Chocolates. Italked with the woman from Cut Throat Sewing about making swimwear and underwear and I was inspired by that and by Em to come home and make my first pair of underwear! Which came out fantastic BTW. I do not want to take them off!

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I made two: a star trek Federation symbol on a black tank top for Jack and a stencil of a forklift that says DAVE under it, also for Jack. I’m so jealous of the Federation symbol I am going to make myself one and one for Badger too.

I just read in a silkscreen book that you can use freezer paper as an indirect stencil with a screen. Which is great as it makes your freezer paper stencil capable of being reused. The book didn’t say how to do it exactly. I think I would use spray adhesive on the freezer paper to stick it to the screen.

I am so fired for procrastinating right now. I spent all night not doing what I should have been doing. No worries, I will pay pay pay for in the next few days.

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