Events

I can't wait to leave for Portland tomorrow for that city's instalment of the Hello Etsy conference. The main conference is in Berlin this weekend, and several American cities are hosting their own creative small-business conference at the same time. I was very excited and flattered to have been invited to pitch a session for the...
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I'm really psyched to have had the opportunity to write a bit of a guide to making a Mighty Ugly creature for the CRAFT blog. I mean, it's CRAFT! And I got to sit for an afternoon and make and photograph an ugly creature! Fun times. So if you've been listening to me blather about...
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Oh how I wish I could attend the Maker Faire in California next weekend. (Or the one in Detroit in July, or New York in September...) Next year, I hope! But I'm not terribly disappointed, because next month Vancouver will host its first community-organized Mini Maker Faire. Sanctioned by O'Reilly – the folks behind MAKE magazine,...
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Come on out! It'll be the first work-related event I've participated in since 2010. I may even be able to string coherent sentences together! This Thursday I'll be the speaker at the monthly meeting of the Vancouver Guild of Fibre Arts – 7:30PM at the Aberthau Community Centre here in Vancouver. I'll talk a bit about...
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On Thursday I'm going where few people who don't live in New York City get the chance to go. Dude. I'm going to Etsy! Kari Chapin, author of the fantastic crafts business book The Handmade Marketplace, has organized a wee panel discussion for the Etsy Speaker Series. I'll be joining her, Jennifer Judd-McGee, Betsy Cross...
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I've been invited to speak alongside Rob of Lotus Events and Got Craft?, and Erin of Collage Collage when the Museum of Vancouver screens Handmade Nation next week. I'm so excited! If you're unfamiliar with the film, it's a documentary by Faythe Levine about the resurgence of craft. The people she interviewed are in the...
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Never content to sit back when a stupendous conversation gets going, we're doing a live live blog event over at Make & Meaning. It'll be all about Free, and we hope you'll join us! It's next Tuesday evening – 16th February at 5pm Pacific time/8pm Eastern. To participate, just go to this page. If this is the...
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I'm very excited to have been invited to speak at Fibres West next month in Abbotsford, BC. If you're in the greater Vancouver area or you're looking for an excuse to take a day off work for a road trip, I hope you'll come by. Here's the gist of what I'll be presenting, from...
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I hadn't anticipated having such a good time with the Whatcom Weaver's Guild last night. I mean, I'm not a weaver*. And it had been many months since I'd given a crochet talk. And would the weavers be interested in a crochet talk? I mean, I wasn't worried about it, I just, well, I...
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It seems like ages ago that I was invited to speak at the Whatcom Weavers Guild November meeting, and now the date is fast approaching. If you're in the Bellingham, WA, area, come to the event! I'll be talking crochet and will specifically be focusing on the rise of new generations of yarn crafters...
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