When: Saturday, April 8th 2017
Where: The Salvation Army Pittsburgh Temple Worship & Service Center (this is a new location for 2017).
For more information contact The Salvation Army at 412-446-1500 or Marilyn Dehuff at 412-835-3162.
Tag: Crafts
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Help Bring Paul Nosa’s Sewing Tour to Pittsburgh
Sewing Tour 2012 is project that came up on Kickstarter. We have posted some Kickstarter projects here before – Kickstarter is a website that lets your croudsource funding for projects and businesses.
I am sharing this project because it has a really nice little video and I think it is a neat little project. While I don’t do much of it myself, I like sewing and quilting and I like to think that quilts – which were used to tell stories are sort of a precursor to the modern day blog.
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Paul Nosa is an artist who creates drawings with a sewing machine. He powers the sewing machine with solar power. He is trying to raise money to take his solar powered sewing machine on a cross country tour this summer. One of the stops is already planned for Pittsburgh.
Here is one of the patches he created with his sewing machine titled Bicycle Over City
Check out his video and maybe lend some support to his tour.
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Crafting and Storytelling – Pittsburgh Screening of "Handmade Nation"
- Image by tigerlillyshop via Flickr
Handmade Nation is a documentary film about the rise of all things handmade and crafty by artist and filmmaker Faythe Levine. I first learned about this film at the Craft Congress – a meeting of craft fair organizers – that was first held in Pittsburgh in 2007. You can read more about the Craft Congress in this New York Times article from December 16, 2007. Again my path crossed with this film at the Art Activist & Equity symposium which was held at the New Hazlett Theater in 2008. (more…)
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Links Worth a Look – July 21st
Here are some links/articles/blog posts that are worth a look:
- Profile of Kards Unlimited from Only In Pittsburgh – great post on Kards Unlimited – a 3rd generation business in Shadyside. Not only do they have really great cards but they also have a great selection of interesting books to read or give as gifts.
- Looking Sharp!: Neighbor totes – Pittsburgh's fashion blogger Sarah at Looking Sharp has a nice post on the newest reusuable totebags from the NeighborTeaze folks.
- All Stitched Up @ Wildcard – Sign up for this Bookbinding workshop at Wildcard on Thurs. July 22 and learn to make your own book. Or check out some of the great books – some with awesome Pittsburgh titles – for sale from Subu, Inc.
- Artists lift from the scrap heap for green-minded endeavors – Pittsburgh Business Times – Check out the great office decor at Commonwealth press created out of recycled skateboards! Also nice info about glass mosaics.
Follow IheartPGH on Twitter – we share more links there almost daily!
