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Photos from T-shirt Day – Lots of Great Pittsburgh T-shirts

Last Monday – some of Pittsburgh biggest t-shirt fans gathered at OTB Cafe to celebrate International T-shirt Day 2010 – while this day was in celebration of all t-shirts – it was amazing to see that everyone showed up in their finest Pittsburgh t-shirts. And we had an amazing collection of Pittsburgh t-shirts that we raffled off.

Here are some of the shirts that Commonwealth Press offers – you can buy these shirts at their shop on Carson Street or online at CompressMerch.com

: T-shirts from Commonwealth Press

Pittsburgh T-shirt Day started with some screen printing demos at Commonwealth Press – anyone who stopped in could print one of their own T-shirt Day Shirts with a quote from Ben Franklin.

: Screen printing presses at Commonwealth Press

Check out the International T-shirt Day shirts that were created just for this event…

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Then it was off to OTB Cafe on Carson Street for a T-shirt Day Happy Hour. We displayed some great t-shirts around the bar and had many to give away too.

T-shirts on Display

Here is Dave – a Pittsburgher and a t-shirt lover who is chronicling his shirt collection at Too Many T-shirts by posting 1 photo a day featuring the t-shirt he is wearing. This Pennsylvania T-shirt and the Oakland one below are available at the Cotton Factory guerilla retail story and at the Cotton Factory table at I Made It Markets (custom orders are available by emailing customprinting-at-cottonfactory.com)

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Saturday Sept. 5 – Crafts N'At – with Auction Prizes too!

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This weekend the Pittsburgh Craft Collective is hosting Crafts N’At – a craft fair at the Union Project . Craft N’At will also include a the pick-a-prize auction benefit [gravity & grace], a contemporary opera benefiting the Parkinson’s foundation of Western PA. It is great to see that the Pgh Craft Collective is working to support the [gravity & grace] project. I first learned about gravity & grace last year and I think it is a really interesting project about living with a disability that has been holding some community workshops over the past few months and will have a performance on September 25 & 26,2009.

Auction Items include: A Gift Certificate from Pavement – one of the best shoe stores around, a membership to the Carnegie Museums, a gift basket from the East End Food Co-Op and MORE!

Here are just a few of the vendors you might want to check out

Cosy Makes – I love her hand dyed yarn – I have my eye on the Gravity is Mine green. She recycles yarn from old sweaters into yarn and other wonderful hand knit items. Check out some of her work in the book “Knit One, Embellish Too: Hats, Mittens And Scarves With A Twist”.
Ragtrader has some great necklaces – my favorites are the Brass wings – reminds me of pilots wings and I really love the Bird in Flight necklace too.
Garbella offers screen printed t-shirts, scarves totes and more. I think this black and gold one makes a perfect Steelers accessory.

Make your own political cartoons and campaign buttons at the Warhol's Cartoon Factory

This weekend the Warhol Museum opens a new exhibit called the Cartoon Factory that has got a few of my favoirte things. I love the warhol because you can screen print things there and this new exhibit gives you a chance to make your own political cartoons or campaign buttons.

Cartoon Factory 2008: Scaring Up the Vote
November 1- 2, 10am-5pm
brought to you by: Warhol Musuem and the ToonSeum

Create your own political cartoons, buttons and t-shirts
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and nationally Syndicated cartoonist Rob Rogers will be there too
Completed cartoons will be displayed at the museum until Nov. 9.

h/t to PopCityMedia
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