CRAFTERNOON EVENTS

Join me and my co-host, the lovely and talented rare books curator Jessica Pigza for our hands-on crafting workshops at the New York Public Library. These events are free and open to the public, and supplies are provided. This series takes place at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Margaret Liebman Berger Forum (on the Second Floor, Room 227). That’s the big library with the lions out front! Reservations are welcome because space is limited. To reserve your spot, please write to handmade@nypl.org with your name and the date of the event you wish to attend. They are a wonderful gathering for the crafting community, so we hope to see you there!

Saturday, March 9th from 2-4pm: Beading with Bert & Dana Freed of Well Done Experience

Special guests will be mother and daughter bead artists Bert and Dana Freed. They’ll share some beading skills and discuss their creative DIY outreach as founders of  A Well Done Experience. This is our first beading Crafternoon, and we are thrilled about it! Additional info can be found on the library’s website.

SATURDAY, APRIL 6TH FROM 2-4: CREATIVEBUG

Creativebug is a great source for art and craft instruction. We’ll be joined by some of their stitching teachers. Additional info can be found on the library’s website. SADLY, I WILL NOT BE IN ATTENDANCE AT THIS EVENT. BUT YOU SHOULD GO AND GET CRAFTY WITHOUT ME!

Saturday, April 20th from 2-4pm: Amy Azzarito from Design*Sponge

Amy is a former NYPL employee (she helped create the NYPL video series Design by the Book). She’s now managing editor of the popular blog Design*Sponge. Her new book, Past and Present: 24 Favorite Moments in Decorative Arts History and 24 Modern DIY Projects Inspired by Them comes out this spring. Amy show us how to make a project from her book, and we’ll have some wonderful decorative arts books from the library’s collections for browsing. Additional info can be found on the library’s website.

Join me and the lovely and talented rare books curator Jessica Pigza for our hands-on crafting series at the New York Public Library. This series takes place at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Margaret Liebman Berger Forum (on the Second Floor, Room 227). These events are free and open to the public, and supplies are provided. Reservations are welcome because space is limited. To reserve your spot, please write to handmade@nypl.org with your name and the date of the event you wish to attend. I hope to see you there!

September 15th, 2012 from 2-4pm

Kelly Rand, Program Director at Hello Craft, will be celebrating the publication of Handmade To Sell: Hello Craft’s Guide to Owning, Running, and Growing Your Crafty Biz. The book dishes out advice to entrepreneurial crafters, and Kelly will field questions from our attendees while showing us some DIY projects. More info on the event at the NYPL website.

October 13, 2012 from 2-4pm

Sarah Goldschadt, author of Craft-A-Day, will be showing us one of the multitude of very cool projects from her book. More info on the event at the NYPL website.

CANCELLED: November 3, 2012 from 2-4pm

This event with Denyse will be rescheduled for the Spring. Sorry for any inconvenience.Denyse Schmidt, artist/quilter/author/inspiring woman, will share ideas from her new book Modern Quilts, Traditional Inspiration and guide us through a historically inspired stitching project. More info on the event at the NYPL website.

Join me and Jessica Pigza at the Stephen A. Schwarzman branch of the New York Public Library for Handmade Crafternoon this spring.

March 3, 2012 The NY Guild of Handweavers Members of the New York Guild of Handweavers will demonstrate the basic tenets of handweaving and share some information and inspiration about this textile art. You’ll be able to try your hand at weaving with a little DIY loom and watch other looms in action as well.

April 14, 2012 Noah Scalin, author of Skulls, Unstuck, and 365, will share with us some ideas for kickstarting our own creativity every day.

May 12, 2012 Jennifer Paganelli, author of the books Girls World and Happy Home and designer of the vibrant and joyful Sis Boom fabric line, will show us how to make festive garlands.

Handmade Crafternoons are always from 2-4pm. More details will be announced closer to each date. For advance registration, send an email to HANDMADE@NYPL.ORG. Include YOUR NAME and the DATE you want to attend.Please arrive by 1:50pm for the event; at that point we’ll offer open seats to walk-ins.

A Valentine’s Crafternoon

I’m thrilled to return to The Brooklyn Museum, where I’ll be leading a workshop on how to make creative collage pieces inspired by love and Valentine’s Day.

There is a $15 materials fee, and registration is required. Register at www.museumtix.com or at the Museum’s Visitor Center. A limited number of free tickets are reserved for Museum members on a first-come, first-served basis. Members should call (718) 501-6326 for tickets.

Join me and Jessica Pigza at the Stephen A. Schwarzman branch of the New York Public Library for Handmade Crafternoon this fall!

September 10, 2011  design*sponge celebrated the release of their new book with a hands-on crafting demo at Handmade Crafternoon! Author Grace Bonney demonstrated how to design a personal stamp and create beautiful custom-printed fabric with it!

October 15, 2011 Our delicate October Crafternoon featured talented lace designer Lisa Daehlin. Lisa showed us a few lacemaking techniques and talked all about lace. She teaches at Cooper Union, knitting shops, and elsewhere, and is an opera singer as well as lacemaker.

November 19, 2011 Join us for a feisty and fun BUST DIY Day with Debbie Stoller and Laurie Henzel. We’ll be celebrating the Bust Guide to Life by making friendship bracelets! Feel free to BYOEF (bring your own embroidery floss) in 4 different colors.

December 17, 2011 Fabric lovers, you are in luck. To say our fond farewell to 2011, we’re having a sewing party with the sweet and talented Brett Bara!

Handmade Crafternoons are always from 2-4pm. More details will be announced closer to each date. This season we’re trying something new with Handmade Crafternoons — advance registration. We’ll still take as many walk-ins as space allows, but you can sign up in advance if you want.Here’s how it works: Send an email to HANDMADE@NYPL.ORG. Include YOUR NAME and the DATE you want to attend.Please arrive by 1:50pm for the event; at that point we’ll offer open seats to walk-ins. Can’t wait to get crafty with you!

Sunday, September 18th at 1pm

Join me for Maker Faire, the most completely awesome DIY tech and craft fair EVER. This event is two days long and takes place out at the New York Hall of Science. If you haven’t been before, you are in for a major treat. Learn how to do all kinds of crazy tech things,or go to a lecture on the molecular pathology of cancer. Buy a two day pass and see John Hodgman reveal the secrets of famous magic tricks on Saturday at 2pm!

I’ll be demoing Total Craft Party: Ideas for Decorating Your Next Celebration by Hand at the CRAFT Demo Booth on Sunday 9/18 at 1pm. Hope to see you there!

I’m thrilled to be kicking off the San Francisco Public Library’s new Crafternoon series at the Presidio Branch on Saturday, August 27th, 2011. Supplies will be generously donated by EKSuccess Brands. Looking forward to bringing Crafternoon to the beautiful city by the bay.

Get ready for some independent publishing at our zine making day with the awesome Ayun Halliday, author of Zinester’s Guide to New York City. We’ll also be joined by the New York Public Library‘s Periodicals Librarian who will be on hand to showcase the library’s zine collection. FREE

Saturday, May 7, 2011 from 2-4pm
New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, 42nd Street and 5th Avenue
Margaret Liebman Berger Forum

We’ll be welcoming the wonderful Liesl Gibson of Oliver + S back to the library to celebrate her new book Little Things to Sew! FREE

Saturday April 2nd from 2-4pm

New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, 42nd Street and 5th Avenue
Margaret Liebman Berger Forum

http://www.oliverands.com/blog/

We learned how to make beautiful birds with Abby Glassenberg, author of The Artful Bird: Feathered Friends to Make and Sew . FREE

Saturday, March 5, 2011 from 2-4pm
New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, 42nd Street and 5th Avenue
Margaret Liebman Berger Forum

http://www.whileshenaps.typepad.com/

We spread the love by making valentines inspired by the feature story on Handmade Crafternoon in the February 2011 issue of Martha Stewart Living! The magazine sent several representatives, including Athena Preston, Senior Associate Craft Editor who gave a great talk. Vanessa Holden, Editor in Chief was also on hand, along with Cassidy Iwersen, who created some of the valentine designs featured in the magazine.We had loads of gorgeous supplies to share, generously donated by Martha Stewart Crafts. FREE.

Saturday, February 5, 2011 from 2-4pm
New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, 42nd Street and 5th Avenue
Margaret Liebman Berger Forum

http://www.crafternoon.com/blog/2011/01/martha-martha-martha/

I led a sold-out workshop on how to make creative collage pieces inspired by Norman Rockwell, with an introduction to basic decoupaging techniques.

Saturday, January 15, 2011
Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York

http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/calendar/event/3946

At the Winter Farm Weekend at Stone Barns, I showed kids three craft projects: winter wax paper sun catchers, holiday cards made with stamps, and paper cut snowflakes.

Saturday, December 11, 2010
Stone Barns, 630 Bedford Road, Tarrytown, NY 10591

http://www.stonebarnscenter.org/winter-on-the-farm-weekend/
http://www.crafternoon.com/blog/2010/12/stone-barns-and-knitty-cities/

Jodi Kahn showed us how to stitch up some sweet little fabric gifts using fabric printed with winter scenes selected from the Library’s own collection of vintage greetings and cards.

Saturday, November 20th, 2010
New York Public Library,  Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, 42nd Street and 5th Avenue, Margaret Liebman Berger Forum

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0307464466/1n9867a-20
http://www.nypl.org/blog/2010/11/19/simply-sublime-winter-sewing

Inspired by a project from my book, I taught makers how to personalize wrapping paper, cards, notebooks and even clothes with simple stamping and printing techniques.

Sunday, September 26th, 2010
Craft Demo Stage, Maker Faire, New York Hall of Science, Queens, NY

http://makerfaire.com/pub/e/4671
http://makerfaire.com/newyork/2010/

Julia Rothman, author of The Exquisite Book, led us in a group art project based on the surrealist artist’s game called “The Exquisite Corpse”. Julia brought along some of the fabulous artists who contributed to The Exquisite Book: Jen Corace,  Chris Kyung, Arthur Jones, Laura Ljungkvist, and Maxwell Holyoke-Hirsch to make stuff with our attendees.

Saturday, September 18th, 2010
New York Public Library,  Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, 42nd Street and 5th Avenue, Margaret Liebman Berger Forum

http://www.nypl.org/blog/2010/09/14/exquisite-handmade-crafternoon-julia-rothman-sept-18th
http://www.exquisitebook.com/
http://www.crafternoon.com/blog/2010/10/last-month-in-crafty-pictures/

Natalie Chanin, creative director of Alabama Chanin and author of  Alabama Stitch Book and the forthcoming  Alabama Studio Style, visited to share techniques and inspiration behind her work.

Saturday, May 15, 2010
The New York Public Library,  Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, New York, NY, The Berger Forum

http://www.alabamachanin.com/store/alabama-studio-style
http://www.nypl.org/blog/2010/05/10/alabama-chanin-handmade-crafternoon

I led the session by sharing my favorite tips on how to host an extra-fun and successful Crafternoon of one’s own.

Saturday, April 17, 2010
The New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Fifth Avenue and  42nd Street, New York, NY, The Berger Forum

http://www.nypl.org/blog/2010/04/15/share-crafty-fun-april-17ths-handmade-crafternoon
http://www.crafternoon.com/blog/2010/04/bring-your-own-crafts-to-the-nypl/

Get felty! Hand-Stitched Felt author Kata Golda visited and shared some of the tricks and techniques she uses to make her charming and whimsical felt creations.

Saturday, March 20, 2010
The New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Fifth Avenue and  42nd Street, New York, NY, The Berger Forum

http://www.katagolda.com/
http://www.katagolda.com/index.php?page=diy-katagolda-book
http://www.nypl.org/voices/blogs/blog-channels/hand-made?page=1

Esther K. Smith, author of How to Make Books, Magic Books & Paper Toys, and The Paper Bride, wowed us with her super paper-folding and book arts skills.

Saturday, February 20, 2010
New York Public Library,  Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, 42nd Street and 5th Avenue, Margaret Liebman Berger Forum

http://www.purgatorypiepress.com/howto.html
http://www.nypl.org/blog/2010/02/15/book-arts-handmade-crafternoon

Heather Ross, author of Weekend Sewing, will be joined by Denyse Schmidt, author of Denyse Schmidt Quilts and Liesl Gibson of Oliver and S for an afternoon of hand sewn fun.

Saturday, December 12, 2009, 2-4pm
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, The Berger Forum

www.nypl.org
http://www.nypl.org/blogs/2009/08/04/mark-your-calendar-handmade-crafternoons

I hosted an afternoon crafting up some clothespin ornaments and adorable Christmas bagels in the warm and cozy Spacecraft space!

Saturday, December 5th 2009
SpaceCraft, 355 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY

http://www.crafternoon.com/blog/2009/12/big-brooklyn-weekend-saturday-crafternoonsunday-book-signing/
http://spacecraftbrooklyn.com/

Grace Bonney, editor of Design*Sponge and Mike Perry, author of Hand Job, will lead a book-making afternoon in the company of the library’s hallowed collection.

Saturday, November 14, 2009, 2-4pm
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, The Berger Forum

www.nypl.org
http://www.nypl.org/blogs/2009/08/04/mark-your-calendar-handmade-crafternoons

Sabrina Gschwandtner, author of KnitKnit, and Teva Durham, author of Loop-d-Loop and Loop-d-Loop Crochet, will share some purls of wisdom and knitty-gritty yarns about their crafting experience. Knitting instruction will be available.

Saturday, October 10, 2009, 2-4pm
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, The Berger Forum

www.nypl.org
http://www.nypl.org/blogs/2009/08/04/mark-your-calendar-handmade-crafternoons

Hannah Rogge, author of Hardwear and Jessica Vitkus, author of Alternacrafts, will demo some cool craft projects to make with stuff you can find in your recycling bin, your sewing kit and your tool box.

Saturday, September 12, 2009, 2-4pm
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, The Berger Forum

www.nypl.org
http://www.nypl.org/blogs/2009/08/04/mark-your-calendar-handmade-crafternoons

Sunday, 4/26/09, from 12-3pm Kreatelier, 804 Hope Street, Providence, RI

http://kreatelier.com/happenings/

I headed to Providence for an “Earth Day” workshop event at Kreatelier! I guided crafters of all ages as they transformed bins and bins of trash and recyclables into Recyclobots and Green Doll Houses.

Thursday, 4/30/09 from 6:30-8:30pm at Spacecraft, 355 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn, NY

http://spacecraftbrooklyn.com/

We had an evening of crafting earth-friendly gifties for all the mommas in our lives. Boring t-shirts and cloth tote bags were turned into something mommalicious with fabric paint, sequins, buttons and more. We had lots of paper from our recycling bins to turn into cute collaged bookmarks and one-of-a-kind cards.