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For all you Canadian crafters, there's the cleverly named Spins & Needles craft and DJ night held every third Wednesday of the month in Ottowa, Canada! This night of scratching needles and knitting needles is held at the Clocktower Brew Pub in the Glebe at 575 Bank St.
As so many craft nights begin, Spins & Needles was born out of the lack of any venue for creative types to get together and do their thing! A great alternative to a drunken stupor!
More information at the Spins & Needles homepage: Spins & Needles
Felt Club is a monthly mini-craft fair featuring the best and brightest of the SoCal craft scene. Nearly two dozen crafters per month will show a wide variety of handmade goods, including handbags and jewelry, baby gifts and paper products, clothing and housewares, one-of-a-kind plushies and original artwork. The offerings may vary, but what our vendors have in common is quality, originality, and fun.
More info here: Felt Club
TypeCon 2006 will be held in Boston, MA this year, and will feature the latest and greatest in typgraphic nerdery! Their website hasn't launched yet, but stay tuned. I hear something is coming up rather soon.
If you’re in the area the 22nd and 23rd of April, and you’re either crafty, or a nerd, or a crafty nerd, you’re going to want to high-tail it over the the Bazaar Bizarre San Francisco held inside MAKE Magazine’s MAKER Faire! If you’re hitherto unawares of either, the Maker Faire is for all the DIYers out there, featuring things such as: a flying Pterosaur replica, a flock of whale blimps, a giant painting machine, DIY RFID implants, model rocketry, breadboarding, trailer-glass blowing, The Crucible’s welding workshops off the back of fire truck, pinhole photography, soldering, spud gun building, bubble machines and a bubble guy that appeared on Johnny Carson in the 70’s, Bunnie Huang, Joe Grand, William Gurstelle and his Backyard Ballistics, The Exploratorium, Zeum, The Lunar Society (rocket builders), Graffiti Research Lab, Squid Labs biodiesel, electric cars, a Linux supercomputer cluster running on veggie oil, neon art, circuit bending, VJs, slide rules, pinball restoration, the Phenomenauts, Satan’s Calliope, the guys from Mythbusters …. and much, much more.
Bazaar Bizarre is being held INSIDE the Maker Faire and will feature 50 of the craftiest kids around peddling their handmade crafty goods, including some very special printmaker pin sets from yours truly! For admission info, check out the Maker Faire page.
More on Bazaar Bizarre: Bazaar Bizarre
More on the events at Maker Faire: Maker Faire
