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SouthSide Works Exposed: July 15 – 17
Pin ItTweetWe’re in the home stretch getting ready for our favorite 3-day outdoor city festival! The SouthSide Works Exposed offers a comfortable space to hang with the kids, friends, parents or your furry friends. Enjoy more than 60 regional artists selling handmade wares. We’ll have our tents set up and will make our home along 27th [...]
I Made It! Market on KDKA’s Pittsburgh Today Live!
Pin ItTweetView I Made It! Market organizers on KDKA’s Pittsburgh Today Live talking about the unique makers joining us for the SouthSide Works Exposed July 15 – 17! Tweet
I Made It! Market named a Best Of in Pittsburgh Magazine’s Best of the ‘Burgh 2011
Pin ItTweetTHANK YOU to Pittsburgh Magazine’s Editors and Readers for voting I Made It! Market: Most easygoing craft fair I Made It! Market Across Pennsylvania, there are quaint craft fairs and roadside antique shops that sell handmade trinkets. For serious crafters, there’s the Handmade Arcade, an annual bazaar of jewelry and hand-stitched purses. Yet I Made [...]
Mountmellick Embroidery
Pin ItTweetIn a far off town called Mountmellick, in a far off land called Ireland, Mountmellick embroidery had its humble beginnings. In the 1800s, materials were cheap, and this affordable type of white-on-white embroidery was a source of income for girls and women during the Great Irish Famine. (The heavy cotton sateen fabric isn’t so affordable [...]
WYEP’s 14th Annual Summer Music Festival
Pin ItTweet WYEP’s 14th Annual Summer Music Festival at Schenley Plaza kicks off on June 24! Headlining this year is Eli “Paperboy” Reed, along with Fitz and the Tantrums, Jukebox the Ghost, and Big Hurry. These FREE live performances will start at 6 pm on the lawn at Schenley Plaza. Line-Up: 6 pm – Big Hurry [...]
To the Lovely Couple: See You Saturday!
Pin ItTweetJoin us from 12 – 5 pm for this unique event catering to Pittsburgh couples looking for a new, unique, local, green, cutting edge, diy and individual aesthetic for their big day. Find all of the vendors you will need to throw the best party in town. Enjoy samples and event day specials from many [...]
KRAFT:::FWD
Pin ItTweet“Craft only exists in motion.” — Glenn Adamson Something really awesome that happened this weekend (Other than the Opening at assemble and the I (re)Made It! SMART market for GA/GI) was the Craftforwad Symposium at California College of the Arts in San Francisco & Oakland. What was that all about?! Well, ladies and gentlemen, crafting [...]
Craft-spirations!
Pin ItTweetLadies and Gentlemen! It is going to be one craft-tastic summer in Pittsburgh! Please stretch those phalanges before you knit and crochet your life away! I wanted to throw out some craft-spriations for those who are looking to expand their own crafts with technology! BEHOLD! the lampshade! SUCH OPPORTUNITY! So Many ways of making the [...]
Featured Friday Artist: European Girl’s Etched Eggs
Pin ItTweetChrissy Luschas shares her craft and the history behind it as she creates an etched egg for us! Learn more about Chrissy here. Tweet
For the Love of Craft
Pin ItTweet Location: Society for Contemporary Craft {2100 Smallman Street} Date: Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011 Time: 5:30-8 p.m. Cost: No admission price. There may be a small fee for charm making. It’s time to break out the scissors, glue and glitter because the Pittsburgh Craft Collective and I Made It! Market are teaming up with the Society for Contemporary [...]
