Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Craft and hobby emporium

In stitches - Anchorage Press

In stitches
Anchorage Press, AK
By Scott Christiansen Annie Aube guesses it will take about 300 hours of stitching to finish the embroidered picture of a faceless girl in a purple dress. She has more faceless girls in the works. They're in sketchbooks and painted on craft boards in ...


Market linkages for home-based women workers: 20 craftswomen ... - Daily Times

Market linkages for home-based women workers: 20 craftswomen ...
Daily Times, Pakistan
He said the craftswomen from Southern Punjab were the custodians of traditional ralli craft, variety of embroidery, khussa-making and chunri-work. DEVCOM- Pakistan Chairman Munir Ahmed said up to 70 percent of the workingwomen in Pakistan were engaged ...


Crafty comeback with indie edge - Washington Times

Washington Times

Crafty comeback with indie edge
Washington Times, DC
Grandma never embroidered monkeys on T-shirts or brought her crochet hook to happy hour or sold sea-glass earrings through her online store. This is crafting in the new millennium. Commonly known as the indie craft movement, it has nonconformist ...


Artist embraces color, texture and the way fabric feels - Marin Independent-Journal

Artist embraces color, texture and the way fabric feels
Marin Independent-Journal, CA
... Barrington joins a bevy of other crafts-people in the Baulines Craft Guild's "Friends Along the Journey" exhibition. She will display a new work: a machine-pieced, hand-appliqued and hand-embroidered U-shaped quilt made entirely of repurposed wool ...

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