You’re invited! For this month’s free Greenpoint Hand Skills workshop, we’re exploring a technique to dye for! Come on by and learn all about rust dye, a natural dye technique that uses metal + moisture + time to transform fabrics with rusty hues. 

Bring along natural fabrics to dye, such as a hanky, fabric scraps, or a garment. White, cream, or light colored material will work best. Got some miscellaneous hardware lying around (nails, screws, steel wool, etc - does not need to be rusty yet), feel free to bring that along too.

• When: Saturday, April 6 from 12-2 p.m.
• Where: Greenpoint Library, 107 Norman Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11222
• RSVP, please.

I’m pleased to announce that I will be teaching at the first ever Brooklyn Craft Camp on March 16th in Greenpoint, Brooklyn! This is sure to be a day of fun featuring craft workshops (but of course!), good food, good people, tasty cocktails, and a well-known keynote speaker. I’ll be teaching workshops on how to make: papercut cards and printing with hand-carved stamps.

Learn all about Brooklyn Craft Camp here.

Digital paper whirlwind! I spent last weekend teaching kids how to stitch embroidered paper badges at the 4th annual Inventgenuity Festival. In keeping with the theme of this year’s festival, “Digital By Hand,” each kid designed and stitched up their own badges with an expressive emoticon of their own invention to wear proudly. 

You can see more of the kids’ creations here.

Hello, Brooklyn kids (and their loving parents)! This weekend is the fourth annual Inventgenuity Festival. Try saying that five times fast, and make it your business to be there. This free two-day event is all about empowering kids to make things and make things happen, and the roster of workshops and projects is brimming with possibility around this year’s theme: Digital By Hand. 

Last year I had a ton of fun leading workshops in Brooklyn and Boston on making pouches from recycled bike tubes. This year I’ll be there running workshops on making embroidered emoticon badges, and I hope to see your :) faces!

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> > > Interested? RSVP right here! < < <

This morning I woke up bright on early and braved the cold for a quick block printing session in my studio, in preparation for a possible upcoming workshop (more on that to come). Each time I carve a block and have that instant satisfaction of seeing my print on the page, I think, “I love this. I should do this all the damn time.” So, there may be more of these to come. Stay tuned!

You’re invited! Cure your cabin fever with me at this month’s Greenpoint Hand Skills workshop on Saturday. We’ll be knittin’ up a storm. Total beginners and seasoned knitters welcome. (It’s free!)

• When: Saturday, November 3 from 12-2 p.m.
• Where: Greenpoint Library, 107 Norman Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11222
• RSVP, please.

Hello, friends. I just wanted to let you know about the Inventgenuity Festival that’s happening this Sunday, March 18th in Boston. It’s a creative event designed for kids that  will explore will explore a theme of “dis/assembly” with hands-on workshops and on-going collective projects led by expert makers, unmakers and re-makers of sound, electricity, food and objects of all kinds. I’ll be one such maker, leading workshops on making pouches from busted bike tubes. Spread the word!

Here are a couple photos from Inventgenuity Brooklyn 2012: