Contests

My needlepoint-designing friend, Jenny Henry emailed me to let me know about a giveaway for one of her cassette tapes. Check out Jenny Henry's Flickr Gallery of painted needlepoint canvases. Enter the giveaway here!

 

 

My love for you is a stampede of horses (it's a blog, mom) is having an Embroidered Effects give-away sponsored by Chronicle Books! They're excited? I'm excited! You, get yourself all excited and go post a comment over yonder that-away so maybe you can win a free copy!

 

 

 

 

 

Prizes:

• First Prize: $50 gift certificate to Sublime Stitching, $50 gift certificate to Fred Flare, and a copy of the book Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things.
• Second Prize: Sublime Stitching Craft Pad and Sublime Stitching Lotus Flower Journal, and a copy of Amy Butler's Midwest Modern.
• Third prize: Sublime Stitching Lotus Flower Journal and Issue 8 of Mixtape Zine.

Winners hand picked by our own Jenny Hart and the awesome Autumn Wiggins, of The Upcycle Exchange, and regular contributor to Crafting a Green World.

To see more entries check out our Customer Gallery.  

 

If you're like us, you recycle glass plastic and paper, compost your food waste and take your own shopping bag when you go to the store. Right? ("Of course!") So do you ever think, "why do I need a trash can at all?" What's going in there? Well, take a look at the leftovers, get inspired, and create some handmade treasures from so-called trash! We wanna see how you can creatively re-purpose items that you have lying around the house, unused, or that might haveotherwise ended up getting thrown 'away'. Perish the thought!

For your edification: The term 'upcycling' was coined by William McDonough and Michael Braungart, authors of Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things. Their belief is that we can eliminate the concept of waste altogether if everything we make is either biodegradable, infinitely recyclable, or upcycled.

How to Enter:

• Create something made of items that would have otherwise been thrown away or recycled (stained shirt, chipped glass). While we admit to being partial to embroidery, we will accept entries of any kind!
• Submit a photo of your entry by April 27, 2009 to the Sublime Stitching Customer Gallery. When you create the name for your project be sure to begin with the word "Upcycled". (For example "Upcycled Book Mark") This is important because otherwise we may not see your submission. That would be a bummer.

 Prizes:

• First Prize:  $50 gift certificate to Sublime Stitching, $50 gift certificate to Fred Flare, and a copy of Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things.
• Second Prize:  Sublime Stitching Craft Pad and Sublime Stitching Lotus Flower Journal, and a copy of Amy Butler's Midwest Modern.
• Third prize:  Sublime Stitching Lotus Flower Journal and Issue 8 of Mixtape Zine.

Who's the Boss?

Entries will be judged by our own Jenny Hart and the awesome Autumn Wiggins, of The Upcycle Exchange, and regular contributor to Crafting a Green World.

Looking for Inspiration?

Upcycled Napkin Ring Tutorial

GreenUpgrader

Crafting a Green World

Wiliam McDonough on Ted Talks

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We got out the magnifying glass and carefully inspected the numerous entries we received for the Sublime Stitching Micro Monogram challenge. After much squinting and eye-strain, we selected a winner whose project really stood out! (Under a microscope, that is) Melissa Taylor of Hill Air Force Base in Utah, submitted the teensiest little tiny monograms on wee little pillowcases! I'll admit it: the pillowcase and tiny bed setting is what clinched it. Congratulations! Melissa will be receiving a complete boxed set of the first year of CRAFT!  But please don't miss the other wonderful entries worthy of note that we are showcasing in Sublime Stitching Customer Gallery. We received more entries than we could show, and want to thank everyone who entered! Check back again soon for a new challenge to your stitches. 

 

Could this be the teensiest monogrammed pillow ever? Look how huge my finger looks next to it! Measuring in at a darling 1.5" square, it's about the right size for a mouse to lay its precious, worried mousy head upon. Think you can do tinier? Prove it. Stitch it!

Tiny Monogram Challenge!
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Prize: Boxed Set of Craft: The First Year (Issues 1-4)
(including the first issue with Jenny's interview and embroidered skateboard project!)

How: Submit via the Customer Gallery!
We'll post our favorite submissions and the winner.

Deadline: Tuesday, January 20 (winner announced Jan. 23)

Rules: Not many. We will select the tiniest and most aesthetically pleasing embroidered pillow
(which is to say, our ruling will be highly subjective and final).

The entries are in and now it's time to vote for your favorites. Creativity 350 is a partnership between Craft Magazine, Craftster, Burda Style, Etsy, and Thrifty Fun who are helping to spread the word about the global awareness site, 350.org. You can vote for your favorite crafty project here, and the winner will win a Sublime Stitching prize pack!

 

 

Whoa! Sublime Stitching give-a-way madness is sweeping the interweb!

Place a comment on this Needlework News at Craft Gossip post before 8:00 a.m. (Central time) August 8 and you could win a pack of one of the 4 new pattern themes.

Craft up a project that incorporates the number two in some way, post it to the Indie Fixx Craft Off, and you're entered to win one of two exciting prize packs - each of which include our La Petite Kit.

Celebrate your creativity, and help spread the word about global warming, by creating a crafty item of some sort that expresses the importance of the number 350. Any craft technique will do - but hurry, you'll need to upload a photo of your project to Creativity 350 by next Friday, August 15.

There are two contests goin' on right now that I think you should know about. The first is the Banner Contest at the lovely embroidery blog Feeling Stitchy. The top 5 finalists will be chosen by our very own, Jenny Hart and the winner will be selected by the readers. (With glamorous prizes and exciting merchandise just waiting to be won...)

The second is the Mad Tea (Towel) Party. From the site: "In summer 2008, Nicholas Gallery, located in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, will host an exhibit of tea towels from all over the world. Functional and non-functional entries are sought. Whether you're a designer with a line of functional tea towels, or an artist curious about pushing a mundane form in an exciting new direction, we'd love to hear from you."

Better get busy - can't wait to see what you come up with!

 

 

Faythe Levine has launched a new fundraiser for her film Handmade Nation. The March package includes: