Repurposed: Blanket into a mixer cover

Abby (my sister) in North Carolina is also a crafty one - perhaps it runs in the family? She took an old blanket and turned it into a mixer cover. Check out Abby's story, blog and her handiwork here.

This looks fun...

Lion Brand Yarn Studio has a movie and stitch night the last Thursday of every month featuring a movie with knitting or crocheting in the scene. Damn, we're sorry we missed it! At least one Craftermather is a fan of the crochet. Is it because the word "crotch" is almost in the word crochet? We hope no, but the answer could be yes. We try not to judge each other. At least one of us Craftermathers (we won't say which) is gonna try to hit the next stitch and movie night, we hope to see you there.

You can catch us sharing our craftivist and feminist wares at a few great shows and events this season, including:

PARADIGM SHIFT

Thursday, Dec. 9

7-10 PM

Angels & Kings,

12th St. @ Ave A, NYC

More info at www.paradigmshiftnyc.com

...featuring comedy, feminism, crafts and fun. We hope to see you there.

Buy It Used -- Only one of Craftermath's Mantras

We were delighted to see this article today on Yahoo.com about 21 things to never buy new. The list includes CDs, jewelry and more, and we couldn't be more in agreement. Part of Craftermath's goal is to encourage people to reuse, recycle and reduce. Many of our crafts are made from reused materials -- even (our own, cleaned) garbage! 

We hope this article will help you to lessen your footprint. Buying new things can be a nice feeling, but it is simply not efficient for modern society, with the population what it is. When we discard old things, they fill landfills and spend fuel to get taken to the landfills. If we don't start taking that into consideration, one day our entire planet will be one huge land fill! Do you want to live on top of a landfill? Probably not, right? OK then, so buy things reused and encourage friends to do the same!

CRAFTERMATH's New Wednesday: punk crafts, film shorts, & subversive song! 5/5, 7 til 9pmish

We here @ CRAFTERMATH chose our events and locations carefully, and therefore they do not have a regularly recurring date. We especially like to do alternatives to co-opted holidays so the more creative members of the general public don't feel like they have to go to commercial, typical events (yawn).

CRAFTERMATH presents an LES alternative to Cinco De Mayo mayhem in a hybrid co-op boutique/bar!

Where: The Dressing Room, 75 A Orchard St. (btwn Broome & Grand)

FREE

May 5th

From 7 til 9pm-ish:
the CRAFTERMATH Creatives sell punk crafts & unusual art at a neighborhood treat-to-behold that features emerging designers & vintage goods. Affordable, unusual artwork - same goes for the drinks. Happy Hour is a real deal plus they have a permanent $ 5 beer & whiskey combo.

We'll show a collage of films by a special guest filmmaker (TBA) on the gold-framed movie screen. JESSICA DELFINO will share a new song, perhaps on an uncommon instrument. This is a flower & fauna theme: we'll have some wearable flowers in unusual mediums, and some tattoo-butterfly themed art, in addition to our anatomical heart necklaces, comics, paintings, etc.

Hoping you can join CRAFTERMATH for exciting & unusual fun times!
Weird (but friendly) creative types who enjoy cheap craft-shopping, fashion, art, drinks, music & film - meet us here!

More info also @ http://www.thedressingroomnyc.com which also has vintage/exchange/donation downstairs & some of favorite features (bar, movie screen) upstairs!

CRAFTERMATH field trip to NYC's annual EASTER PARADE!

Two members of CRAFTERMATH ventured to Midtown for NYC's annual Easter Parade on Sunday, April 4th. It's one of NYC's wackier parades, and has managed to have a tradition of about 100 yrs. or so, with very low key publicity. Plus the weather is almost always beautiful, year after year. Paraders get to be photographed along 10 closed blocks of 5th Avenue by paparazzi that mostly poop out on the parade's theme. The theme is Easter bonnets, but plenty of our fellow wackos delight in wearing head to toe Easter finery. Finery counts as 1950's flapper, formal any-era chic, day-glo, festive floral overload, and the ever popular: basket-on-the-head accented by beloved Peeps. The non-consensual dressing up of companion animals is also a tradition. Here are pictures of CRAFTERMATH's High Priestess of Peeps and Easter Disaster along w/some of our favorite Paraders. We were accompanied by our friend and comrade, whom we christened "The Ghost of Easter Past," who happens to also be a chair on NY State's Young Feminist Task Force.

Happy Easter, Peeps!

Hello and welcome! Look for us tomorrow, marching in the Easter parade. Hint: You'll know when you see us because one of us will be playing a pink flying - V ukulele!

Hello and welcome to our new blog. Our old blog seems to have vanished into the google abyss. They said that happens from time to time. Let's have a moment of silence for our deceased blog, pulled into the quicksands of the internet before it's prime.

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OK and now it's time to move on to greener pastures.

Check back here to learn about our events and crafts. Thanks for reading!