Handmade Detroit

Weekly Reader: Sewing tats and projects, Dally in the Alley

Each Friday, I post the stuff— cool projects, inspiring photos, call for artists, events – that I bookmarked that week. I hope you’ll find something in here to inspire your weekend making sessions.

Inspiration:

• A great thing to keep in mind: Be willing to knit poorly on whipup
• How to be a Handmade Marketer on Modish
• Sewing Tattoo pool on Flickr
• The Ambassador of Handmade in the NYTimes
• Fashion blog The Clothes Horse is my new online obsession.
• A really awesome slash gross plush on Craft.

Projects:

• Super duper cute produce bag tutorial on Jek’s blog (via CRAFT)
• Sew Mama Sew will be posting houseware tutorials all of September so check back often!
• Submit a message to Something’s Hiding in Here’s new project.
• “Visualize your quilts without cutting your fabric“ by badskirt (via whipup)
• Tackle thos unfinished sewing projects with a little Sparkle Power Sew Along action.

Calls and events:

• It’s totes Dally in the Alley weekend. Oh summer, where did you go?
• Share your skills in the Instructables Craft Skills Contest. Deadline is Sept. 27.
• (SCENE) Metrospace has a call for propsals for “Robots/Love/Future.”
• Calling all Detroiters: Have you made a Kwame craft? We want to see it! E-mail photos to stephanie {AT!} handmadedetroit {dot}com

Previously on Weekly Reader.