Tag Archives: crafts

Festival season kicks off: Looking forward to…

By monnibo | Published: June 15, 2012

In the next two weeks there is an extraordinary number of community events taking place. Guess that means summer festival season is underway. Now if the weather can just get with the program, that’d be great. Thanks. Anyway, here are some of the things I’m looking forward to (some of which overlap! Oh no!) Northern Voice 2012 One my favourite annual conferences—Northern Voice is all about personal blogging and social media. It has a new home this year at W2 and I’ll be volunteering for part of it (my first time volunteering!). I was just a conference attendee in 2010 Continue Reading »

Posted in Out & About, Sharing | Also tagged a midsummer fete, art, bc highland games, car free day, community, events, festival, maker, mini-maker faire, northern voice, northern voice 2012, public dreams society, vancouver events, worldwide knit in public day, wwkip day | 1 Response

Bye Bye Birkeland… Sort of

By monnibo | Published: May 2, 2012

Birkeland Bros. is a 73-year-old family business in Vancouver, and earlier this year announced they would be closing due to the health of 4th generation owner, Cara. Brothers Olaf and Mike arrived from Norway in the 1930′s and set up a wool processing business in 1939 on Main Street. The business centered around The Old Lady—a two tonne 100+ years old belt-driven carding machine. So in the Spring, everyone was buying up fibre and wool from Birkeland—all the things were for sale. It was sad that such a pivotal part of Vancouver’s fibre history was going to end. It was Continue Reading »

Posted in Crafts, Knitting | Also tagged birkeland bros, felting, fibre, Knitting, misti alpaca, sweet georgia yarns, wool, yarn | 1 Response

DIY Dining Chair Seat Cushions

By monnibo | Published: April 16, 2012

My apartment is a one-bedroom but I used the dining area as a home office. This leaves the side of the living room as my dining area. I have an antique drop-leaf table from my parents’ house against the wall and have been looking for ages for the right chairs. I wanted four wooden, folding chairs for the sheer convenience (similar to the drop-leaf table) of being able to put it away or take them out. I managed to find two perfect candidate chairs in full working order. I got them at a thrift store for $12 each (normally $15). Continue Reading »

Posted in Crafts, Sewing | Also tagged DIY, do-it-yourself, home improvement, how to, projects, sewing, tutorial | 2 Responses

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