YOUTH VENDORS

Willy Brown Operation Sock Monkey - Jeffrey Cane

LL+P - Lliam & Piper BoothMarina Wilson

Luvely Stitches - Yasmina MaleGolden Moon Treasures - Azzurra & Sonika Woodfine

SPRING 2012

VENDORSAnna Jane McIntyre's Stuff

bookhoucharlotte & stewart DoublenautFalconwrightFidoodleFieldguidedFieldguidedGirl Can CreateHave & Hold Design

Jack DylanKid IcarusKnotted NestKrystal Specklemonadelemonadelines by: davis

Nathalie-Roze & Co.Needle Book

Nouveau Riche VintageOld WestonPaper Pusher

Papersnake Jewellery Papersnake Jewellery Rare Specimens

Raymond Biesinger Illustration rcboisjoli

Spot On DesignsSweetie Pie Pressthe arthurthe workroomthe workroom

Woolfe Island WoolworksWORN Fashion Journal

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What is your best vintage/rummage find ever?There are too many things! A few years ago I bought an antique phonograph horn and an ancient gorgeous metal construction truck that has a windup digger from Puces Libres in Montreal. My dad bought me an old Tibetan bell from a London, England street market and my mum bought me last year an amazing windup farm my mum bought me last year an amazing windup farm tractor from the early 1900's. My brother got me some very old beautiful funny wooden doll shaped wine-stoppers. My mum's friend gave me a gorgeous andancient wheezy concertina accordion. I've rescued oodles of toys from Salvation Army's too! Pfff I could go forever....

What is currently your favourite craft?I love wooden doll making, am intrigued to try felting animals and I am learning to knit.

What’s your favourite part about spring?Mmmm warmer weather and people looking extra-optimistic and excited about things.

Odds and sods. Everything from toys I've made, to prints, to things I've collected.

What kind of products will you have for sale?

Tell us about yourselfI am a multidisciplinary visual artist. My making involves drawing, sculpture, lots of repurposing, glitter and micro-activisms. I adore rescuingtoys!

ANNA JANE MCINTYRE

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www.bookhou.com

What is your best vintage/rummage find ever?a vintage office specialty flat file cabinet I found on mystreet, in perfect condition. It houses my metal type andour printing press rests on top.

What is currently your favourite craft?I do a lot of sewing, but I really enjoy doing embroidery. I like that it’s portable.

What’s your favourite part about spring?for me - just being outside without a heavy coat and boots, I feel that spring makes everything seem to come alive.

What kind of products will you have for sale?I will have bags and tea towels and I will also have an assortment of fabric remnants and seconds.

Tell us about yourselfbookhou is a family run business that believes in slow design and each piece we make is made one at a time, by hand. we use materials that are organic or eco-friendly and features our screen printed drawings.features our screen printed drawings.

BOOKHOU

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www.doublenaut.com

What is your best vintage/rummage find ever?vintage stools, boxes, benches tables from a metal working warehouse for $40

What is currently your favourite craft?posters!

What’s your favourite part about spring?the warm weather, being able to ride my motorcycle again

What kind of products will you have for sale?We'll have silkscreened gigposters and artprints for sale as well as t-shirts.

Tell us about yourselfWe are designers living and working in Toronto. We're probably best known for our silkscreened posters.

DOUBLENAUT

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www.falconwright.com

What is your best vintage/rummage find ever?Danielle is an amazing thrifter/auction hunter, while I on the other hand lack the patience required to find the hidden gems. Fun fact: our collaboration started when Danielle found a bag of leather scraps at a Cobourg thrift store. Rummage is in our roots.

What’s your favourite part about spring?How a little sunshine and some fresh greenery can restore a much depleated reserve of optimism. Spring just makes you feel good.

What kind of products will you have for sale?We will have a variety of colourful clutches, wallet pouches, card holders, and change purses!

Tell us about yourselfFalconwright is a line of screen printed leather goods handmade in Toronto by Sandi Falconer and Danielle Wright. We both love the smell of leather, and do not think highly of raisins.highly of raisins.

FALCONWRIGHT

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www.fieldguided.com

What is your best vintage/rummage find ever?Oh, there are so many! But Geoff once found a Polaroid 360 camera at an antiques market for $10 and it's one of our favourite cameras in our collection.

What is currently your favourite craft?We just found a DIY for making hanging plant holders out of rope and are pretty excited to try it out.

What’s your favourite part about spring?Cherry blossoms and light jackets.

What kind of products will you have for sale?We'll have our usual assortment of prints and canvas totes as well as our new collection of silk scarves.

Tell us about yourselfFieldguided is Geoff and Anabela. We live in the Dufferin Grove area of Toronto with our two cats, and like to spend our time riding our bikes, drinking coffee, and taking pictures.

FIELDGUIDED

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www.fidoodle.com

What is your best vintage/rummage find ever?Hardest question ever! In the top might be my antique It’s something that my Oma gave me actually. This little plastic penguin (a lot like Pingu) that waddles down an incline when it’s placed at the top. It belonged to my uncle when he was a boy.

What is currently your favourite craft?Printing on wood, but right now I’m also printing on fabric and paper again and I’m loving it.

What’s your favourite part about spring?The sunlight and long shadows of early evening. Nothing like watching my kids’ fascination with making their shadows do funny things with the warm sun on our backs.

What kind of products will you have for sale?I’ll have maple wooden blocks, dolls, and DIY etc. for sale,as well as flipbooks ‘on sale’ with other past project pieces.

Tell us about yourselfFidoodle is my ongoing project for the production of artful objectsinspired by storytelling, and creative play. Built from natural materials, cardboard, and paper, many of the pieces are intended to instigate pieces are intended to instigate some kind of interactive playfulness.

FIDOODLE

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www.girlcancreate.com

What is your best vintage/rummage find ever?As a collector of papers and ephemera, i absolutely was so tickled to find a great scrapbook from 1892. Or most recently i found a box of letters and photos from a woman named Olive. I will be using some of her pieces in an upcoming solo show at the James North Art Collective in Hamilton!Collective in Hamilton!

What is currently your favourite craft?I am in deep love with english paper piecing, and am working on a quilt for a friend's baby. I hope that in the next few months to introduce some more textiles in with my collage work.

What kind of products will you have for sale?I will have collages on wood, and on paper. I will havelimited edition prints. I will have buttons and magnets created from the papers that i don't use in my collage. I will have vintage paper packs! And i will have a small selection of watercolour paintings from a series that i have been working on for quite some time called People have been working on for quite some time called People I See.

Tell us about yourselfGirlCanCreate is the creative umbrella that i work under. Aside from my creativity coaching and performance work, i make art out of old photos, long lost letters, paint and paper.and paper.

GIRL CAN CREATE

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www.haveandholddesign.com

What is your best vintage/rummage find ever?I have an old clay horse "piggy bank" that I found at a flea market in Ottawa. It's hand-painted in beautiful bright colours and it's quite the decor piece in my studio.

What is currently your favourite craft?I absolutely love hopping on my sewing machine, for whatever reason.

What’s your favourite part about spring?The smell of the earth and grass growing again.

What kind of products will you have for sale?All kinds of greeting cards: painted, stamped and collaged. There will also be photobooth props for sale and painted natural canvas banners.

Tell us about yourselfSamantha Dubeau created Have & Hold Design with one simple idea: lifeshould be celebrated.Have & Hold Design specializes in bespoke stationery and handmade decor, props and display pieces that decor, props and display pieces that are meant to make every special

event just that–special. The goal is to create beautiful event pieces that no guest will want to throw out. One of Samantha's greatest thrills as a designer is mixing unexpected materials and techniques in her work.

HAVE & HOLD DESIGN

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www.kidicarus.ca

What is your best vintage/rummage find ever?A stovetop espresso pot from a garage sale and this beatup wooden box. We use it at craft shows for merch, flip it over, it doubles as a display table which we use in many of our product shots.

What is currently your favourite craft?Bianca: DIY decorations for a friend who is getting married later this year.Mike: paper cutouts printed and constructed to create 3 dimensional things.

What’s your favourite part about spring?Bianca: Seeing the first buds sprout from trees and thinking about what seeds to plant for the upcoming gardening season.Mike: Spring is a little slower around the printshop, so I get to take those incubating ideas and turn them into prints.

What kind of products will you have for sale?Bianca: Aside from our usual Collection of Greeting Cards, Wrapping Paper, and Letter Writing sets, we will have a ton of Scrap Paper Bundles, Ribbon and Twine and rubber stamps as well.

Tell us about yourselfMike: Kid Icarus is made up of Bianca and myself. We design and screen print all of our product line, mainly focusing on paper goods. We also have a retail store in Kensington Market.Market.

KID ICARUS

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www.knottednest.etsy.com

What is your best vintage/rummage find ever?I once found a beautiful deep blue underwood typewriter on the side of the road which is now one of my favourite things in our livingroom.

What is currently your favourite craft?My favourite place to be is sitting at my sewing machine, but I did recently do some natural dyeing and can't wait to do more!

What’s your favourite part about spring?It would have to be seeing which plants sprout up in my garden and getting the vegetable seeds started.

What kind of products will you have for sale?I'll have a variety of items ranging from napkins and wallets, to knitting needle rolls and embroidery pieces. As for rummage, you can expect some fabric packs, notions, and buttons.

Tell us about yourselfKnotted Nest is an independent business that takes vintage fabrics and brings them new life as housewares and accessories. Everything is lovingly designed and handmade in my east end studio.handmade in my east end studio.

KNOTTED NEST

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www.krystalspeck.com

What is your best vintage/rummage find ever?My best find this year was a gorgeous army green wool peacoat from the 60s. It's so sturdy & well sewn. They don't make them like they used to!

What is currently your favourite craft?Other than the clay craft, it's always textiles that get me.

What’s your favourite part about spring?That perfect spring smell! You know, the wet grass & earth one?

What kind of products will you have for sale?I'll be selling my line of colourful, patterned pottery. Mugs, bowls, vases, you name it! And also my newest item: hand-formed porcelain spoons with reclaimed leather handles.

Tell us about yourselfMy name is Krystal Speck & I make handmade porcelain pottery.

KRYSTAL SPECK

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What is your best vintage/rummage find ever?I once found an APC dress for $7.

What is currently your favourite craft?I tend to only be drawing these days, but I'd like to try my hand at rug hooking.

What’s your favourite part about spring?Baseball season starts up again!

What kind of products will you have for sale?Hand drawn cards, prints, Deadweight x Lemonade postcards, baseball card packs, tote bags, a few one of a kind necklaces, and zines.

Tell us about yourselfI guess I would classify myself as a freelance Illustration student these days. I am the 2012 designer for City of Craft (winter edition) and I make limited edition goods under the moniker Lemonade.moniker Lemonade.

LEMONADE

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www.bydavis.blogspot.com

and wax canvas and playing with simple shapes and colours.

What is your best vintage/rummage find ever?My best vintage find would have to be a set of modern plastic chairs that someone was throwing out.

What is currently your favourite craft?My favourite craft is quilting. I love geometric shapes and lines while I'm quilting. The best part is cutting out different shapes and fabrics while assembling it. I would love to take a quilting retreat out in the woods near thelake one summer!

What’s your favourite part about spring?My favourite part about spring are bike rides and sunny weather.

What kind of products will you have for sale?I will have t-shirts for kids and adults, home items, wax canvas + leather pouches and bags.

Tell us about yourselfMy name is Davis Khounnoraj and I am a maker of bags, accessories and home items. I've been making things that I love for awhile and I love experimenting with different textiles and silkscreening my own images. I and silkscreening my own images. I am currently working with leather

LINES BY: DAVIS

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What is your best vintage/rummage find ever?A beautiful 1920s flapper dress in silk chiffon with intricate hand-beading & foot-long satin fringe (scooped in an outdoor market near Nice, France for about $25 & a kiss - a bit fromage, but true).

What is currently your favourite craft?There's never just one. Right now, it's a toss up between silkscreening and sewing with vintage linens (on my 1969 Singer 'Fashion-Mate'). Typical split-brain Gemini answer, I suppose.

What’s your favourite part about spring?I've always had a crush on Spring - it's such a perfect visual metaphor for kickstarting the new, rebirth, fresh starts & all things lovely: gardening, picnics, garage sales & bike rides.

What kind of products will you have for sale?I'll be bringing a mix of upcycled & handprinted scarves, bibs, small accessories, vintage wearables, fabric & a few cool surprises to City of Craft's 1st Spring edition.

Tell us about yourselfWHO: Nathalie-Roze FischerI'm an eco-accessories designer, textile hoarder, thrift/vintage-hound & style writer. I run my own indie designer boutique & DIY studio (Nathalie-Roze & Co.) as well as (Nathalie-Roze & Co.) as well as organizing the Uber-SWAP &

Crafternoon tea events in Leslieville. I love creative recycling.

NATHALIE-ROZE & CO.

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www.needlebook.ca

that have a unique vintage look.

What’s your favourite part about spring?Spring is my favourite time of year, with tiny spring flowers,blossoming trees and fresh breezy weather. It also happens to be my birthday!

What kind of products will you have for sale?At the City of Craft Spring show I will have a fresh batch of needle books for sale along with handsewn wristlets, pouches, and pincushions. I will also have a small selection of wool pompom birds perfect for pretty spring decor. For rummage, I have a collection of sewing supplies in vintage mason jars.supplies in vintage mason jars.

Tell us about yourselfNeedle book wares are all handmade using rescued materials to add an upcycled charm. My favourite vintage finds are jars of old buttons and pieces of barkcloth, feedsack and lace fabric and I use feedsack and lace fabric and I use these finds to create items

NEEDLE BOOK

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What is your best vintage/rummage find ever?My current favourite vintage item is a pair of cherry red 1940’s heels that a friend and fellow collector just gave me. I have been admiring these shoes since her and I met in Halifax ten years ago. They are the shoes that started it all- they turned my interest in vintage into more serious collecting serious collecting

What is currently your favourite craft?Hand-knitting kills me the most. I have a really hard time leaving behind hand-knits when I’m buying vintage. I feel like I’m adopting them and often think of the title of that Mike Kelley piece (made of hand-knit toys) called “More Love Hours Than Can Ever be Repaid”.

What’s your favourite part about spring?Forsythia! Bike rides!

What kind of products will you have for sale?I usually sell vintage clothing but for City of Craft I’m bringing my collection of vintage fabrics, notions, sewing and knitting patterns, and craft books. I will also bring withme several antique and vintage tins, boxes and jars that can be used for organizing your craft supplies.

Tell us about yourselfI’m a vintage seller and collector, an artist and art educator. I hold vintagepop-up shops in changing locations. I am currently doing a series called “Night Owl” that happens at the Henhouse bar every few months.Henhouse bar every few months.

NOUVEAU RICHE VINTAGE

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are designed, produced, and packaged by Kalpna Patel in her west-end studio.

What’s your favourite part about spring?My current favourite craft is embroidery - an afternoon in the park with a hoop, needle, and thread is the perfect Spring activity.

What kind of products will you have for sale?Shoppers can expect to find silver and bronze interpretations of acorns, twigs, gold teeth, tiny birds, and industrial screws, as well as loads of beads, books and magazines.

Tell us about yourselfInspired by the simple, strange, and beautiful forms found in nature, Old Weston brings the forest into the city - transforming temporal treasures into permanent ornaments for an urban landscape. All Old Weston urban landscape. All Old Weston jewellery, accessories, and stationery

OLD WESTON

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www.paperpusher.ca

seek to engage an audience in an appreciation for paper, print information, and beautiful products.

What is your best vintage/rummage find ever?My wife! We found one another at a fair in Montreal.

What is currently your favourite craft?Always and forever paper-based collage.

What’s your favourite part about spring?The city turns green again!

What kind of products will you have for sale?All manner of printed ephemera! Posters, postcards, notebooks, greetings cards and even a little literature.

Tell us about yourselfPaper Pusher is Jp King's print/publishing moniker. Working with a wide range of authors & artists, utilizing salvaged paper stocks, andrisograph printing, Paper Pusher's small-batch print objects, small-batch print objects, publications, and social activities

PAPER PUSHER

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www.papersnake.ca

What is your best vintage/rummage find ever?The awesome black flat box that has dividers for all my crystals to hangout in before I make jewellery with them.

What is currently your favourite craft?Right now I'm really enjoying playing with old spoons to make my own sporks!

What’s your favourite part about spring?The fact that is the time of year when the days are the longest!

What kind of products will you have for sale?My creations featuring sterling silver, recycled leather, magical gemstones and love! Oh and let's not forget the SPORKS!

Tell us about yourselfOver the years I have worked in a variety of techniques. In the past I used primarily sterling silver and plastic toys to make my jewellery. A few years ago I hit the road to take a stab at the glorious traveling hobo a stab at the glorious traveling hobo life. While I was without my studio I

developed a new style, hand sewing recycled leather around gemstones. Since settling back down in Toronto this spring I have focused on merging my two different styles, professional goldsmith meets inspired gypsy!

PAPERSNAKE

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What is your best vintage/rummage find ever?whoa, almost impossible to choose.

What is currently your favourite craft?to be honest, I’m not a crafty person. I’m too impatient. I’m a get your hands dirty, hammer some rocks, and break some other things accidentally in the process kind of girl. rare specimens was a happy accident.

What’s your favourite part about spring?taking my super slobbery basset hound out for the kind of walks she deserves, garden envy, and monday afternoon patio beer drinking.

What kind of products will you have for sale?a variety of stud earrings in many different minerals: pyrite, galena, quartz, herkimer diamonds and more. if I can get my act together in time, maybe some necklaces too.

picking each pair to find a match.

Tell us about yourselfrare specimens is a small labour of love run in hamilton, ontario. I'm fascinated by rocks & minerals, and the memories of my brothers amazingchildhood rock collection. I hand chisel and hammer rocks and chisel and hammer rocks and minerals to make stud earring, hand

RARE SPECIMENS

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www.fifteen.ca

What is your best vintage/rummage find ever?Two guitars. They've been my daily drivers for almost a decade now.

What is currently your favourite craft?Black modelling clay.

What’s your favourite part about spring?Not much, honestly. I like fall the best.

What kind of products will you have for sale?If everything works out right, I'll have a new series of silkscreened prints available that show Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa and Quebec at in autistic detail. They're 24" square, two colours, and it took up most of my March drawing about 50 specific buildings and landmarks for each in the series. An absolute time suck. each in the series. An absolute time suck.

Tell us about yourselfI'm an illustrator and sometimes music-maker based in Montreal via Edmonton. My work has appeared in all kinds of magazines and newspapers, like the New Yorker, Dwell, le Monde, etc.Dwell, le Monde, etc.

RAYMOND BIESINGER

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www.rcboisjoli.com

What is your best vintage/rummage find ever?We love collecting old glass bottles, the best find was an original Charles Wilson Soda Bottle, made right here in Toronto.

What is currently your favourite craft?Ceramics will always be our favourite thing, from earlyJapanese wares to modern Danish goods, there is always something to love.

What’s your favourite part about spring?Spring means everything is growing again, though that means the studio gets neglected as we set up the garden.

What kind of products will you have for sale?We’ll have lots of functional ceramics, with many new items including a new yellow ware series. This is the first show to include a line of new textile work We’re exciting to branch into other areas of domestic goods.

Tell us about yourselfrcbboisjoli is a small design studio thatfocuses on domestic objects. Based in Toronto, we take reference from the everyday and are inspired by early hands-on mass production

RCBOISJOLI

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www.peneloperakov.com

What is your best vintage/rummage find ever?Ok, I'm not great at finding vintage things, but my best dude friend has a talent for it. He found my beautiful early sixties style couch for $150.00. I love it. Maybe he is my best vintage find....

What is currently your favourite craft?Well, I love what I don't get to do myself. I love wood work and furniture design. But I am always looking for my next favorite ceramic cup as well.

What’s your favourite part about spring?The smell. The moment you walk outside, and take a deep breath, and the smell of spring let's you know that winter won't be back for a while.

What kind of products will you have for sale?Lots of jewelry at different price points, as well as lots of colorful housewares like cups and small vases which will have my original murrine

Tell us about yourselfI am a glass blower who lives in Philadelphia PA with my amazing pup, Miss Ella. When I'm not playing fetch with her, I teach glassmaking at a variety of places, and work in my studio. I am personally am obsessed studio. I am personally am obsessed with the pattern making process

known as Millifiori, or murrine, which is the basis of all my work.

SPOT ON DESIGNS

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www.sweetiepiepress.com

What is your best vintage/rummage find ever?I would have to say vintage fabrics, once I found a hand-knit norwegian mittens from a thrift shop in north carolina. i think they were $4 but it could have even been $2!

What is currently your favourite craft?crochet...always crochet...with english paper piecing a very close second.

What’s your favourite part about spring?plants and container gardening!

What kind of products will you have for sale?pinback buttons, artist button sets (like the one by sandi falconer - pictured), my awards for nothing and lots of supplies and rummage. I have a bunch of items collected over my years of touring north america doing craft fairs, so if you are looking for a vintage suitcase, I just may be your gal.I just may be your gal.

Tell us about yourselfI’m Becky Johnson the sweetie pie press is a small one-woman operation run out of a cozy parkdale apartment. I specialize is small-run pinback buttons and button sets as as crochet and other ephemera.as crochet and other ephemera.

SWEETIE PIE PRESS

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www.thearthur.co/

What is your best vintage/rummage find ever?A George Mulhauser Plycraft chair at a garage sale for $20. Mini dream come true.

What is currently your favourite craft?My crafting time is spent making puppets, spaceships & airplanes out of random items found at home with my 2 kids. Airplanes are my specialty.

What’s your favourite part about spring?The light! The smiles! The energy! The MAGNOLIA TREES!!!

What kind of products will you have for sale?I’ll be bringing a tonne of little spring-y, fun pieces to add to your home design.

Tell us about yourselfI have an endless love of treasure hunting/antiquing/picking. I’ll put any hunter to shame with the hours I can spend in search of thrifty goodies. I have a shop at College and Euclid full of my finds.and Euclid full of my finds.

THE ARTHUR

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www.theworkroom.ca

notions, books and patterns.

What is currently your favourite craft?I have serious addiction to quilting and patchwork. I'm not sure exactly how many quilts I have on the go right now (maybe 10+?), but I can't stop making them.

What’s your favourite part about spring?My favourite part of spring is getting inspired to sew summer clothes as the trees and flowers start to bloom. There's something about all the pretty flowers that makes me want to sew cute dresses, tank tops and tunics.

What kind of products will you have for sale?We will be debuting assorted fabric scrap bundles that have been assembled by colour. They are fabric remnants going back to when the workroom first opened over four years ago. These bundles are filled with many special fabrics that we have very fond memories of. We will also have vintage button packs, coloured baker's will also have vintage button packs, coloured baker's twine, laser cut cross stitch pendants, and novelty embroidery scissors.

Tell us about yourselfthe workroom offers sewing, quilting and crafting classes in our light-filled studio in Parkdale, Toronto. the workroom also carries a curated collection of printed cotton fabrics from Japan, London and the United from Japan, London and the United States as well as all the best sewing

THE WORKROOM

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www.wolfeislandwoolworks.com

What is your best vintage/rummage find ever?Hardest question ever! In the top might be my antique wooden standing skein winder bought for me at auction by a dear island living friend two years ago.

What is currently your favourite craft?Spinning is what I do to sell, but knitting is what brought me there to begin with, and so, it's still my favourite. I got onto a real hat roll this past winter. Spring might bring some lacy scarves.

What’s your favourite part about spring?Definitely the return of green and all the beautiful blossoming spring trees and flowers.

What kind of products will you have for sale?I will be offering handspun yarn, drop spindle kits and fibre. On the rummage end, I have done a bit of studio de-stashing, and will have yarn, vintage fabric, buttons and other odds and ends.

Tell us about yourselfWolfe Island Woolworks is a one-woman yarn empire, straight outof the head, heart and hands of Kristyn Woodfine. Kristyn sources ethically farmed and milled wool, then dyes and spins it by hand from then dyes and spins it by hand from

her home studio on beautiful Wolfe Island.

WOLFE ISLAND WOOLWORKS

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www.wornjournal.com

What is your best vintage/rummage find ever?A navy blazer that was once part of a boys' private school uniform. The sleeves fit my short arms perfectly, and it has the best gold buttons. I found it at a Value Village when I was eighteen years old and it's still the most useful item of clothing in my wardrobe.

What is currently your favourite craft?Does nail art count as a craft? Because nail art is my honest answer. I'm currently experimenting with different kinds of spring designs - I've mastered roses, and I'm moving on to palm trees and sunsets.

What’s your favourite part about spring?The clothes - skirts and sandals especially. I love spring weather when you can still wear a cardigan, but leave your legs bare.

What kind of products will you have for sale?Current and past issues of WORN, pins, and gift packs, oh my!

Tell us about yourselfWORN Fashion Journal is a print publication that comes out twice a year (once in hot weather, once in cold) based in Toronto, Canada. WORN discusses the cultures, subcultures, histories, and personal subcultures, histories, and personal stories of fashion.

WORN FASHION JOURNAL

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SCRAPPY VINTAGEfabric coasters tutorial

PROJECT AND PHOTOS BY NEEDLE BOOK

Sewing your own coasters is a fun way to use small scraps of vintage fabric.

SUPPLIES- small scraps of cotton fabric in a variety of prints- cotton fabric for backing, 4" x 4" for each coaster- quilt batting for the interior of the coasters, 4" x 4" for each coaster- matching thread

TOOLSTOOLSscissors, sewing machine, optional: quilt ruler

HOW TO1.Cut strips of fabric that are all 4" long. Each strip can be varying widths from 1" to 2" and they don't need to be perfectly straight. 2. Arrange the fabric pieces as you like and sew them together using a 1/4" seam allowance. Press the seams flat and trim the square to 4".3. Place the quilted piece right sides together with the backing fabric. Place 3. Place the quilted piece right sides together with the backing fabric. Place the quilt batting on the outside and pin the layers together. Sew together around the outside using a 1/4" seam allowance. Leave a 2" gap open. Trim off the corners. 4. Turn the coaster right side out and press flat. Hand sew the gap closed, and top stitch if you wish. Done!

PAPER PINWHEELSPROJECT AND PHOTO BY KID ICARUS

TOOLS AND MATERIALSWrapping Paper or any Decorative paper. We used our Kid IcarusHerringbone Wrapping Paper.Craft knife or scissorsPencilRulerPushpinsPushpinsTapeOne cup of luke warm waterBamboo skewercutting mat or a stack of newspaper

HOW TO1. Cut the sharp point off the skewers and soak one end of the skewersin luke warm water. This will make it easier to push the pin through.in luke warm water. This will make it easier to push the pin through.2. Draw a 6" square on your paper of choice. Cut as many squares outthat you may need.3. Draw a line from each of the four corner towards the centre that is 4" long4. At the 1/4-inch point from each corner, cut a 1/8-inch notch on theright side of the previous line. 5. Fold each corner point into the centre, hooking the notch into thecenter.center.6. Tape the back edges down.7. Using you cutting mat or stack of newspapers on your table, push apushpin through the center in front of pinwheel, insert through thebamboo skewer at the back.

CITY OF CRAFT SPRING 2012www.cityofcraft.com

artwork - front cover (Caitlyn Murphy) - vendors page (Jack Dylan)other artwork by Becky Johnson

all photographs provided by vendorslayout and design by bookhou