Future Craft Collective will be holding a summer camp after all! Only this one is going to be virtual and it will be posted on Craft Magazine’s website for all you seeking some creative time with your kids. Consider it a sort of campless camp.
We’ll be posting our first project on May 18th and it [...]

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From the Book of Sewing Revelations
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What’s a Scrap Ball you ask? We stumbled across this idea during class one afternoon in that sort of lightbulb-over-your-head kind of way. The ball itself is a classic kid project – straightforward, sweet, and super satisfying to play with at the end.  The lightbulb moment came, not from the [...]

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We spent the weekend in the kid’s activity tent for the Art City Austin festival put on by The Austin Art Alliance. We were asked to participate to bring an element of Green to the crafts being offered to the kids. We realized after the first few minutes that we were the only green craft [...]

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It’s Earth Day people! We are continuing our pursuit of finding new materials and new ideas for those new materials. As per a couple posts ago, we have gathered lots of discarded triathlon materials from our local triathlon shop, Jack and Adams. This bag is made from an event banner and discarded inner tubes. The [...]

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So we like to play around with burlap and banners and other cast off materials and it’s all well and good and fun and creative and useful even. But if you want to crank it up a notch, and get into some serious upcycling you can can actually dwell in, you should check out the [...]

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We got some really cool materials yesterday from our local triathlon shop, Jack and Adams. They are starting a whole new endeavor in attempts to minimize their waste a bit. They are encouraging cyclists to bring all their old parts and pieces down to their recycling center so that others can dig through and get [...]

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We just did a phone interview with Diane Gilleland of Craftypod fame for a podcast about Future Craft Collective. Our podcast should be up sometime around May 1st and we are excited to hear how it sounds. We are grateful to Diane for allowing us to spout about our ideas and desires for Future Craft [...]

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Family Connection Collection:

He shoots. He scores!

 
Materials and Tools
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Heavy cotton fabric such as canvas or denim (old jeans or khakis work great for this or any sort of twill weight fabric.)
Lighter cotton fabric (bed sheet or other similar [...]

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So, Matt the Electrician is a Future Crafter at heart. Well, really he’s married to Kathie which gives him an instant in into the Collective (whether he wants in or not). He’s put together an amazing one day music fest to kick start his new collaborative effort called RelayTunes.com where you can download previously unreleased [...]

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These are some of the materials I’ve been playing with lately in the sewing machine…

Obama-Biden campaign banners
Wax bags from inside the cereal boxes
Coffee bags made of that sort of metal/plastic stuff such as the Cafe Bustelo bricks
File folders
Cereal boxes
Metal bags from inside certain cracker boxes
bird seed bags
burlap
plastic grocery bags

These are some of the materials I’ve [...]

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