Posted by admin on 8:51 pm
So, this proved to be a bit more difficult to assess than I thought as we had a lot of ‘dubious’ comments. Having checked the IP addresses for the comments we’ve only counted one comment per IP address. This is not foolproof but it’s the best way we could manage the process and to make sure we didn’t get multiple ‘votes’ from the same person. We need to get a better way to manage these comps! Any ideas?
Anyway, the winner of the Robson and Mason Haberdashery voucher is … well actually it’s a tie between Daisie’s boob and NiftyKnits’ Clanger:
NiftyKnits’ Clanger, a homage to Oliver Postgate, creator of many of the greatest childrens TV shows, who died last month.
Dasie’s breast or ‘boob’, which was inspired by news of Facebook taking down images of women breastfeeding
Nifty’s Morris Dancer was third and Lupin’s sampler fourth. Thank you all so much for taking part. Hope you enjoyed it. Was it good? Shall we do it again?
Folksy will round up the vouchers to
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Posted by admin on 12:30 am
We had thirteen entries for the craft as news competition. We’ve enjoyed going through them and seeing what news story inspired the pieces – and there are a range of influences and interpretations making this all-the-more interesting as a project. Huge thankyous for those that took part.
Laura from Robson and Mason (store :: blog) will be picking her favourite piece(s) to receive the books. You will be deciding who wins the
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Posted by admin on 5:59 am
image by: tenioman
The News competition closes on the 9th – this Friday! Since the competition was launched on the 8th of Dec we’ve had lots of stories to go at. What have you chosen?
If you haven’t seen the competition until now you still have time to enter. Post your entry to the “Make the News” Flickr group with a description saying which story your design relates to. We’ll post these here on the blog on Friday (closes at midnight GMT) for people to vote on over the weekend. The vote will be in comments here, like the Folksy Angels comp. Additionally Laura from Robson and Mason will pick her favourite entry to receive a selection of craft books:
- Weekend Crochet for Babies by Sue Whiting (Amazon UK)
- Beautiful Crochet for Heads, Hands and Toes by Melody Griffiths (Amazon UK)
- Beautiful Knits for Heads, Hands and Toes by Alison Dupernex (Amazon UK)
And that was the news today, good day
Link to Comp
UPDATE. Sorry, we (I) made a mistake when posting this article. I said that the deadline was the 9th when in fact it is was the 7th (the 9th was the deadline for voting). I’m really sorry. Having said that it was the 9th in this article I feel compelled to extend it this new deadline, so you have until Fri, midnight, to submit. Apologies again for the cock-up.
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Posted by admin on 8:51 am
The Guardian mentioned Folksy in their “What Not To Miss in 2009” article (in the Freecycle bit) along with Etsy as Craft Superstores. Not sure about the ‘Superstore’ but it was nice to see we’re getting some greater awareness.
I thought it may be worth mentioning things we’ve been doing to try to promote Folksy too. We’ve been working with a national charity to try to organise a competition for London Fashion Week at the end of February. The stumbling block is a space in London to showcase the work. We’ll find out this week if that is a goer. If we can’t do it for the Fashion Week then we’ll look at other dates later in the year. Upcycling charity stock for fashion has been a core practice amongst students for as long as there have been charity shops.
We got shortlisted by the new Channel 4 initiative 4IP for a project entitled “To Hell With Mattel” which was to be a national project to get people making things, a counter-cultural poke at our desire for cheap plastic imports. That would have been fun but didn’t make the final fund, mainly because we couldn’t have started in time for Christmas. It’s one for the future.
We also ran a small PR-y Christmas gift-a-thon to journalists. That was well received and we hope we’re now at least on the horizon of the writerly peeps. Upcoming mentions in Elle and Country Living amongst others, testify to this.
So, we’re busy and will have competitions and stuff in the pipeline to announce soon.
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Posted by admin on 3:07 pm
News is communicated in lots of different ways. Through images, which often become iconic (think of Margaret Thatcher waving out of the window at No. 10 as she was ousted, or sunshine in the artic for global warming stories), through satire, such as cartoons (I love Martin Rowson’s work) and of course through text. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a go at representing the news in craft form? Topical craft!
This post on The Storque prompted my interest. Obama mania crept into craft stuff. Sellers realised topical things, especially of the chosen one, would sell. I’m not sure that’s always going to be the case, but it would be fun to have a different take on the news, through craft (drawings, prints, simple made objects). So, let’s try and create the slowest news ever and make the news in craft form?
Laura, of the excellent haberdashers Robson and Mason has offered up
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