Coffee, Craft and Community

What a start to the year it has been! Many people who do regular markets see January as "my crafty time", a chance to make for themselves after the madness of Christmas. While you've been enjoying creating pretty little things, the Northside Makers Committee have met and nutted out a few things for the first quarter of the year.


As most of you know, we have a market scheduled for 6th February, so we are busy going through applications and there are lots of them. If you have applied but not heard, do not fear, our online widgets have your details and we are hoping to have most of the applicants processed by the end of next week.

But we thought we would kick off the start of the year with another of our Coffee and Craft events at CERES. Good fair trade coffee and yummy gluten free cakes ... The weather man says that the weather is going to be fine, with a few light showers. We'll get a table under cover and enjoy the non-45 degree days! Bring along a hand-crafting project to work on as we gossip, sip and sup. If you don't have a project you're welcome to come along anyway!

Event: Coffee and Craft
When: Sunday 17th January, 2010
Where: CERES Environment Park, at the Cafe
Cnr Roberts and Stewart Streets, Brunswick East, Victoria, 3057 (Enter from Blyth street near Merri Creek)
Time: 1pm to 3pm

Other events we have planned for the first months of 2010 are:

6th February: Northside Makers Market, 9.30am - 2.30pm
17th February: Cider and Craft @ Northcote Social, 7.30pm - 9.30pm
6th March: Screen Printing workshop, all day
13th March: Northside Makers Market, 10:30am - 3:30pm
3rd April: Daylesford Daytrip, all day

More information will be released closer to the events. Keep your eye out for booking details for the screenprinting and daytrip events because participant numbers are limited! If you have ideas for events, or you would like to host a workshop, drop us a line at northsidemakers [at] gmail [dot] com or come along this Sunday for a coffee and share your ideas.

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All offers of assistance and ideas are welcomed with open arms. Be involved, make a difference.

Threads of Connection

2010 is the Embroiderers Guild of Victoria's 50th anniversary year. They have a special exhibition scheduled at the Shrine of Rememberance.

The following is taken from their web site:

THREADS OF CONNECTION :
A SPECIAL EXHIBITION AT THE SHRINE

Birdwood Avenue
South Yarra, VIC
(Melway ref: 2F J12)
(03) 9661 8100
Email - reception@shrine.org.au
Friday January 29 - Sunday May 9
10-5 daily (closed Good Friday)

The exhibition shows articles of textiles and embroidery worked in connection with any armed conflict in which Australia has been involved.

Items may have been worked to alleviate boredom, as patriotic home crafts, as a war necessity (such as socks or uniform), as part of rehabilitation, or as a keepsake or love token.

These talks are free but interested people should book:

• Friday 29 January, 12:30pm
  Threads of connection: wartime embroidery
  Presenter: Jane Peek, Curator, The Australian War Memorial


• Tuesday 23 February, 2pm
  Textile conservation workshop
  Presenter: Bronwyn Cosgrove, Textile Conservator, NGV

Coffee & Craft this Sunday

The forecast for Sunday is 24 degrees, so we're taking our crafting outdoors!

Join Northside Makers at CERES Cafe for organic chai, gluten-free goodies and homemade sausage rolls under the peppercorn trees. It's also a great venue for kiddies as long as you don't mind them getting a bit grubby.

BYO machine-free craft project for our monthly Coffee & Craft, Stitch & Bitch, Knit & Natter, Tatt & Tattle or whatever you'd like to call it.

Northside Makers members, friends and curious members of the craft community all very welcome!

CERES Community Environment Park
Sunday 13th September
1pm-3pm
Cnr Roberts and Stewart Streets
Brunswick East
Map here

And in case you were wondering, CERES (pronounced 'series') stands for the Centre for Education and Research in Environmental Strategies. Now you know!

Mark Your Diaries

Here's some forthcoming Northside Makers events to pop in your planners.

Coffee & Craft - Sunday 13th September

We loved meeting a bunch of new people at last weekend's Coffee & Crochet afternoon, so we're doing it again in September. The venue will be a bar on St George's Road, North Fitzroy. It may well turn into Cocktails & Craft! Feel free to make a suggestion of where you'd like to spend a Sunday afternoon.

Northside Makers Market Stallholder Meet & Greet - Friday 2nd October (TBC)

Stallholders only! A chance to get to know each other, talk about the big day and have a walk-through of the venue. We fancy the Wesley Anne, 250 High Street, Northcote.

Northside Makers Market - Saturday 10th October

Our maiden voyage! You'll hear plenty more about this right here and stallholder applications will be open from next week.

Northside Makers Mums Group - Once a month on a weekday

Being WAHMs ourselves we know the importance of a child-friendly environment. Kids welcome, or leave them with a sitter and enjoy yourself. There'll possibly be a little less crafting achieved and a lot more chasing after toddlers with runny noses, but that's life. This event is still in the ideas stage so if you've got a suggestion of possible venues or want to nominate a preferred day please let us know at northsidemakers@gmail.com.

Coffee and Crochet on Sunday 23rd August, Thornbury

Just a reminder to those of you who are coming, Coffee and Crochet on Sunday 23rd of August at 1pm - 3pm Crunch Cafe 669 (not 660) High Street, Thornbury, near where Shaftsbury Street meets High Street. Look for the green "Crunch" sign.

via Instructables Crochet Coffee Cuff pattern

Crochet and Coffee anyone?

Is anyone out there in Northside Makers land interested in a meet and greet over Coffee and Crochet on Sunday? Let's say, between 1pm and 3pm?

via PimPamPum

It's a bit late notice, but all good things are!

Date: Sunday 23rd August, 2009

Time: 1pm to 3pm

Venue: Crunch Cafe 660 High Street, Thornbury. Easiest way to get there is via High Street Tram #86 I believe.

They don't book tables, but they are happy to have us. Although they are busy on a Sunday, they seem to think that accommodating about 10 of us might be "ok". Map over here, click on satellite and you can see where the parking is. Crunch Cafe shuts at 3pm ...

Bring: Crochet hook and wool. If you are a beginner, let us know so that we can bring some books'n hooks along! Alternatively, if you have some hand crafts to do that don't involve crochet bring them along as well!