About DIY Alert!

DIY Alert is your one-stop calendar for craft events, craft classes, and craft groups in Portland, Oregon and surrounding areas.

Portland, Oregon has an incredible crafty culture. If you know where to look, you can find a sewing class, craft fair, knitting circle, or beadwork exhibit just about every day of the week.

Up until now, the problem has been knowing where to look. To stay on top of the PDX craft culture, you had to be on a dozen email lists, while scanning newspapers and craft-store bulletin boards. We created DIY Alert! to put all crafty events into one place, so that creative people would easily be able to find interesting things to do.

We also wanted to help all the crafty businesses, groups, and shows in this city to find all the adoring fans they deserve.

We're always adding more to the calendar. Have we missed your favorite crafty event? Have a suggestion? Please let us know!

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Sister Diane, sometimes also known as Diane Gilleland, is a big craft geek, and the person who created DIY Alert and maintains it. Locally, she organizes the Portland chapter of the Church of Craft. She's also the producer and host of a bi-weekly podcast and blog about all things crafty, aptly named CraftyPod. She writes crafty stuff for SuperNaturale, CROQ, CRAFT, and Whipup. She'll make anything once.

Katin Imes is a programmer, juggler, tiki enthusiast, and community-builder. Lately, he's also an avid Second Life dweller. He's known as "The Geek who can Speak," due to his uncanny ability to translate technical concepts into plain English for non-technical people.