Urban Craft Uprising is Seattle's largest indie craft show! At UCU, now in its eighth year, fans can choose from a wide variety of hand-crafted goods, including clothing of all types, jewelry, gifts, bags, wallets, buttons, accessories, aprons, children's goods, toys, housewares, paper goods, candles, kits, art, food, and much, much more.

Incredible Edibles Plant Sale, Saturday, May 4, 10am - 3pm, Our Lady of Sorrows Church, 5329 SE Woodstock Blvd. Organic, locally grown vegetable, herb and flower starts for your home garden so you can harvest nutritious, fresh-picked goodness for your table.

Wonderful selection of both heirloom and hybrids among our proven varieties of tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, eggplants, eggplants, squash, greens, herbs and more.

Varieties offered have been specially selected for their ability to thrive in our Pacific Northwest climate.

Over 140 varieties of vegetables to choose from.

Simple Felted Handbag
Make a simple and elegant felted handbag out of wool roving. You’ll learn how to use a plastic resist to felt a seamless vessel—no side sewing required! For beginners or those with some felting experience.

Sunday, May 5, 2013
10 am – 3:30 pm
$70 – $95 sliding scale (includes all materials)

Felted Slippers
Learn to make slippers using a plastic resist as the pattern. Stuents will come away with one completed pair of slippers and the know-how to make more for any sized foot. Suitable for adventurous beginners or those with some felting experience.

Sunday, May 19, 2013
10 am – 3:30 pm
$70 – $95 sliding scale (includes all materials)

Holey Felt Scarf
This traditional feltmaking technique to creates a holey felt scarf—without using scissors. You will use just dyed wool roving, hot soapy water and the agitation of your hands to make a one-of-a-kind piece. After taking this workshop you will be armed with the skills to make many more on your own.

Sunday, April 14, 2013
10 am – 3:30 pm
$70 – $95 sliding scale (includes all materials)

Using acrylic paint and painting knives, you'll create gorgeous landscapes from photos and/or from your imagination. We will listen to music, and relax as we experiment with with the magic of paint and dreams. We'll cover composition, simplifying, color mixing, palette knife techniques and more. All levels welcome. Class limited to 6.

Instructor: Serena Barton
Register: http://www.serenabarton.com

To see a slideshow about this class, view my 12/26/12 blog post
http://serenabartonsblog.blogspot.com

Additional studio directions available upon registration

On December 12th, we'll be holding our next Knit & Crochet night, here at the store.

Bring your patterns, projects, ideas, questions, and meet some other crafty peeps in the neighborhood!

Swing on by after work and we’ll make a night of it. We’ll be here knitting from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., and will have tea, wine, music, good company, and some little snackies to keep us going!

And don't forget -- any purchase made at our Knit & Crochet Nights will garner you 20 extra points on your Supportland card!

"DIY Hems and Alterations"
on 3-hour class $34 (including $2 materials fee)
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Want your pants to fit? Combine technical skills and rule breaking to foster creativity -- learn to hem pants, adjust side seams for fit, add darts or elastic, adjust the armcye, insert a gusset and techniques for refashioning garments. This course is as varied as the garments brought to class, encouraging Seamsters to come back with new alterations time and again!