sewing and craft

HOT: Crop at Lightly Showroom, 3 Glasshouse Rd, Collingwood

November 30, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Melbourne loves pop up design shops and this weekend there are three worth your attention – The Design Files Open House, The Cool House and Crop at Lightly Showroom. Not to mention the popular twice-yearly Melbourne Design Market at Federation Square. Make that four! Design studio Lightly have opened up their two-level warehouse and showroom to 25 [...]

HOT: The Finders Keepers, Royal Exhibition Building, 9 Nicholson St, Carlton

October 20, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

The fabulous twice-yearly market The Finders Keepers is back in Melbourne today! Inside the vaulted halls of the beautiful Royal Exhibition Building you will find a delightful array of independent and local artists and artisans – cute, handmade, whimsical, colourful is the name of the game. There’s so much to see that it’s actually a [...]

HOT: The Design Files Open House, 40 Little Napier St, Fitzroy

December 2, 2011 ⋅ One comment

What’s better than a pop up shop? A pop up house! Melbourne design blogger extraordinaire Lucy Feagins has brought her blog The Design Files out of the interwebs and into real life. With the help of The Project Agency’s Esther Navarro-Orejon, Lucy has turned a swoon-worthy Fitzroy warehouse conversion into an even more swoonworthy display home [...]

HOT: Melbournalia Home, Level 1 Rear 126 Franklin St, Melbourne

November 17, 2011 ⋅ One comment

Stuck for a unique, Melbourne-themed Christmas gift or holiday souvenir? Then make sure you get to Melbournalia, a series of pop up stores open now in the lead-up to Christmas. Over the next few weeks four Melbourne CBD venues and one repurposed newspaper stand will host displays of Melbourne design goodness, with HQ being at [...]

HOT: The Cutting Table, The Social Studio, 128 Smith St, Collingwood

September 5, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Since I wrote about The Social Studio almost 18 months ago the social enterprise has grown and developed. In terms of their cafe, it has moved from the back of the studio (where it was cute but small and hidden) to a bigger, brighter and more prominent site right next door. I’m so glad that [...]

HOT: Fitzroy Market, Fitzroy Primary School, cnr Napier & Chapel Sts, Fitzroy

May 11, 2011 ⋅ One comment

As if Fitzroy didn’t have enough markets already, on the first Saturday of every month the carpark of Fitzroy Primary School sprouts the Fitzroy Market. What makes this market special? Well, it is small enough to enable dedicated browsing at every store and it has a lovely chirpy community feel to it. The market also [...]

HOT: Finders Keepers, Shed 4, Victoria Harbour, North Wharf Road, Docklands

March 28, 2011 ⋅ 6 comments

I thought it was amusing that the Finders Keepers markets were actually quite hard to find in the nether regions of Docklands. Once you did draw up to Shed 4 after a bit of searching, there were lots of treasures to be found at the handmade, crafty, designer market. Out of the 120+ stallholders in [...]

Portabello Bride Boutique Wedding Market giveaway

March 21, 2011 ⋅ 11 comments

Happy Monday! What did you get up to on the weekend? My weekend was full of weddings. On Sunday it was my one year wedding anniversary and RM and I had our first baby-free evening out, although we still had dinner at the parent-friendly hour of 6:30pm. Thank you Kat’s Cakes for our unexpectedly large one year [...]

HOT: Thread Den, 422 Brunswick St, Fitzroy

February 1, 2011 ⋅ One comment

Ages ago I enrolled into two beginners sewing classes at Thread Den (you can read about my experiences here and here). With each sewing class comes 2 free hours of machine use in the sewing lounge, but until now I’ve not had a reason to use them. Now that Thread Den have decamped from North [...]

HOT: Little Salon, 71 Gertrude St, Fitzroy

January 25, 2011 ⋅ 4 comments

Little Salon is a cute shop in Fitzroy (and the CBD) which stocks a curated a selection of lovely designer things for you and your house. There’s a little range of sweet, muted and draped womens clothing, a little bit handmade jewellery, a little table filled with pretty stationery and a little sprinkle of quirky [...]

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