Etsy Pop-Up Store – recap and links!

On Saturday, Knitta hosted an Etsy pop-up store at West Elm in Houston where we met up with some of our favorite Houston-based vendors and found some new favorites as well.

Peruse these snapshots of the good times had (especially with the presence of the Eatsie Boys trailer!!), then click around our fellow vendor’s Etsy shops:

Baffin Bags — bags, wallets + storage
Beyond Her — printed textiles + more
Black Kettle Soap Company — soap + skin care
Edie’s Lab — frames + home accessories
Hello & Co. — paper goods
Horseshoe Studio — fabric prints
The Little Illustrator — illustrations + custom prints
Lloyd Gallery — sketches, watercolors + small art works
McCheek’s Mayhem — ceramics
Orange is the Sun — handmade jewelry
Plodes — home design
Silverstone Creations — handcrafted jewelry

Unfortunately, our friend Lisa Chow couldn’t make the event, but check our her prints + other art! Hopefully we’ll do it again soon… Thanks West Elm and Etsy!

NEW WEBSITE YAY NY TIMES ARTICLE YAY

hello Alpha, my old friend…

what a lovely Wednesday this is….I woke up to many texts and emails from friends and family about the NY Times article today. I am having one of those moments where I am very happy to be me….kooky hoakey sappy i know……

ANDANDAND

My new trippy website is UP!

thanks to Mr Amazepants  Ruben Salinas

Etsy’s Sad Robot

Last week was an adventure: the Knitta team installed our largest scale project yet! We covered over 300 feet of AC ductwork in Etsy.com‘s Brooklyn office space. It took 20 (wo)man days and countless skeins of yarn. (There’s a contest raging on our facebook page to guess how many… get in on the action to win an iphone cover.) Jakob, one of Etsy’s general office handymen and expert driver of scissor lifts, said that before the installation the ductwork looked like one sad robot. Hopefully now it’s a cozier robot.

For more images, click over to our Etsy album on Facebook!

Knitta your iPhone

New Knitta iPhone covers have landed at Uncommon, and just in time for their Buy One Get One Free sale. Today through Thursday, May 5, you can BOGO for iPhone 3, 3gs, & 4. Just enter code BOGOCASE at checkout. Now: Check it out!

images and stories from A Knitted Wonderland

courtesy of Shawn Thomas, click on image to jump to his Flickr

There has been much clamoring for an extension, and we finally got the okay from UT’s Keeper of the Trees. We are so pleased to announce that Knitted Wonderland will stay up at the Blanton for another week, until March 25th.

After you check out the photos below, click around these links to see the blog posts and flickr sites of all the hardworking volunteers. (I’m sure I’ve left some out, so if we’ve missed your link, please post to comments below! It will be added.)

On the blogs:
Lora-Lee Blalock at Just Orb,
Sally Villarreal at Sally Comes Unraveled,
Sandra Singh at Knitting with Sandra Singh,
Brenda Tharp at Art on Art,
Cristen Andrews at Bags Begone,
Velma Metz at Velma Knits,
KnitHacker,
and Poppytalk.

On Flickr:
The Griffin School,
Shanti Deva via Joey Marez,
immarci,
Sally Villarreal,
Carolyn Bettelheim,
and Daniela Lozano.

image courtesy of Patrick Larson, click on image to jump to his flickr

Magda with the crew from the Griffin School

Image courtesy of The Griffin School.

Image courtesy of Mary Roland.

Image courtesy of Mary Roland.

Knitta Please featured at SXSW’s The Industry Party

These knitted stairs are in the lobby at GSD&M, an Austin-based ad company that’s teaming up with Google to sponsor The Industry Party on Monday night. As an official SXSW event, musicians Mother Truckers and J Roddy Walston & the Business will be featured, along with local Austin artists – including the legendary Daniel Johnston, Hugh MacLeod, Ian McLagan, Dave Mead, and of course Yours Truly.

Special thanks for this installation goes to our own Catherine Smith, without whom the project would not have happened.

Stop on by:

7pm Monday March 14th.

Can’t wait to see you!

(Don’t have a badge? Don’t worry! There’s still time to RSVP. Email SXSWparty@gsdm.com.)

Knitta Please @SXSW

In celebration of South by Southwest, Knitta’s been busy with a few goings-on this week. Above are the letters for Ink PR’s green room at the Austin Convention Center. Find more pictures and press about the thINK! room around the web: CNN, Ink’s blog, and Austin360.

Also, we’re putting the finishing touches on an installation at the GSD&M office in preparation for The Industry Party, a SXSW event sponsored by the Austin-born ad company and Google on Monday night. Other local artists will be there: Daniel Johnston, Hugh MacLeod, Ian McLagan, Dave Mead + many more. PLUS! live music from the Mother Truckers, J. Roddy Walston and the Business, and more. Show up at 7pm Monday to kick off the week!

meet our volunteers: The Griffin School

photo courtesy of The Griffin School

Part three of “meet our volunteers,” a series highlighting the Austin community crafters who are making A Knitted Wonderland happen.

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This semester, Magda has been an adjunct teacher at The Griffin School, a private Austin-area high school. Every Wednesday, she meets with a class of teenagers to teach the art and craft of knitting and hang out with some cool kids along the way. The group of 13 students is contributing to a total of 4 trees for the Blanton project. When they’re not knitting, they’re doing other fun stuff: for example, Ceci is teaching Magda to play eukalale.

For more photos, visit the Griffin School’s flickr page.

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A Knitted Wonderland will be on exhibit March 5-18, 2011, in the Blanton’s Faulkner Plaza. The project is in collaboration with UT’s Blanton Museum of Art, coinciding with their latest exhibit Recovering Beauty and UT’s annual open house, Explore UT. Come out to see the installation and hear Magda Sayeg, founder of Knitta, speak on Saturday, March 5th.

In the meantime, visit the project’s Facebook page and read about it over here at the Statesman.

the Blanton Project – a knitted wonderland

Photo courtesy of Carolyn Bettelheim, a project volunteer.

One week from Friday, Knitta Please and a team of over 140 Austin crafters will cover each of the 99 trees in the Blanton’s Faulkner Plaza with knitting (or crochet). The project, titled A Knitted Wonderland, is in collaboration with UT’s Blanton Museum of Art, and will be on exhibit from March 5-18, 2011, coinciding with the Blanton’s new exhibit Recovering Beauty and UT’s annual open house, Explore UT. Come out to see the installation and hear Magda Sayeg, founder of Knitta, speak on Saturday, March 5th.

The most exciting part, however, is this: community knitters and crocheters have powered 99.5% of the production and installation of this project. We could not have made this happen without these amazing volunteers. Over the next week, as part of our thanks, we will be highlighting some of these crafters right here on the Knitta blog. Stay tuned to learn about the talent and enthusiasm behind the latest Knitta Please project.

In the meantime, visit the project’s Facebook page and read about it over here at the Statesman.

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Update:

Meet our volunteers – Heather Sutherland of the Knotty Knitters,  Darrell Farris of Men Who Knit, The Girls’ School of Austin, The Griffin School

knitted iphone covers, now at Domy!

These are the iPhone covers I created in collaboration with Uncommon – they’re still available for customization on Uncommon’s site, but now they can also be found for a limited time at Domy Books in Austin, Texas. iPhone 3g and iPhone 4 covers available. Happy holiday shopping everyone!