Karen, from South Carolina, made this scarf of handspun art yarn of wool & vintage fabrics and then crocheted the yarn and combined it with novelty yarns and strips of cotton fabrics. She’s currently selling this one-of-a-kind scarf, and another, similar one, on eBay. One hundred percent of the purchase price will be donated to the Obama campaign (and she’s offering free shipping).

Side note: Poor Karen, she emailed these items to us a few days ago and then eBay took her auction down. While her auctions are back up now, we still believe Meg Whitman’s behind it.

Yes We Can!

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

Yes We Can!

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

If you took pictures, send us the link and we’ll post ‘em!

Yes We Can!

Yes We Can!

Well she has graciously agreed to be a guest printer at our Screen Printing for Change Party tomorrow, so you can get your very own Caribou for Biden item printed up on the spot! How cool is that?

Yes We Can!

Not only does it incorporate the Obama logo and the Ohio state flag, the font used is the Ohio State University font. If you’ve ever been to Ohio during football season, you know what that’s important.

If you’re planning on coming to our Screen Print for Change Party tomorrow, please consider bringing a T-shirt to donate that we’ll print this image on and send to this important part of of this very important swing state!

Yes We Can!

Can’t wait to see you all… If you haven’t registered, are in the Portland area and want to attend, here’s the link!

Yes We Can!

We received this press release today and are so excited about the Obamaware fundraiser!

On October 19th, 27 top ceramic artists will present “Obamaware,” a limited edition group of Obama/Biden-specific ceramics in an effort to raise money in for the Obama campaign. New York-based Studio potter Ayumi Horie organized the effort and will host the sale on her website, https://www.ayumihorie.com/obamaware.html.  The pots are by turns funny, hopeful, imaginative, witty, inspiring – and practical, including John Byrd’s commemorative Sarah Palin beer steins to Diana Fayt’s Victorian-style silhouettes of Obama accompanied by symbolic olive branches.  As participating sculptor Jeffry Mitchell remarked, making pieces for this project (“Elephants for Obama”) makes him feel he is doing what he knows how to do best in an effort to support an election we can’t afford to lose.  Potters have a long history of putting messages on objects people use every day – this is a literal example of politics around the “kitchen table” that politicians mention so often.  We can think of it as optimistic White House china: buy one, and our wish might come true.

Preview link:
http://www.ayumihorie.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=36

Auction starts on Ebay, Sunday, Oct 19th 8pm EST and lasts 3 days:
http://stores.ebay.com/Obamaware

You should also read The Kitchen Table’s excellent essay about the Obamaware project. It’s one of the best reads of the campaign, which really describes the intersection of craft and politics.

Yes We Can!

Ever wanted to try screen printing? Or see how a Print Gocco Machine works? Come hang with the team from the Obama Craft Project, print your own Obama T-shirt using screens we’ve created and make your own election souvenir postcard. This is a fun way to try out a new craft while raising money for the Obama campaign and a chance to make new friends!

WHO: The Obama Craft Project
WHAT: Screen Printing for Change
WHEN: Saturday, Oct. 18, 2:00-5:00 p.m
WHERE: The OCP Headquarters–our house–in NE Portland, Ore. (We’ll send you the address when you RSVP)
WHY: To have fun, build community and raise money for the Obama campaign!

To participate:

1.) We ask for a suggested donation of $10 to the Obama-Biden Campaign via the Obama Craft Project fundraising page. Please comment in the notes field that this contribution is for the screen printing party. (We will also have donation forms available at the event.) Please use the link to the Obama Craft Project Fundraising page, so that the Obama Craft Project can get credit for the fundraising, rather than the link that follows your event registration on my.barackobama.com!

2) BYOT (Bring Your Own T-shirt); You can use an old shirt, and light or bright colors are better. You can also make a commemorative poster using heavy paper or print on a piece of wood or vinyl and make a unique yard sign! Get creative! Almost anything can be screen printed, if it can lay flat: bags, sun shades, most clothes, wood, paper. Bring whatever you want, and we’ll help you screen print it!

3.) Please consider bringing a T-shirt to donate to our effort to send Obama T-shirts to volunteers in Chillicothe, Ohio. This is our way to show support for the hard work they’re doing in that very important part of a very critical swing state. Inexpensive T-shirts can be purchased just about anywhere: Target, Kohls, Fred Meyer. If you don’t have time to pick one up, we’ll gladly accept donations to help purchase T-shirts to send to Chillocothe.

I you’d like to participate, but are tapped out donation-wise (which we totally understand, given the dire economic situation), we’d love to have you come! Email us at obamacraftproject@gmail.com and we’ll figure something out.

NOTE: Please use the link to the Obama Craft Project Fundraising page, so that the Obama Craft Project can get credit for the fundraising, rather than the link that follows your event registration! Here’s the link.

A similar event was held in Austin earlier this month; check out the photos here.

Register for this event at the Barack Obama web site.

Josh and I will be manning the screen printing table, while the fabulous Susan Beal will manning the Gocco printer (which is so incredibly cool, if you haven’t seen one in action before!).

Yes We Can!

This Hebrew knitting chart was created by TikkunKnits, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (who also knitted and felted the Obamakah we recently featured). Thanks to her offering this chart, you can make your very own hat of other knitted item with Obama spelled out in Hebrew. (Click on the image to be taken to the larger, printable view.)

There’s more here on TIkkunKnits’ blog.

Yes We Can!