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!

Head on over the the Obama Headquarters blog and check out their photo of the day—a homemade “Hope” kite.

While you’re at the Obama campaign site, don’t forget to check out The Obama Craft Project Obama campaign fundraising page—every little bit helps!

Yes We Can!

Not only do we love Olympia, Washington-based Eco Stitch/Etsy Seller Talcott‘s interesting work combining hand printing and fabric applique on T-shirts and onesies, her message—originally posted on her blog—about crafting for Obama really touched us:

Due to limited income I had to get creative in order to support the campaign for presidency of Barack Obama. I decided to make tshirts to sell and then donate a portion of the proceeds to his campaign. So far the tshirts have generated over $100 in donations to the campaign—for which I am very pleased and proud. Of course, many of the t-shirts have also been donated to fund-raising events.

We know that many, many of you share her sentiment and we hope you join us in applauding her (and many others’) effort to support the campaign during these tough economic times. You can also further support her efforts to raise funds for the Obama campaign by purchasing one of her items from the Obama for President section of her Etsy shop.

Yes We Can!

This is just one piece (section 11, to be specific) of a larger afghan that the Ravelry Knitters for Obama knit earlier this year as part of a fundraising auction for the Obama campaign. As a group, the Ravelry knitters has raised over $10,000 for the Obama campaign!

This piece was created by Flickr user kejreeves, and it is part of the logo. We’re trying to track down a photo of the completed afghan. We’re sure that the collaborative spirit of this project—and this campaign—shone through when all the pieces were stitched together.

If you have a picture of the completed afghan, drop us a line at obamacraftproject [at] gmail [dot] com or upload it to the OCP flickr pool.

Yes We Can!

Delores Chamblin makes all sorts of creative crocheted goods, which she sells as part of her effort to support the Obama-Biden campaign. These pen holders are just one of the great items available. You can check her work out on Flickr or at her web site.

You can read about Obama’s plan to improve our education system here.

Yes We Can!