Craft Guerrilla curates Finamore...Little Shop of Crafty Splendors!

This August Craft Guerrilla are curating a very special weekend event.
We've hand selected a few designer makers to showcase in this tiny but perfectly formed shop in Walthamstow Village.
"Finamore" is a purveyor of fine antiques, collectables and quirky memorabilia serving as not just a restorer but also one of the first shops in the area to feature designer maker items.
Craft Guerrilla are known for selecting high quality hand made goods so we see this as a perfect and splendiferous chance to showcase so you can come and buy some mighty gorgeous craft and delicious curios!

Featured designers so far:
Honksville
Katie Dunne
Munano
Nursey Bang Bang
Zosienka & Rosie Illustrations
Ellen Mair
NC Jewellery
Tugba Kop
Neeskie
Made by Louise
Jimbob Art
Bobbins & Bows
and more tbc

*Open both days from 11am to 5.30 pm

August's Make Do & Mend Craft Night...

Yet again we're feeling the vintage love and due to popular demand we'll be continuing with the "Make do & mend" theme!
This month we'll be making the most of the theme by showing you how to use bits of pieces that you'd otherwise chuck into the landfill.
Tusk, tusk, tusk...we waver our skinny index fingers at people who do! We believe that everything (well almost everything) can be either recycled, re used and reloved!
Choose from the fab selection of ready to make craft packsor book your spot with the ever so talented Louise Batten of "Hello Battenberg". She'll be hosting this month's mini workshop.
Louise will show you how to make a cute and useful item using traditional paper pieced honeycomb patchwork techniques which you can then use on other projects at home. Louise will teach you exactly what you'll need to make throws, cushions and quilts.
Using those left over fabric pieces which you can't throw away this is a perfect project to "re use" and recycle. In these hard times you can't afford not to!
PLUS...You'll leave the workshop with your own pincushion!
£7 per person, all materials included.
Suitable for beginners.
To book please e mail Louise directly on:
louisebatten@gmail.com

Summer Zine!

*Cover by Isobel Kho

You can now get your crafty summer mitts on our Summer Zine.
Available as a hard copy and for those green crafters as a PDF file.
Check out our Guerrilla shop on our web site and order yourself a copy!

Summer loving...

*Photo: Honksville...The lovely Honsville ladies will be at the summer fair!

This is it craft loving people...tomorrow is the Craft Guerrilla Summer Fair and we're absolutely stoked to be back in Orford House Social Club. This beautiful venue had been sitting there unloved and unused for a number of years (well it was in use but not to its full potential) until we took it on in last years Art Trail. Not wishing to sound big headed but that's the truth! We love this grand old building and the people who run and use it...it's a pivotal and important venue in the local community and we wish more people would use and even join the club. So if you fancy having a peek at the lovely interior and have browse through the gorgeous hand made goods then do pop in and say hello!

Saturday 30th of July
Craft Guerrilla Summer Fair
12 noon to 5.30 pm
£1 entry (under 16's free with parent/adult)

Venue:
Orford House Social Club, Orford Rd
Walthamstow Village E17 9QR
Click here for map

And hip hip hooray the Victoria line is running this weekend!!!
For transport info please visit the TFL web site.

A sneaky peek...

Wowzers...it's only 5 days away and the anticipation is almost too much to take!
As part of our "sneaky peek" series where we showcase a few of our favourite designer makers we'll be introducing you to the lovely ladies of "Sasha & Elisabeth".
Blog readers meet Sasha & Elisabeth, ladies meet our blog readers.
Please introduce yourselves,chat,buy and discover the joy of buying quality,original hand made items! I promise you'll make a friend forever! Hand made is so much more then just glitter and glue...today's modern designer maker is all about offering premium products that you,yes you,sassy shoppers will enjoy,want and most of all will last you a life time.
See it's a great friendship already!

For further products please visit: www.sashaandelisabeth.co.uk

A sneaky peek...

9 days to go and the excitement is almost too much! As a little taster and to wet your appetite here's a little preview of what's to come...
Superfumi is a very gorgeous and lovely hand made company offering accessories, paper goods and a whole lotta cuteness!
Come and check out Superfumi and other talented designer maker folk on Saturday the 30th of July at the Orford House Social Club!

Threads & Yarns....

Our lovely friend Zeena Shah (of I heart Zeena) is currently working on a very interesting project which its subject we hold very near to our heart.

Zeena will be there as an artist by facilitated a craft workshop for this intergenerational project bringing together young people, the elderly and craft generating personal accounts of health and well being from the last 75 years.

She says:
"It was a great project to be involved with and I'm really looking forward to showing off all our hard work at the V&A Museum this coming Monday.
Do come along, there will be a host of workshops, fascinating and funny stories and interesting seminars and lectures too!"


You can find out more about the project and the Wellcome Trust here