Our October 10 Swap in Venice was a smashing success! Halloween was the theme and the pictures tell the story. Check them out on our Flickr page.

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Yelp gave away totes! And YUDU had their new silk screen machine.

Sewing machines were donated by Singer.

Swap O Rama Rama is part of an international network of events created by Wendy Tremayne and protected under a Creative Commons License. Basically, it's a series of DIY workshops in which participants explore creative reuse from recycled clothing. You bring a bag of clothes, a small fee, and they get sorted into piles by volunteers. You get to sort through all the clothes and work at the various DIY stations and sewing stations to create new clothes!

Swap design stations at past events have included:

Sean from Social Studies and his Monster Art creations

Donna from 4 Idle Hands and Aldo from Social Studies with thier groovy silk screen stations featuring a bicycle, recycle logo and summer designs.

Tina from Miss Fruit Fly with her tote making station.

KB from kokoleo who does applique like no other!

Returning designers Maggie (now famous for her knitted necklaces) and Robin (who brings a wealth of experience as a design instructor ) and Robyn. Thanks Daniel for coming from Sew L.A. to run three machines!

We had some great newcomers to this Swap including designers EeLing, Karleen and Jane.

Thank you everyone!

Our May 31 event at the Santa Monica Museum of Art was a huge success! Thanks to all the volunteers and participants.

Here are a few blogs from the show: Kokleo, Raegan and Miss Fruitfly

T-SHIRT SWAP DESIGNERS FROM OUR MAY 31 EVENT

Sean and Aldo from Social Studies

Donna from 4 Idle Hands

Robyn from iggyjingles

Hollye from Kittybomb

Kay from the Academy of Couture Art

Tina and Aaron from Miss Fruit Fly

KB from kokoleo

Returning designers Maggie and Robin and newcomer Erin

And of course Me!

We had a great line up of Volunteer Designers last November at the Shrine including:

FreshPressed, who came with some of the coolest screen prints we've seen in a long time.

Victoria Gies, a creative costumer for TV, film and stage as well as a custom clothier.

Redewin, one of our biggest hits with Rebecca's fabulous shirt patterns and creations.

Yelp, which gave away tote bags, t-shirts, and groovy chapstick tubes.

Miss Fruit Fly, where Fina and Aaron treated us to a silk screen technique that was family friendly and allowed for total creativity.

The uber talented local American Sewing Guild girls manned machine and hand felting stations.

Hollye, a talented graphic designer who sews from Kittybomb.

And the Hollywood Costume Design Team of Laura and Stephanie, Stocking maker Maggie, the Talented Vicky, Robin, Hector and Tanya!

You can learn more about Swap and get event schedules for around the wolrd at Swap-O-Rama-Rama.

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The photos below are from our June 2008 Swap in Venice, Ca. We have had silk screening and monster madness from the guys from Social Studies (Sean and Aldo), book author Sonya Nimri, Hollywood Costume Designer Laura Wolford, silk screener Donna from Four Idle Hands, Ellen King and her great sense of style, cool stencils from Jennifer at Pintucks, more silk screening from the dynamic duo of Nichole and Morgan from LA Craft Mafia, great t-shirt re-do's from Trisha at Redrawn Arts, applique guru KB Van Horn and open sewing stations with machines generously supplied by Janome!