Etsy Metal Trunk Show!

Please come help usher in the Spring with some of the Etsy Metalsmiths at the Etsy Labs on April 27. This is a free event!

There will be spirits and lots of beautiful jewelry to buy!

Friday April 27 6-8pm Etsy Labs 325 Gold Street, 6th FloorBrooklyn, NY 11201

Hope we'll see you here!

This week's Skill Shares at the Labs!

(our brand newest Tshirt design ready for the taking in the shop)

I hope you all will join us for the following skill shares this week and keep a look out right here for select tutorials following in the week if you couldn't make it out!

• Teusday at 3pm Mary will be teaching how to make beaded earrings.
• Thursday at 3pm Anna will be teaching another way to reconstruct a Tshirt in anticipation of this Sunday's up and coming T shirt party...hope to see you all there!
• Friday at 4pm Anda will be teaching how to melt plastic grocery bags together to make an even larger more durable tote carry all!Looking forward to seeing you all here and learning some new skills

Zipper cheat.

Stop by today at 3pm and I'll show you a stupid easy way to make your zippers in a clutch look finished. Everyone else, I'll post a tutorial tomorrow. Love!

Introducing: Skill Sharing!

Hey Everyone!
As part of membership to the labs, we have decided to start a program called "skill sharing." This program will include brief tutorials on basic crafting skills that will go on each week in a casual setting. At the beginning of each week, we will announce each skill that will be shared during the week, who will be leading it, the date and time. All members are welcome to stop by and learn the skill for free while it's going on!

We will hopefully be posting brief picture and video tutorials concerning the skill share later in the week after we have completed the mini workshops!

Soooooo come learn with us!

Starting this week, skill shares will involve:

1. Make a customized word metal tag with Mary this Tuesday (tomorrow) at 4pm!! You will learn how to use the letter punches to write anything you want on metal!

2. Learn new techniques in packaging and shipping using recycled materials with Anda during Wednesday's Tea Party at 5pm!!

3. Learn how to make a regular old t-shirt into a fab new halter top with Anna on Thursday at 3pm! Be sure to bring a T-shirt!

4. Learn a quick and easy cheat on how to finish a zipper in a clutch with Anda on Friday at 3pm!

Hope to see you there and hope you will check with us each week for tutorials following the skill share sessions!

Tea Party today, 4pm!

Don't forget. Its a beautiful day to visit Brooklyn. We'll be making something (we haven't decided exactly what yet) and you can help.
xoxo

DIY Dress Forms, 3pm Today

The Labs need dress forms in everybody's size, and we had heard that it was possible to make them out of duct tape. For real! Anna dug up this tutorial, and we're going to make some together this afternoon at 3pm. All Lab PALs (members) are invited to swing by and help us! If you can't make it, we'll be experts by this time tomorrow and we can give you advice on making your own anytime.
Have you made your own dress form? Upload a pic on our flickr pool.

Membership is now more Awesome (and other news)

In case you haven't heard, we haven't been charging our members for equipment rental- we've been putting them to work instead. There is a ton of stuff that still needs care and attention at the Labs; donated supplies need organizing, upcycling projects need to be made, etc, and we're happy to let you use the sewing machines for a couple hours if you donate some time towards unpacking boxes of fabric scraps for us. See how that works?
Mostly, we just want everyone to bring their projects over and craft in a big fun masse. We're constantly showing off new techniques we've discovered, shooting goofy video tutorials or trying to unpuzzle some project from Craftivity (p.s. it really is the best book ever.) So become a member and come over and play!