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Venice was ACE!

We are happy to report that the time spent in Venice by the stitchery collective went by in a successful blur!

There was a great atmosphere to the carnival, and the kids, their parents and even the event organisers had a brilliant time making the beanies, scarves and ponchos. We had been given an beautiful room at the end of the main pavilion, and our jumping girl took pride of place, presiding over the multitude of workshops we ran over the course of the festival.

If you want to get a better idea of what we were up to over there, I suggest you check out this YouTube video that the Carnival put together about the stitchery collective at the 3rd International Children’s Carnival.

Brilliant!

the stitchery goes to Venice!

We are excited to officially announce our BIG news – Thanks to Australia Council and Arts Queensland, we are representing Australia at the 3rd International Kids’ Carnival, a branch of the Venice Biennale. The stitchery will be running ‘WARM’ t-shirt upcycling workshops, where with our pint-sized helpers we will transform the pre-loved T-shirts of Brisbane into much-loved custom-made beanies, scarves and ponchos for our chilly European friends. We’re hoping our workshops will bring the joy of dressups mixed with the sunshine and colour of Australia to an otherwise cold winters day!

The past few weeks we have experimented, pondered and collected HUNDREDS of t-shirts to make it all happen – check out some of the things we came up with!

Ray and Gabe in Tassle Ponchos and T-Beanies

Superstar Sachi in T-Beanie and Tube Scarf

After our magnificent models had such a great time dressing up in our stretchy creations, we decided there was one more thing we HAD to take to Venice – GIANT ALL CONSUMING T-SHIRT MONSTER THING!!!!

The Fantastic Four succumb to Red Monster Awesomeness

Gabe and Sachi devoured by Blue TShirt Monster

As you can see, these workshops will have to be closely monitored so our guests don’t have AN OVERWHELMINGLY DANGEROUS AMOUNT OF FUN!!! There’s a good chance we will loose a few kids to the T-shirt monsters, but it’s a sacrifice we’re willing to make.