Product Description

You’ll find no die-cut teddy bears, cross-stitched friendship plaques, and ducks painted with bonnets in THE CRAFTSTER GUIDE. A hip collection of easy-to-make, fun-to-wear, and stylish-to-display crafts from the fifties and sixties, it features 50 projects culled from vintage craft publications, including more than 10 new retro-inspired projects. This unabashedly tacky craft compendium includes clear instructions, tools and techniques, and enough irony to fill a popsicle-stick purse.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #340824 in Books
• Published on: 2006-04-01
• Released on: 2006-04-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 184 pages

From the Publisher
* A full-color collection of 50 craft projects from the 1950s and1960s (including more than 10 new retro-inspired crafts) from the founder of hipster craft website Craftster.org.

* With hundreds of vintage photographs, original project instructions, colorized images, schematic line drawings, and contemporary color photographs.

* Leah Kramer and Craftster have been featured in Time, Jane, Budget Living, San Francisco Chronicle, London Guardian, and Houston Chronicle, and on National Public Radio. Selected Crafts: Cigar-Box Purse • Hardcover Book Clutch • Coffee Urn Lamp • Powder Room Poodle • Macaroni Glamour • Beaded Fruit • Felt Flowers • Glovely Lovelies • Plastic Bottle Piggy Bank • Doll Face Fridgies

About Craftster.org:

"This isn’t your grandma’s craft club. . . . Cross Martha Stewart with an urban hipster and you’ve got the idea." —CBS News Radio

"It has a sensibility that’s not exactly homespun. . . . Call it open-source crafting." —Time

About the Author
LEAH KRAMER is part-owner of Magpie, a boutique specializing in handmade goods and retro antiques; an organizer of the not-your-grandma’s craft fair, Bazaar Bizarre; and founder of Craftster.org. She stores her safety scissors and glue gun in Boston, Massachusetts.

Customer Reviews

Fun and Fabulous!
This book is chock full of fun and fabulous projects for anyone. The kitsch factor is high - these crafts will surely bring a smile to your face! I have found the instructions clear and easy to follow, and the projects have inspired a few kitschy brainstorms of my own!

there's a reason these crafts got lost
i really, really wanted to love this book.
I've been a member of craftster since the begining and gotten some awesome ideas from there, and this book got so many positive reviews.
But I don't buy craft books to say how fun the projects are.
I buy them to *do* the projects.

I can't really see some of them (the egg carton lantern???) in anyone's home.
There are a few little cute projects (headband, snow globe, book purse) but you can learn how to make them anywhere.

This book makes me happy!
If you want a fun book with lots of kitschy crafty history than this is the book for you! I have made a lot of the crafts and the instructions are easy to follow with no hassle. I would highly recommend this book.