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Creativ Festival Workshops For The Crochet Crowd

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Mikey, host of AllFreeCrochet and The Crochet Crowd is back at Creativ Festival live on October 21 – 23, 2011. Mikey is teaching a series of three courses. Click each line for more details, course codes, and times of these seminars. These courses are arranged directly through Creativ Festival Class Registration.  

  1. Infinity ‘S’ Looms by D.A. Looms
  2. Round Looms by Crafting Essentials
  3. Rectangular Looms by Crafting Essentials

Courses were extended this year to provide more teaching time. We want each student to be successful. Each course has a limited seating of 15 people in the classroom.

Want to see a video on the excitment of Creativ Festival?

Mikey is providing the tools and yarn to play with. This has been made possible by D.A. Looms, Crafting Essentials, and Bernat.

Classes are known to sell out within a week. Be sure to book fast to avoid disappointment. Mikey is known to be high energy and fun in a classroom setting.

Topiari Sculptures by Everyday Crafting Materials

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Topiari Creativ Festival Sculpture, designed by Daniel Zondervan with some assistance by Michael Sellick for crochet materials used.

Inspired by Creativ Festival, Daniel Zondervan, marketing director of The Crochet Crowd was challenged to create an eye pleasing arrangment that everyday consumers would love to see.

The sculpture sits nearly 8 feet tall into the air when wearing the big blue bird feather head peice that is mounted to the top. Constructed by Chicken Wire, and layered 4 times with paper mache, the sculpture is strong enough to support it’s own weight. White lights were wired up before the paper mache application to ensure they would not fall out at any point. Also, he wired in extra wires that randomly poked out of the paper mache to give himself anchor peices for where all of the goodies would attach.
The yarn donated for this project were compliments of Bernat and Red Heart. Random stores were sought out to find little trinkets and goodies to decorate. Many items were picked up at a dollar store. The major expenses to this $130 project were The Hot Lips Paint, Assorted feathers from different species of birds, Chicken Wire, and more. The sculpture has a lot to see including birds, butterflies, dried flowers, easter basket fibres, styrofoam eggs, bamboo, glittered twigs, crochet flowers, bead work, wire wrapped goodies, bunnies, and much more.
This sculpture wasa  real hit for Creativ as many people stopped with their cameras to take pictures of this masterpeice. The behind the scenes look at this sculpture can be found at The Crochet Crowd’s Facebook Fan Page. http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Crochet-Crowd/116482731742088 This project took about 2 months to complete as ideas were still sparking off creativity throughout the project.

The Creativ Festival – Hooker Alley

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The Crochet Crowd - Creativ Festival Toronto Ontario

Michael Sellick, video host for http://www.AllFreeCrochet.com and http://TheCrochetCrowd.com , and The Crochet Crowd brought to life Hooker Alley at Creativ! Michael is a Canadian Crochet and Loom Knitting Guru.

He was invited to Creativ Festival in Mississauga, Ontario to inspire enthusiastic crafters on April 15 – 16th, 2011. The purpose is to engage members of his massive audience on YouTube live at the Festival. Make new connections with more viewers and see trend setting ideas at the festival.

Mikey and crew were swamped from the minute the doors opened to closing. The volunteers change from show to show depending who is available. Names from the Left Back, Mikey, Laurie, Lindsay, Colleen, Diva Dan, and front Left was Charlene and Veronica.

Mikey’s area was a partial resting area near food concessions where people could sit on the cozy benches and watch partial tutorials in motion. Many got up and eventually made their ways to the interactive tables where people could try loom knitting for the very time. For many, it reminded them of spool knitting or corking. If Mikey had a dime every time he heard that, he would have been a rich man.

About 20,000 people walked through the show for the 2 day spring event. Mikey also revealed a new to the market product for loomers. Starting May 1st, 2011 a new product will be available but we don’t let the cat out of the bag just yet. The product was a hit and sold out fast! Mikey will have this product again by his next show at the Ontario Fibre Week on May 13th – May 15th in Ancaster Ontario Canada.

Creativ Festival – Toronto Ontario Canada

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One of the largest crafting festivals is taking place October 22, 23, & 24th, 2010 at the Metro Convention Centre in Toronto Ontario Canada.

This is not a flea market… this is a festival of celebrating creativity. Expect to play with new ideas at the displays. Many hands on activities to participate in that are part of the entrance fee.

You will be able to meet Michael Sellick and Daniel Zondervan, known as Diva Dan and Mikey. They run a large how to crochet and loom knit channel on You Tube. Michael participates with AllFreeCrochet and FaveCrafts on a regular basis.

At Diva Dan and Mikey’s Display will be:

  • You be the star, film with the boys at 1pm and 4pm each day. They are running tapings of interviews of regular people who are at the festival. Looking for 3 minutes of fame, stop on by their booth. Mikey is bringing the studio to Creativ… so come on down and talk with us!
  • Mikey’s display is doing 1/2 workshops all day each day! Learn how to Loom Knit and Crochet using Mikey’s hooks and equipment. Donations of Yarn have been provided by Bernat and Coats & Clark for this festival.
  • Want to learn how to loom knit and do it for charity? Join us at the LOOM A THON at our display. We will have 6 workstations set up so they you can learn how to knit. With each successful length of knitting, we will cast off and throw the scarves into a pile for Charity.
  • Mikey and Diva Dan are donating VIEWER DONATIONS to children’s charity. The fabulous viewers of “The Crochet Crowd” have been mailing mikey samples to display. TRUST ME WHEN I SAY… the donations are a wonder for your eyes to view!
  • Mikey is doing several workshops on behalf of Creaiv Festival. If you want to learn under his direction and be guaranteed a spot… sign up through Creativ Festival to participate.
  • Finally, Mikey and Diva Dan take the main stage at 12 Noon each day… Expect to be inspired and laugh… We will be on the Fashion Arts stage near the entrance of the Festival.

You can purchase tickets online and use Mikey’s discount code to get a discount! http://thecrochetcrowd.com Using Promo Code 156MM you can get up to $4.00 off the price of admission. Also… Mikey has a weekend long pass for those who want to stay all weekend.

Hope to see you there…

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