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Canada’s Top Creative Show – The Creativ Festival

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Canada's Top Consumer Creative Show

Creativ Festival - Canada's Top Creative Consumer Show of It's Kind.

Creativ Festival is back again on April 27 – 28th, 2012. Creativ is held twice a year, once in April and again in October. It is Canada’s top creative consumer show of its kind.

The April show is a two day event where consumers have an opportunity to attend and meet up to 20,000 guests that are creative individuals, businesses, instructors, celebrities and much more. It’s an interactive celebration where consumers can try before they buy.

They are all genres of creativity such as sewing, quilting, crocheting, knitting, scrap booking, needle arts and much more.

Creativ Festival has taken a leap and is introducing a strong social media wave for 2012. Stay tuned to their Facebook Fan Page for details. They are doing really good giveaways throughout the weeks leading up to the festival.

Mikey, from AllFreeCrochet’s YouTube Channel, is part of this lively show. Look for him at his Fiber Fantasy World. Look for his Hooker Alley Lamp Post at the show.

 

 

Bernat Mosaic Afghan Kits exclusively by The Crochet Crowd

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Bernat Mosaic Afghan Kit by The Crochet Crowd for Creativ Festival
In cooperation with Bernat, The Crochet Crowd will have mosaic afghan kits available at Creativ Festival.

At Creativ Festival on October 21 – 23, The Crochet Crowd will go live once again. This is our 3rd time going and we are more serious than ever with providing our followers with ground breaking deals on the show floor.

As advertised by Creativ Festival, we will have Bernat Mosaic Afghan Kits at the show. You can see all the swatches of Bernat Mosaic selections; we will not have every colour at the show. Based on a random poll to our audience, we selected the top 6 preferred colours.

The Bumble Berry Afghan that I presented is a representation of what each kit will do. This afghan took a certain amount of balls to achieve this. Using 100% of the same colour but due to the slow transition of colours, it really comes out to be a show piece at the end.

When making the above sample picture, I realized that if I would have raised my hook size up to 6.5 or size K, that I would get fewer squares out of my skeins but my afghan would have been much bigger. However, my kits are put together to accommodate getting yourself a complete afghan done just as you see in the video. The creativity in the end is really up to you.

So what’s in the kit?

  • You are going to get all the balls to complete an authentic afghan.
  • You are going to get a free written pattern to follow along to make this afghan.
  • We are throwing 2 complimentary gifts inside the kits that are practical and you will, in fact, use.

So Here’s The Deal!

  1. The total value of this kit as it stands just under $100. We don’t expect you to pay that.
  2. We don’t expect you to pay for all of the yarn either. This kit has been priced low so that the you are receiving free yarn balls.
  3. The two complimentary gifts are indeed free with your purchase.

You will be saving about $25.00 if you were to purchase everything at full retail price.

So what’s the catch? 

  • We have only the top six colour choices on hand.
  • We have only a few of each kit on hand.
  • Once gone, we don’t have the power to re-stock at the show.
  • First come, first serve.
  • No holding or shipping will be done with our afghan kits.

See you at Creativ Festival on Oct 21 – 23rd.

For more inspiration, come to my most favourite resource site for Crocheters! AllfreeCrochet.com

Coming To Chicago

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Mikey and Diva Dan from The Crochet Crowd are heading to Chicago for the semi-annual Craft & Hobby Association (CHA) Conference. It’s the first time for both of these Canadian Designers to head to such a massive event surrounded by crafting industry professionals.

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At the show, they are facing off in a Canadian Designer Challenge where they have created a mixed media presentation to be judged at the show. Up against 7 other top designers of Canada, including Television Host Wendy Russell of She’s So Crafty. This show is only for retailers to attend as we all are presenting ideas to inspire consumers.

Click Here to see our exact challenge at chicago.  Be Inspired – Special Event at CHA 2011.

While in Chicago, Mikey is meeting with executives & editors of AllFreeCrochet, AllFreeKnitting, FaveCrafts, and CutRateCrafts for the very first time. It is an exciting journey as Mikey has participated with these fine online websites for over a year in celebrating free resources to consumers.

The Canadian Dual, (Mikey and Diva Dan) are participating in several workshops while at CHA in order to better improve resources and crafting connections that happen all year long.

Last but not least, one of the biggest events they are participating in is the Designer Showcase. Up with top notch celebrities and inspiring individuals, they are displaying a table to intrique publishers, media, and other folks in behind the scenes that make this community tick. It is their hope to be introduced to new opportunities as they move forward in providing free content online to the millions of viewers that turn to them to inspire creativity.

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