Wow, I had such a fun time in Austin! In case you missed the post detailing my full schedule of events, I traveled down there to attend a Texas Style Council meetup, rock it for Stitch at Tech Cocktail's StartupLife event (where we won Best in Show!), and I threw a 2-day conference-within-a-conference, SXSW's first CraftMakerCamp!
Going through all the photos from my trip I was reminded of how much FUN was had! Conferences are amazing, and I'm pretty sure the people who make up the blogging, crafting and creative business communities are the nicest around.
Here's the whole album below. What a blast!
Thanks again to all of the amazing speakers, panelists and contributors that helped make CraftMakerCamp a success. I was so happy to have every single one of you a part of it!
- Stephen Fraser and Darci Moyers of Spoonflower
- Grace Dobush of HOW Design, and author of Crafty Superstar
- Kelly Rand of Hello Craft
- Erica Labovitz of IndieGoGo
- Tara Gentile and Adam King
- Laura Fisk of Fisk and Fern (also a happy Stitch customer!)
- Jess Moss of HotlineDesignInk
- Melissa Borrell
- Jared Loftus of College District
- all our new friends who came out, said hello and joined us to craft and learn!
Additional thanks to our friends at Etsy and Austin Craft Riot for their support, as well as Ponoko, Cargoh and all our friends who helped us spread the word. Heck, even Mother Nature deserves a shout out in helping make CraftMakerCamp a success. Seriously, it was storming and cloudy for 3 days straight beforehand, and then Sunday morning, the clouds parted and wala! A mini-makercamp was born. (Given that our venue was outdoors, this was kind of a big deal. :)
Everything coming together like that can only mean one thing: Let's do it again next year, shall we? Hop back through the photos above and then mark your calendar!
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This post originally appeared on the Stitch Labs blog, during my time as Co-Founder & VP of Marketing. Stitch Labs was later acquired, so I’ve brought it home. I’m still proud of this one.