“CRAFTS ARE THE NEW ROCK N’ ROLL”1 Bust Magazine Holiday Craftacular December 17, 2005 Written by Stephanie Lund Photographed by Mary Blanco

Bust Magazine’s Holiday Craftacular was certainly busting with the funk. And it was Williamsburg style funk as the fair was held at Williamsburg’s The Warsaw, a venue usually home to clubbers. But on Saturday December 17, 2005 The Warsaw was home to eighty vendors, a full bar (with a happy hour from 8-9 p.m.) and twelve DJ’s spinning holiday music. This happy vibe kept the Bust customers amovin’ and agroovin’ as they shopped for their holiday gifts.

Debbie Stoller, Editor in Chief of Bust Magazine

Bust Magazine’s Editor in Chief Debbie Stoller and Creative Director Laurie Henzel collaborated on the magazine’s first ever craft fair, which they hope to continue as an annual holiday event. “Crafts are the new rock n’ roll,” commented Stoller, who describes Bust as “a cheeky feminist magazine.” The art of crafting has come a long way from grandmothers sitting on rocking chairs knitting blankets; crafting has a new, fresh spin, and this fair definitely showed crafting’s funkier side. Stoller describes crafts as a way to “opt out of a consumerist culture and to reclaim work traditionally done by women.” Stoller is a NY Times Bestselling Author for Stitch n’ Bitch and Stitch n’ Bitch Nation.

Sandomeno, Handcrafted jewlery, Brooklyn NY
www.spragwerks.com

Alison Simonian


Rachel Matthews, Author of
Knitorama: 25 Great and Glam Things to Knit

The fair’s unique vibe was certainly helped out by the constant spinning by the DJ’s and the late hours of the event. The time slot of noon till midnight was strategic in that “we wanted the fair to have a party feel to it;” said Henzel, “we wanted people to get their holiday shopping done, but also have fun with it.” From lovers of crafts to lovers of creativity, there was something for everyone at the fair, fully representing the new face of crafts along with the face, or shall we say more appropriately, the chest, of bust magazine. For a subscription or for more information on the magazine, please visit the website: www.bust.com.

1 Debbie Stoller, Editor in Chief of Bust Magazine.