Vote for January’s Feature Weave contest winner!

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CAST YOUR VOTE NOW!

Submissions for Janury’s Featured Weave Contest are closed and the B3 team has done the difficult job of narrowing down the submissions to our group of finalists which means it’s time for YOU to cast your vote to determine the winner. This month, we challenged folks to show us their most creative pieces using the byzantine weave (variations and hybrids also allowed.)  We had tons of awesome submissions and now it’s your job to decide the winner!

To share the survey, we recommend you copy the link to this blog post and use that in any emails, blog posts, or social media posts you’d like to make about it (we’ve noticed some weirdness in the past with sharing the link directly – it sometimes like to bump people out of voting that haven’t already.)

Get a sneak peak at the all of our finalists below:

                       

Our contest is changing for 2013!

FEATURED WEAVE FOR FEBRUARY – Dragonscale


For 2013, we’ve changed our “Featured Product” contest into a “Featured WEAVE” contest. January started the year with a bang!  We featured byzantine and received so many amazing submissions (it was almost impossible to narrow them all down to the finalists above!)

For February, we’re featuring dragonscale.  This weave can be tricky to learn but is a big favorite among many of our community members and was enthusiastically requested to be featured by fans on Facebook.  Submissions for this contest will open in February so get creative and show us what you’ve got! 

 

Never tried this weave but feeling up for the challenge?  You can purchase Blue Buddha instructions for Dragonscale here on our website.  Like many customers we’re heard from, we’re sure they will help you conquer this beast once and for all.


 

 

Get January’s “Maillers’ Choice” Kit – TODAY ONLY!

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This month’s “Maillers’ Choice” kits are now available on our sale page. Scoop up your fan-customized “Celtic Visions w/ Glass Rings” kit today only from noon to midnight CT. Kit comes with enough supplies to create this fun variation, complete with optional mobiused edging.

Love “Maillers’ Choice”? Join the Club!

Add a “Maillers’ Choice” Club subscription to your order and receive all kits in 2013 to your mail box automatically each month. Please note that subscriptions purchased today will begin in January, so if you would like the December kit, you must add that to your order as well.

Thank you for entering our first Featured Weave contest!

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Wowza!  We just had to take a moment to give kudos to everyone who entered our first Featured Weave contest.  We had 40 entries (shown below), definitely the most we’ve ever had for one of our monthly contests.  You work is really inspiring and narrowing the pieces down is quite the lofty task!  Stay tuned to see who the finalists will be and have your chance to vote for the winner.  Voting will open next Tuesday, January 22nd.

In the meantime, thanks to all the maillers who kicked this contest off with a rockin’ start!

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Ask an Artist: What’s the best way to set up my booth at craft shows?

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It’s time for our first “Ask an Artist” post of 2013! This time, we’re looking at booth setups for shows. What works? What doesn’t? And how in the world do you hide all that extra inventory and other stuff from customers in such a small space? We’re gonna cover it all.

Because we have so many readers who are show experts in their own right, we’re doing this post a little differently. We’ll still be collecting reader questions, but we also want to collect reader tips and tricks.

If you have something about your show setup that has worked great for you, send us an email at [email protected] containing the following…

  • A picture! Make sure we can see what part of your setup you’re talking about.
  • A short description of what we’re looking at.
  • Why you feel it works plus any times it has not worked and why.

We can’t wait to see what you have to share and to tackle your burning questions from our own experiences. 

We’ll be accepting questions/tips & tricks starting today and ending Friday, January 25th. Your questions will be passed along to experts here at B3 and their responses will be posted right here on our blog early February. You can submit your questions to us by posting them in the comments below, writing them on our wall on Facebook or emailing them to us at [email protected].

Customize a revamped re-release for February’s “Maillers’ Choice” sale!

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B3’s “Maillers’ Choice” kit continues to be a hit! So much so that, in order to make sure our inventory can keep up with the popularity of these kits, we have bumped up voting by a month. Below you can vote for the kit we will release in February.


For February, we’re inviting you to customize a revamped kit for Rebeca’s “Japanese Cascade” project.  We decided to tackle giving this tutorial a makeover for 2013 and will re-release it along with this fan-customized kit for the “Maillers’ Choice” sale in February.  Kit will come with enough supplies to create a necklace and matching earrings (as shown).  This project allows for a lot of creativity when it comes to color patterns, so we’re letting you choose 3 colors to include in the kit to allow you to play.