Urban homesteading can be a fun and fulfilling way to decrease your carbon footprint while learning useful methods for producing your own wholesome home staples. We will be exploring canning & preserving, animal husbandry and beekeeping, gardening and mycology, foraging and gleaning, home crafting and sewing, permaculture practices, and the use of native plants for both culinary and medicinal uses.

We work on any and all krafting projects -knitting, crocheting, sewing, embroidery, felt, beading. Any project that's portable, bring it on!  We get together to provide support and community. We bring PHD - projects half done - those projects we've been meaning to finish, but don't seem to do them on our own. If you don't have a project yet, come on over and we can help you get started.  Why this meetup?  We want a close-by location to hang out, get something accomplished and have fun! Our sched …

Get your creative juices flowing at Craft Labs in San Francisco. Embellish your wardrobe or your home with unique custom crafts designed and made by you! All classes are held in a sunny artist’s studio space located in the Mission/Potrero Hill district, and taught by Susan Peterson, an artist and arts educator with more than 20 years of experience. Channel your inner craftiness with cool gadgets, jewelry, handmade books, paper, candleholders, wrist cuffs and cards. Feel good about yourself as yo …

Let's hang out when attending SF operas or some HD operas in movie theaters. It'd be fun to build up some friends at Opera House. I go to La Travia 9 times in 2009 (I like only a few operas. If I like them, I try to go all of the performances). Maybe some of us like to humm along some songs to just to have fun.  Check my Facebook link to have the most update event photos.

Shanon Dean and Rebecca Miller are the original duo behind the 30 Something Dames. We’re just a couple of young crafty, thrifty and adventurous ladies.  Shanon puts “Suzy Homemaker” to shame and Rebecca is often referred to as “Becky Crocker”. Shanon has also started an Urban Homestead with her husband and they have 20 laying chickens, rabbits, and goats, muscovy ducks, and quail. There are 34 fruit trees, veggie gardens galore and composting bins going up around the 1/3 acre. We’re crazy abou …

The purpose of the group is to spread knowledge of homesteading and backyard/urban gardening. The goal is to have meetings about twice a month. Here is list of things we would want to try to do, but not all at once: Workshops Soap making Candle making Making Lye from ashes Worm bins Container gardening Making beer/wine Other fermented drinks Sewing Leather working Food storage Canning Topics Garden Pests Composting Permaculture Survivalism Peak Oil Book club Animals (chickens, …

Founded in 2011, our group now has over 150 members, and this is SOME of what they do: making collaborative sculpture, making music, crafting, making video and film, making art in the environment, dancing, contact improvisation dancing, creating dances, being a bodyworker, creating collages, creating 3D illustration, writing plays, writing poetry, writing screenplays, cooking, making ceramics, , knitting , painting, drawing, tinkering, being silly, playing, making music, making rhythm, drumming, …

We gather in each other's homes to foster life-long friendships, while teaching each other how to make treasures from trash. Always $5 ~ ALL AGES WELCOME! ~ YELP REVIEWS:  http://www.yelp.com/biz/diamonds-in-the-rough-a-creative-cooperative-meetup-daly-city Past projects:   paper beads, records to bowls, earrings/bracelets/pins, clocks from objects, succulent living wreaths, coil baskets, shaggy rag rugs, no sew table runners, make a lamp, rain chains, starburst mirrors, garden candle lanterns, …

What in olden times was a sewing circle has turned into a vibrant online community--BurdaStyle, SewWeekly, blogs... But recently I've noticed local sewists reaching out to each other to connect in more personal ways. Let's start our own sewing circle, have a swap meet, go to the Alameda flea market, share inspiration and techniques, or oogle fabrics at Britex! This is a San Francisco Bay Area meetup for all people looking to meet up with other sewers. Learn more about who we are and what we'd li …

Do you like to sew or craft?  Would you like to spend some time with others once in a while and learn new techniques?  Would you like an avenue to meet other crafters where you don't have to be the one coming up with all the ideas all the time?  Maybe you'd like to share some of your talent and ideas with the rest of our group.  Either way, we hope you come in and stay a while.  Please attend our functions and support our group, and in exchange, we will support you!

Ladies in Stitches is designed to bring together fun and diverse individuals who are passionate about quilting and enjoy spending time with like-minded people. Members of this group are encouraged and welcomed to be as interactive with the Meetups as possible. We hope to offer Meetups at multiple locations that will be conducive to each member, so that we can reach all of Northern California. If you live outside of the Roseville area, please think about becoming a co-organizer to represent your …

Project Society is empowering makers, DIYers, crafters, artisans, tinkerers, etc... to come together and create and build crafting businesses. We are organizing meetups for individuals to demonstrate or instruct on how they craft, and people will be able to purchase the materials before or after to make that item. Or, crafters and makers can just come and mingle and make their own items. Host: Want to invite some friends or learn about something in particular? You can let us know, we'll find a …

We are a group of gals (and guys, if there are any so inclined) who meet once a month in Dogpatch to do a fun craft and enjoy a matching "themed" cocktail. We may be working with paper, paints, stamps, sewing, bedazzling, making small gifts or ornaments. During or after our craft-making we can enjoy a hand-crafted cocktail! Whatever our craft, the cocktail will match!

Goddess Time is a group for fun, social justice-minded women to laugh, play, and develop friendships.  In the words of Amy Poehler, "Uteruses before Duderuses. Ovaries before Brovaries." ;) Goddess Time is about enjoying and nurturing women and everything feminine.  This group is also meant to encourage sensitive discussion of social and cultural issues, especially: white-privilege, race, class, gender and sexuality.  Anyone who identifies as a woman is welcome. Our fabulous events will include …

The Swap-O-Rama-Rama is a world-wide event that helps a community explore creativity and re-use through a clothing swap and series of DIY craft and sewing workshops. Erin Scholl and Jennifer Alexander are the local coordinators of this amazing and inspirational event and every year Swap-O-Rama-Rama gathers for the ultimate celebration of creativity at Maker Faire in San Mateo in May. This group is a way to keep it going year round, bringing people who are interested in sharing and learning ideas …

Just looking for a group of friendly people to get together twice a month for a few hours and do all things sewing related. If you are a beginner and looking to learn; if you are somewhat experienced but looking for a more social environment to work in; if you are an experienced sewer and love to share your passion and knowledge.. This is the group for you. It doesnt matter the area of fabric crafts you are interested in. Home decor, quilting, fashion, costume... we are here to help inspire each …

SHARED is a space for creative people to work and collaborate together. It is based in the belief that together we can create greater things than we could individually or in isolation. SHARED has meetings, classes, and events for the creative. We define "creative" as anyone who builds, designs, or invents something (not limited to tangible things). In addition SHARED has office space, work space, and a shared work shop with tools and equipment for its members. Join us and make stuff.

Join fellow Islanders to make UPCYCLE COUTURE! Develop your signature style. Rethink how you clothe yourself and your family. Have creative, collaborative, skill-building fun. No sewing experience? No worries. WE HAVE THREE COACHES with impressive skills and creativity who will guide and teach us. Let's create an upcycling fashion mob right here on the Island! Join us for a series ($90 for six sessions) or individual evenings ($20) and get ready to have fun! 7-9pm, Monday evenings. Doors open at …

This group is for mid-life women who are new to the area or have found ourselves, through retirement or other life events, looking for more friends and a stronger sense of community. We're active women aged 50s-60s (-ish), living in or near the Oakland/Berkeley/El Cerrito corridor, who want to enjoy life and expand our social horizons with other wonderful women in the area. Activities will be determined by the group but may include: Bay area cultural events, hiking and walking in local parks, ca …

This is a group for anyone interested in needlework: crewel, needlepoint, crossstitch etc. All skill levels, adult ages welcome. Let's get together once a month to get projects started and/or finished. Help each other out with design, stitches and just plain fun.

Figamarole is devoted solely to providing women with a inspiriational & relaxing setting to gather, socialize, learn, teach, & create. Classes and Events are held for Stitch n' Bitch, Sewing, Cooking, Jewelry Making, Paper Crafts, Gardening, etc. Studio space is available by table or room or downstairs classroom space for those looking for a place to get away with a group or individual use. Monthly calendars are posted on website www.figamarole showing upcoming happenings, history, and general i …

Come on out and spend a fun, relaxed evening with other gay men who knit, crochet, and do various needlcrafts. There are lots of groups for women, here's our chance to bring out projects and swap tips, stitches and stash over a nosh and a beverage together, just us guys....