Swap O Rama Rama Success

The Sunday Swap was an overwhelming success! Over 400 people brought clothes to be silk screened, ripped apart and resewn and felted!

We had 13 sewing machines going non stop and 4 silk screen stations. It was madness, in a good way. Thanks to all the general volunteers and volunteer designers for their continued support and hard work.

Here are a few links to some rocking Flickr pictures (please join our group) and my Facebook page. Stay tuned for next years Swap!

Felt Club drew about 4500 people and shopping the booths was an experience. If you could not find it there, it didn't exist!

Swap list of Designers is growing!

Just 10 short days to Swap O Rama Rama at the Shrine Expo Hall. This event is going to be bigger and better than ever. FreshPressed, a new and innovative design company will be on hand showcasing their process of creating screenprinting wearables.

Yelp will be there with their own booth where you can embellish one of their tote bags and take it home!

Several designers come to us from the school system and we are lucky to have them - Santa Monica College, FIDM, Pasadena school system and more. Hollywood will be represented and a bevy of independent designers as well.


Stations will include mittens, scraves, holiday stockings, plushies and open sewing. Save your clothes and come on down on Sunday, November 16 from 11am to 5pm at the Shrine Expo Center, 700 W 32nd St, LA 90007.



For a taste of Swap, check out this video from our June event.

Swap-O-Rama-Rama in LA Nov. 16

Hip Line Media is once again sponsoring the uber hip, utterly fun and eco friendly Swap O Rama Rama in Los Angeles on Sunday, November 16, 2008 at the Shrine Expo Center from 11am to 5pm.

This is a giant clothing swap staffed with volunteer designers armed with sewing machines. Bring a bag of clothes and $5 (or $10 without clothes) and get your creative juices flowing. You can even learn to sew your own.



There are more designers participating this year than ever! We'll have stations to make Holiday Stockings, Mittens, Plushies and more.

As a bonus, this year Swap will team up with Felt Club, an indie craft show, with over 150 booths of the best handmade goods around. So get set to do your Holiday shopping and creating at Holiday Swap.

New Website Up

Well, the new website is finally up and we've added video and a blog. About time! Because that's what it all takes - time. As a freelance Line Producer in the television world, my time often gets sucked up with work. Well I've decided to focus more on Hip Line Media and see where we can go.

We have so many ideas and exciting video in the pipeline!

• "How to" video on the fundamentals of sewing and quilting.
  
• Interviews and inspiration from Indie designers.
  
• Insight on the latest notions and trends.
• Fitting tips based on the Sew/Fit Method.
  
• And more about Swap O Rama Rama (which is coming back to LA in November!)

We'll take you along on our own project journey. Lately, we've found ourselves caught up in the book The New Crewel by Katherine Shaughnessy which is packed with pictures and projects related to all things crewel. We even made a Handbag from our DVD and embellished it with one of her designs. It's a Crewel world! Check out the new website, books, patterns, and more at Hip Line Media.