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Media appearances

The April 27 issue of Star Tribune ran a feature article on the Craftstravaganza.

Click here to see our "Tip of the Day" writeup in the Pioneer Press.

We also made the A-List in City Pages' "Best of the Twin Cities" issue.

Click to view a clip from our April 24 appearance on Fox 9 News .

We're in Minnesota Monthly's list of 75 things that make our state great!

2006 coverage

WCCO reporter Maya Nishikawa came to the Fairgrounds on the morning of the first SPC to interview the organizers and a couple of vendors. Click here to see a video of the first segment.

The 2006 SPC was listed as a Hot Ticket by the Pioneer Press and the Pulse. Here's what the Pulse had to say:

"It's a month or so yet before the Minnesota State Fair, with its attendant crop of exhibitions, so it will be a little while before we can see portraits of Augie Garcia or Hubert Humphrey made out of seeds. Thank goodness for St. Paul's Craftstravaganza, which brings all sorts of oddball craft projects to the fairgrounds in July. Co-sponsored by Bust Magazine, which sometimes reads like a group of punk rockers had gotten hold of a Victorian quilting book, this festival of uncommon hobbies features altered clothing, felted wool dolls and lollipop-colored wooden box purses. Also on hand will be music by Chokecherry (chokecherry wine is delicious, by the way, and brewing it is a typical Northern Minnesota hobby), the Mill City Mongrels and the Roe Family Singers. And, in the best punk DIY tradition, the fair will offer workshops on the art of knitting, Ukrainian eggmaking, bookmaking, and spinning, so, by the end of the day, you're likely to be making your own rogue arts and crafts." MAX SPARBER