Team Member Lindsey Hardee has been hard at work creating a collection of felties that are just super adorable. Lindsey plans to add a few more friends to the group, but here are the first three: Sir Oinks-A-Lot, Pumpkin Pie, and Appletini!

More photos of these little guys are available here.

Big news — we’ve just added a clothing section to The craftershock Shop! You can find such goodies as organic cotton tees, track jackets, and even tees for your pet!

The Let’s Get Crunk party invitations from yesterday’s Loco For Gocco Tutorial are now available in The craftershock Shop!

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Today’s tutorial is one we’ve been meaning to post for a while now, and are excited to finally share with you. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Print Gocco, we’ll start with a brief intro to what we refer to as The Little Machine That Could.

Print Gocco is a small, inexpensive, and easy to use screen printing tool that originated in Japan. Gocco uses flash bulbs similar to those found in old cameras to thermally imprint an original image onto a master screen. Prints are made by pressing the ink-applied master screen against a sheet of paper placed on a sponge pad. While Riso (the company to thank for Print Gocco) “officially” ceased production of the Gocco in 2005, you can still buy them online through a few different suppliers. We buy our Gocco goods from Northwood Studios.

The first step is to create your design. For simplicity’s sake, we’re going with a one color design for this tutorial. There are many ways to create your design — rubber stamps, drawing by hand, designing on a computer, etc. One thing to keep in mind when designing: unless your design is printed using a laser printer, you MUST use a photocopy of your original design. The reason for this is in the thermal imaging process Gocco uses to create the screen from your design. The flash bulbs reflect heat from the black carbon-based image on the original to “burn” the image into the master screen. Carbon is not present in all kinds of ink, therefore you must use a photocopy (which is carbon-based).

Once you have the photocopied original, you’re ready to Gocco! Let’s get started!

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Meet Nicholas. He is the first in a series of tiny felt friends hand sewn by craftershock founder Lindsey Hardee designed to resemble her friends and family. Made of felt, ribbon, and cotton fabric, Nicholas sits up at 4.5″ tall.