Sewing lounge launch party

Photo credit: Piece Together

Summer has arrived early in Brisbane, bringing with it 30+ temperatures and the silly season in full swing. I think they call it the silly season because it's ridiculously silly how many great parties/launches/openings/events are on each night, making it impossible to get to them all especially post a smidge of bubbly. Tonight we'll be attempting to party hop from the Frock Paper Scissors launch to the launch of Brisbane's newest sewing lounge Piece Together.

You wouldn't think it possible that more wonderful businesses could pop up in the Woolloongabba Antique Precinct, but they have! Piece Together opened its doors a few months ago now, and just downstairs of their lofty studio space is new coffee nook Five Sugars. Champagne, cupcakes and live music will start flowing from Five Sugars from 5.30pm, with Piece Together's launch starting at 7pm upstairs. There's also a craft and vintage mini-market for your xmas-present-organising pleasure or just as a little treat for yourself.

Now you've got your schedule sorted for this evening, the only thing left to settle is what to wear! I think Janome will be coming out to play a tad this season - too many events and not enough handmade dresses...

The morning after…

Photo credit: Linsey Rendell

Morning! (Well, actually it’s afternoon now…) Thank you to all the lovely folk who came along to support the launch of our little mag last night. It was a super splendid affair! We'd like to say thank you to Brew for hosting our little event, Inland Sea for playing some swell tunes, Holly Riding, Jaclyn Bates and Clare Barrett for exhibiting some amazing art, and everyone who helped with setting up and making the night a success. We had a great (yet slightly balmy) evening.

If you missed out on grabbing your very own copy of Seam Magazine’s first issue last night, don’t fret! It’ll be in independent bookstores, fashion and craft boutiques and gift-type shops all around Australia from this week. Here’s the first list of stockists to get you started:

Nook (Brisbane)
Cultiver (Ipswich)
Blackbird Corner (Newcastle)
Little Papercup (Newcastle)
Sweets Workshop (Sydney)
Follow Store (Sydney)
Smiths Alternative Bookshop (Canberra)
Little Shop Of… (Melbourne)
The Brunswick Street Bookstore (Melbourne)
Felix (Melbourne)
The Nook (Hobart)

If you’re in Brisbane, we’ll be selling the magazine at the Brisbane Finders Keepers Markets this coming weekend (Sat 5th & Sun 6th) with Alice Nightingale.

And if you’re can’t grab a copy from any of these spots, we’d be super happy to pop a copy in the snail mail for you. Actual mail received in an actual letterbox is always delightful these days. Email info {at} seammagazine {dot} com to order your copy!

Seam is launching!

Seam Magazine's The Start-Ups Issue

Huzzah! Seam is here! We thought we’d give all you super swell followers a sneak peek of our cover as thanks for being such great chums. The photography for the cover is by our editor Linsey Rendell and the illustration is by Karen Wallis (also issue one’s designer) and Lucy Dalzell.

After eight super busy months of planning, writing, photography, designing and all those sneaky business bits that go into setting up a magazine, we’re finally launching our first issue this weekend! The delightful folk over at Brew are hosting our afternoon-to-evening celebratory soiree, so there’ll be plenty of tea, coffee, cocktails and other intriguing beverages on tap. There’ll also be an array of homebaked goods that would impress the slippers off your nanna.

Three young Brisbane artists – Clare Barrett, Jaclyn Bates and Holly Riding – have put together nine artworks for your eyeballing pleasure, recreating images from issue one in their own styles. And Brisbane band Inland Sea’s latest EP Fortune will be available for purchase before it’s even hit record store shelves!

We’re also holding a raffle with first prize an iPad2! And there's also a bunch of handmade goodies for ladies and lads to be won – tickets are 3 for $5.

And of course you’ll all have first dibs on Seam’s The Start-Ups Issue, retailing for $15. Wizzer!

Come along and support our little creative team at Seam's launch. Brew has a capacity limit of 120, so make sure you rock up early to nab a sofa or a stool amongst this highly coveted creative event. À bientôt!

Issue one is coming...

The countdown is on! There are only 27 days until issue one of Seam Magazine launches, and we are one very excited Seam Team bunch! We’re a little stresshead about getting it all done, but we won’t bore you with the details… we’ll just sip a few cups of green tea and it’ll all be okay again in no time. Keep your peepers open for our launch invite on facebook – we’ll be popping it up in the next few days. And if you want to stay up to date with all the last minute launch details make sure you sign up to our e-letter. We’ll be sending our first one out tomorrow! Hope you all have cheery Mondays.