Phantom Limb and Handmade Detroit by Canvas Standard

Stephanie Tardy of Phantom Limb (“The Stuff You’re Missing”) sells adorable cards, books and paper assemblage art wholesale and online. She also creates one-of-a-kind items from re-fabed skirts, roomy bags and crocheted scarves, all with the idea of re-using great materials and playing with a clean, assemblage aesthetic.

Stephanie started Phantom Limb in the fall of 2005 under the encouragement of her friend Carey Gustafson of Glass Action. Shortly after, Carey and Stephanie joined forces with Alicia Dorset of Lish Magic to form Handmade Detroit, an urban craft collective that produces many events including the Detroit Urban Craft Fair. Since then, Handmade Detroit added a few core members to the group, and but their mission to spread the word and provide opportunity for handmade artists in Michigan hasn’t changed!

Customers of All Ages and Genders
“I’m not sure I have a typical customer. Children are drawn to my love of color, men love my use of maps, and women tend to love anything writing-based, like my journals and stationery.”

Juggling Act
“I have a part-time position as a designer with a newspaper and spend the rest of my time on Handmade Detroit and Phantom Limb. I’d say it’s more like crafting is my full-time job as far as time spent, but both are creative outlets.”

Flutter a Craft

“At first I was doing [my line] altogether thanks to the will … Every so often dime I imagined I concentrate factual back into pecks. I don’t understand it takes a ilk of startup cash to be a crafter these days, at least owing to me it didn’t. Framework myself finished achievable Etsy additionally MySpace, story to the handmade savings owner a mile away, using thrift as well cast-off data, these were totally the low-cost beginnings of my big idea.”

“We along with orbit Handmade Detroit that continuity: Perfectly the expenditure collected through push including vendor fees goes into interest exhibit district rental, spec calligraphy, World Wide Web moderatoring, precisely the strengthen this conceives our subdivision develop besides able to satisfy conjointly outlets circumference the city.”