How significant are the topics of cool hunting and trend spotting in the world of craftastrophic blogging?
Hunting for stuff to make fun of is fairly minimal as readers send in bad crafts and links to bad crafts all the time. Trend spotting with crafting is more about the materials used than anything else. For a while it was wet felting (which is hideous) and lately we’ve been getting a lot of female genitalia inspired crafts – polymer clay has been really popular. 3. How do you define a trend? Something that goes viral on Twitter or Facebook usually trends well. 4. How do you define cool? Or, perhaps for your team, the more appropriate question is how do you define ‘not cool’? Most of the stuff we feature? NOT COOL. But there have been a few items that, even though they’re a little out in left field have received many comments from people who would—and have—purchased from the shop owners. 5. Do you need a culture of innovation to create something that is cool? I don’t think so, no. Cool can come from many facets of a homemade item no matter the current trends. The funny and craftastrophic-
