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This project reached the deadline without achieving its funding goal on January 10, 2010.

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3 Backers • Limited Reward (47 of 50 remaining)

Pledge $25 or more and receive an Absolute Beginners mix cd, curated with artwork designed by our founding members Alex Parkin, Michael DiPietro and Rebecca Lesesne.

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For a donation of $25 you can opt to try our Absolute Beginners tea instead, custom blended by designer Alex Parkin. We'll send you 6 cups worth.

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For $50 we'll schedule a two hour, one-on-one sewing workshop with you, right in our shop.

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OR for $50 you can receive an Absolute Beginners T-shirt (you tell us your size, we surprise you with the design on a repurposed shirt) and an Absolute Beginners Friend Card, good for 10% off any purchases at our store for 1 year.

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For $100 or more, you get a T-shirt from the store, the Absolute Beginners mix cd, AND the Absolute Beginners tea blend. These are going fast!

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For a pledge of $250 or more, send us an old item of clothing and we'll revive it into a custom made piece just for you, based on what you'd like it to be. You'll ALSO receive an Absolute Beginners Super Friend Card, good for 10% off any purchases and free admission to all workshops and events for 1 year. Yay!

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Michael DiPietro Brooklyn, NY-based artist and performer. His craft expertise runs the gamut from sewing and patternmaking, soft sculpture, needlepoint, screenprinting and dyeing, to woodworking, welding, and carpentry. He dislikes the term 'dilletante' and prefers 'interdisciplinary' - and especially loves projects that combine disciplines to create new hybrids of making and experience.

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