Posted in activism + protest., craftivism., lovely on Sep 7th, 2010 View Comments
I love getting emails from people doing wonderful craftivist projects around the world! Recently, I got an amazingly kind and exciting email from Hester at Crafting For Peace.
Along with it, the link to this beautiful and brilliantly done video!
Crafting Peace Finale from Butterfly Works on Vimeo.
Posted in misc. on Sep 2nd, 2010 View Comments
This post is a little different than the usual, but no less important. It was originally posted on the now-defunct and sorely missed, Make and Meaning, a project started by Diane Gilleland and Paul Overton with help from Alice Merlino, Pip Lincolne, Kim Werker and myself. I’m happy to report that despite lack in sales, [...]
Posted in charities + orgs., crafters + makers. on Aug 20th, 2010 View Comments
One of the projects I’m working on right now is researching craft made post-earthquake in Haiti, its political, economic, cultural elements.
It’s really interesting, and having seen this article about Levoy Exil on CNN.com from March, am wondering what I could have been told if I wasn’t stopped from speaking to him more by his one-word [...]
Posted in activism + protest., charities + orgs., crafters + makers., graffiti + public art., knitting. on Aug 16th, 2010 View Comments
If you follow what’s going on in the craft world, chances are you know about what’s been called yarn bombing, yarn storming, graffiti knitting and/or guerrilla knitting. It’s a crafty way to reclaim city space and make your town, city, village more personable and less drab. It’s so easy to get lost in a sea [...]
Posted in activism + protest., crafters + makers., feminism + human rights. on Aug 13th, 2010 View Comments
Sometimes there are no real words to accompany something so raw and good and true. And in those cases, you just introduce those words and bow out. Yes, this is one of those cases.
Knitting as Revolutionary Act via 21st Century Manifesto.
…let’s linger on the silly details, like the fly that lands on the cuff [...]