craft + activism = craftivism.

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

One of the coolest things about putting new content online is that people start to send you notices and info about new projects coming up! Yay! Yes, sometimes people even send me promo items. That being said, there are a few amount of promo items I get that I don’t like. And at times when [...]

One of the coolest things about writing about craftivism has to be all the amazing events/projects/people I get introduced to! Faythe Levine sent me an email about an amazing project that her friend Tanya Aguiniga is currently doing. Tanya is trying raise $7,000 for this project, and could use your donation if you have some [...]