craft + activism = craftivism.

First off, I wanted to share this sweet article and photo that I came across recently! And while they may not be making crafts with a Kevin Bacon motif, they are warming thousands of strangers in need with their mighty knitting power! So here’s a big shout out to the Westport Women’s Club of Westport, [...]

People often ask me what craftivism is. Generally I talk about how it’s about using what you make with your hands as your mouthpiece. It’s about speaking a different way, a non-vocal, raw, visceral way that pulls no punches. I never really learned how to embrace my anger verbally, but I sure as hell can [...]

For the past few months, I’ve been volunteering some of my time to a wonderful organization called Emerge Global. This charity was started in 2005 after the founder, Alia Whitney-Johnson, went to Sri Lanka to volunteer after the tsunami. While you can read more about how Emerge started here and what they do here, ultimately [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]