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 [...]
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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 cuff [...]
For the past year I’ve been looking for full-time work. It’s what people don’t like to admit, talk about, or even think about it because it stamps a giant “LOSER” on your forehead, whether you put it there, or society puts it there or, most regrettably, both. As I dove into this search, I stopped [...]
The war rug above is part of a project I’m working on right now. I’ve talked about them before, but what I haven’t mentioned is how reluctant people have been to actually tell me anything about them. How is it we can be at war with a country and not even attempt to better understand [...]