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, [...]

[This post was originally posted over at Mommy Do That.] Did you know that there are 100 million women missing in this world? When I came across this statistic, I couldn’t believe it. The facts tell a different story. If you take the natural distribution of male/female, there are 100 million women missing from our [...]

For anyone who is making their holiday crafts by hand, this may ring a bell*…. (by Franklin Habit) If the above doesn’t scare you off, I have a nice and easy pattern for fingerless gloves in Craft Hope. As someone who has given these as gifts, I can tell you that they have always been [...]

This Monday, when I mentioned I was having a not-so-awesome day, The Man Who Knit sent me a link to their new video. I think this very act should happen every time I have a bad day… A wonderful and lovely video made by wonderful and lovely people should show up in front of me. [...]

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 [...]