craft + activism = craftivism.

Here’s to the new year and all the dreams and adventures and love it may bring. As for 2010 parting, few things could be more fitting that this piece above. Why this piece, you ask? Because it depicts the juxtaposition of rough, activated and rugged (bull) vs warm, welcoming and beautiful (crochet) and how well [...]

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. [...]

Said the parents of Harm Van Der Dorpel while their son tried to explain his work to them. If you make anything even the slightest bit conceptual, chances are you’ve heard this exact phrase, or something eerily close. The dividing line it places between maker (smart) and viewer (less so) completely starts things off wrong [...]

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 [...]

I get awesome emails from you people! Emails that make me ooh, ahh, cheer, cry, act, just plain happy along with many more reactions. One such email I got from Huck and Stuff not too long ago about some self-proclaimed “awesomely crocheted monster masks.” And… what do you know… They not only are crocheted, but [...]