craft + activism = craftivism.

Okay, just one poem. A poem that was mentioned an another project, The Creative Life, which I started with Kim Werker, to explore, well, the creative life. It came via a recommended link* posted in a comment by Carol Browne. Carol’s comment was in response to my post about how the creative life, to me, [...]

Knitter and textile artist Witt Pratt died on May 20 in Virginia. You can read his obituary

This past week I read Twyla Tharp’s The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use it For Life. It was one of those books that I came across on a site or a blog or in a conversation and scribbled it down as something to read at some point. I can’t believe it took me so [...]

Ok, so it’s not really morning. Although it is morning, technically, being 12.48AM. Even though I’m about to go to sleep, I feel like the first week of January is kind of like an entire week of waking up. I’ve spent the whole week feeling kind of like my friend Max here. A few things [...]

I first started really thinking about knitting and its relation to community and theory when I was in graduate school at Goldsmiths College and therefore involved with the Centre for Community and Urban Research, headed by Michael Keith. During that year I fell in love with ethnography and Walter Benjamin and felt literally as though [...]