It was a very good month. Dig in. Every entry is a classic.
Check out this website for the Counterfeit Crochet Project. Stephanie is coordinating a bunch of crochet kids (not me though I still haven’t gotten around to learning this fine skill) to make free form crochet counterfeit copies of designer handbags.
Here’s a Chanel number:
For [...]
Howdy everyone, I’ve been a busy bee with elections, a visiting parent and various other excuses. And I’ve been helping organise this market! And it’s gonna be ACE!
For crafty types who don’t dig rose-scented doilies.
Celebrating all that is irreverent, kitchy, delightfully offensive & made lovingly by hand.
Come & indulge in some free wholesome [...]
My latest finished work, one that I’ve been wanting to make for a while: a quotation of the Finland-Swedish poet Edith Södergran. It says “It does not behoove me to make myself smaller than I am.”
(Cross stitch and back stitch, size about 20 x 14 cm.)
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And I mean the cross stitch revolution of course. I don’t know what it is about this week but I seem to have stumbled on some cool stuff, and it’s still only Tuesday!
Firstly, this great blog Agoraphobia has this AMAZING cross stitch. Definitely gets a RCS medal of honour!
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Goodness time flies when you’re having fun. I moved into this site, thus becoming part of the goonanism mob in August. Today we hit 10,000 unique visitors! Hoorar!
This had quite a lot to do with the appearance of the super easy baby hat tutorial on the Sew, Mama, Sew! Handmade Holidays feature (hi everyone from [...]
It’s funny, in Aotearoa, there is a whole lot of people who don’t get how MMP works. It seems to be too complicated to work out. But here, I can’t even work it all out and I’m ’smart’. And to make things more fun, voting is compulsory! What kind of brilliant [...]
Created by some of my favourite people. Deadly work crew!
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This is allegedly the work of TV reporter Ali Akram. The singing is atrocious.
But goodness this is funny.
EDIT
I’ve removed this clip because this has caused great offence to many people in particular the people of Tuhoe. See Ana’s comment below and this story over at Te Kaea to understand why. While I [...]
I have to draw your attention to this incredible piece of art that has been produced by Dunedin artist Fiona Clements.
This piece was created to raise people’s awareness of the issues of organics, GE, sustainability and other connected issues. People who support the text written on the skirt can sign the skirt to demonstrate [...]
I actually finished this a little while ago but it’s taken me ages to get my a into g. I’m still not happy with the photos but I really want to get this out there now all the crew are out of lock up. Hopefully someone near them will bring it to their [...]
I LOVE the local holiday bazaar at the Senior Center. They have no idea of what a craft goldmine they’re sitting on, and I wish someone would do a book about this kind of stuff. I always make a beeline for the booth at the back, where they have these little cross stitch [...]
Yesterday we braved the heat (ironically) and went to the Melbourne Walk Against Warming. The coppers reckoned there was about 40,000 people and the organisers reckoned 50,000 so somewhere in between probably.
It took me a while to get in to it cause I felt kinda weird being in such a mainstream thing. And [...]
Sometimes I get kind of over all the sticky super sweet cute craft stuff out there. There’s bazillions of craft websites and they all seem to be trying to out-sweet each other. So I don’t really see the need for me to add to it all.
But I made this pattern and I want [...]
If you owned all the land and I owned all the money, how much money would you charge me to live on your land?
I was absolutely astonished to see the NZ Reserve Bank Chairman Arthur Grimes floating the idea of a 1% land tax and a cut of tax rates to 0-20%. This is [...]
Here’s a fun one. I made a wee birthday present for a very very dear friend of ours who happens to work for a certain ornathalogical (is that how you spell it?) type organisation.
I sewed the edges up a wee bit wonky, but it adds to the handmade feel of it (that’s my justification).
I [...]
We won’t ask again.
props.
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Five burning social issues, each of which is a category in our competition.
50×70 is the size of the posters we ask the creatives to submit for the benefit of others.
Many are the designers and charities creating awareness of social problems in tomorrow communicators.
One is the exhibition that will present a selection of the best posters [...]
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"I don't regard myself as an artist. I am a craftsman. Fuck art." - Clifford Harper
