It was a very good month. Dig in. Every entry is a classic.
I’m sorry I’ve been a bit slack on sharing all my handmade christmas stories with you all. So just to drag it out even more, I’m going to do it in pieces.
This pillow was a present for Tara made by my partner’s stepmum, otherwise known as Pen Pen. It’s beautifully stitched and it must have [...]
Tena koutou nga Tangata e tautoko ana te kaupapa Tino Rangatiratanga me te Mana Motuhake o Aotearoa
To show our solidarity for the kaupapa of Tino Rangatiratanga we will be assembling outside the NZ settler consulate this Waitangi Day where we will proudly display our Tino Rangatiratanga (Maori Sovereignty) flag.
* The Treaty of Waitangi still [...]
Lately the saying ‘one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter’ has been coming to mind a fair bit. Ignoring the gender stupidity of that statement, I finally got motivated to make something in that vein. Actually I made this a little while ago but haven’t gotten around to posting this until now.
So [...]
Yeah sorry about that folks.
See I give the impression that I know heaps about computers and shit. But really I’m just pretending. Anything flash I do is usually done by some friendly boy. Although I did make the gallery all by myself!
Thanks HEAPS to the friendly boy who fixed my site (again).
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OK here’s a pattern for you die-hard bogans. It’s a wee bit of work but if you start with black fabric it would dramatically reduce the amount of work to do and it will look very, very cool.
This came from obsolete on the craftster forums and I think it is so way cool. It [...]
OK so the wee one is seriously on the move now. She can get from one end of the house to the other in about 30 seconds. Whew! So we’ve been sorting our barricades to keep her to one area of the house (and prepare her for anti-summit demos). Luckily for us we have the [...]
One year I will make it to Waiheke for the annual State of the Planet speech. In the meantime, at least I get to read it.
“We welcome all fellow travellers. But to paraphrase Dylan,
“The old order is agein’ – if you can’t give us a hand with the new one, get out of the way.” [...]
This is the one you’ve all been waiting for! Yip, it’s the next cross stitch kit!
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car·tel
–noun
1. an international syndicate, combine, or trust formed esp. to regulate prices and output in some field of business.
2. a coalition of political or special-interest groups having a common cause, as to encourage the passage of a certain law.
3. a written agreement between belligerents, esp. for the exchange of prisoners.
4. a written challenge to a duel.
5. [...]
And I’m not talking about me, but my mama!
Check out this cool recycled cork board noticeboard my mum made. It was made out of all the wine corks she collected. She assures me it was a very hard job
It was given as a gift to my uncle and aunty and this [...]
A while back I stumbled across a little idea as to what to do with all my little scraps of embroidery aida fabric . I’ve been embroidering little words and sticking them onto badge backs. I thought it was a mildly interesting idea and worth doing some market research on. So I [...]
And not just for all the usual reasons like the immorality of the concept, and the fact that it’s about a bunch of rich guys sending in poor guys to be fodder over their resource wars. But lately war seems to be REALLY messing up the soldiers. Sure there was a lot of depression after [...]
This one was written by Ulla-Maaria who has her own site here. I quite like it. It touches on a lot of the things I’ve been talking to people about in relation to craft ideology activism.
Last night I was guest host on the Renegade Economist radio show on 3CR Community Radio here in Melbourne [...]
Yeah it’s like rent-a-mob but cooler. The Net Granny website is perfect for those of you a) incapable of knitting and b) without a Granny. You simply pick your Granny, pick your pattern and they knit it for you!
I’d been planning a similar idea with the women in my local sewing group but [...]
Mate it went off!
Where were ya?
It even got immortalised in a comic!
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A cross stitch I made of a quote from Bitterstitch.com. I’m considering if I should add something more, like a border or something, but I’m not sure. I’m pretty restless at the moment, so we’ll see if I’ll ever do it or just move on to some of the projects I have in mind…
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Now this is a brilliant idea, especially for those of us who live in drought ravaged climes, cause this one won’t get washed away in the rain very often. Check out Mud Stencils. Basically the same as normal stencils but you use mud instead of spraypaint.
How cool is that?
It’s better for the planet, has a [...]
When we moved into our lovely wee house our garden was a deserted wasteland nightmare. We’ve since done heaps to our garden and it is now producing plenty of yummy treats for us. But there was one tree that was already here which has produced a bumper surprise crop for us. And [...]
Happy new year everyone! I hope you all had a lovely lovely night. We spent the evening chillin out on the beach with friends, drinking champagne, playing with sparklers, having quick dips and watching revellers go by. Brilliantly lovely fun.
So now the new year is upon me, I have a bit of [...]
"I don't regard myself as an artist. I am a craftsman. Fuck art." - Clifford Harper
