It was a very good month. Dig in. Every entry is a classic.
So I hope you’ve all seen the new look Greens website. I think it looks really good and it will be fantastic for election year for people coming to the site for the first time. It’s really easy to find what you’re looking for. Well done to the team that sorted that [...]
Sorry I forgot to mention to you all that I’ve gone on this extreme road trip so I won’t be posting much on here. We left almost a week ago now and we’ve been driving from Melbourne to Uluru (2300km egad!). I’ve even been driving and those of you who know me will [...]
If you’re looking for some inspirational ideas for the Free Tibet Xstitch comp, you might want to check out The Colour Orange Project.
I had to share this one. Now anyone who knows me, knows I’m not really a huge fan of the institution of marriage. I find it a lot more constructive to decide every day that I want to spend the rest of my live with my beloved (awww).
So I was pretty amused by [...]
For all of you zinesters, independent writers and other groovy scribblers, check out Melbourne Street Press! Aside from a fabulous lineup of workshops at the City Gallery, there’s tons of other benefits of getting involved.
An opportunity for all of those interested in any aspect of Melbourne’s buzzing Street Press from zines to comics, from [...]
Check out these AMAZING cross stitches from Christa at Crafty Like A Fox. If I was rich I know where I’d be spending my dollars!
The Storque at Etsy is having a wee series called Earth Tones and it is focussed on the environmental issues faced by the crafting community and how the crafting community responds to these issues.
It’s a collaboration between the Eco-Etsy and Trashion Street Teams.
The articles, which so far cover why you should be green, how to [...]
The wonderful Melbourne Craft Collective the Kaotic Kraft Kuties have a new site where you can keep up to date with what they’ve got going on.
Which is absolutely fantastic news for those of us who are devastated that we missed out on space in this
The Kaotic Kraft Kuties are a Melbourne-based all-girl “stich’n’bitch” group founded [...]
This is the podcast that nearly broke me folks! It’s been a major struggle to get this one together, due to various glitches in the Matrix. It’s been one of those if it can go wrong, it will go wrong type projects! I was intending to get this online by Monday but [...]
One of my favourite friends who seems to be addicted to random acts of public craziness dressed in pink lycra has struck again for the Dare You to Dance There competition.
Basically you get someone to film you breaking out in to some random public dancing, upload it the website and then the best voted entry [...]
The awesome crew at Anti Craft have finally sold out and published their book. Well, apparently they published it last year but I only just heard about it.
“You are about to embark on a wondrous journey, full of flowers, and light, and—wait, wrong book. This book is about the darker side of craft….If you [...]
In january i finished a cross stitch based on a qoute I found at bitterstitch.com, but never felt completely happy with it. Now I’ve finished a new version of the same quote, and I like it so much better! I love the colour combination and this version feels much more balanced than the first one.
The [...]
I loved Kakariki’s post about the knitted poo a while ago, and immediately knew that it would be perfect for one of my friends. She has this amazing bizarre sense of humor and is one of very, very few I know who would use the phrase “my prettiest vomit” as if it’s a perfectly everyday [...]
Hope you’ve all been as inspired as I am with all the Free Tibet action going on around the world. I was stoked to read today that Wangari Maathai, a Green Party woman who was the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize has pulled out of the rally on humanitarian grounds.
Not all [...]
I’m never one to be ashamed of a bit of geek pride and I am screaming from the rooftops how much I love this dude.
MC Storm Troopa hails from the mighty crafty town of Hamiltron (naturally) and is absolutely brilliant, or should I say, fully sick mate!
I never would have thought that I’d find myself [...]
Thanks to the lovely Ms Cate there was a bit of a Craft Cartel appearance at Swinburn Prahran campus today. They were having a youth week celebration with an amazing souvlaki cook up, some hilarious sexual health awareness street theatre, some healthy food promotion, and our wee stalls.
I had a great time meeting students [...]
Some of you may have missed the fact that there’s a Radical Cross Stitch Posse group on Facebook (join it!) and we’ve been seeing some pretty cool pictures on there recently. But this one just leapt out and went ‘how cool am I!!!!!!’ so I had to share it with you all.
I asked the [...]
The always delightful Ms Cate from Polka Dot Rabbit has HAD IT! with the consumerist hoo-ha that comes with the craft world. And has declared a bold new initiative for us all to join in. And I for one, am certainly aboard.
For those of you that saw my feminist bookmark and thought ‘goodness, I wish I could have one like that!’, you’re in luck!
I have just put the pattern up on etsy for sale as a pdf file. I’ll be putting it together as a kit soon too.
This bookmark has been especially designed for those [...]
Check out this amazing short vid featuring the infamous Screaming Lulu
An offbeat look at the pressures and expectations for women growing old in our society. Rather than accepting that our faces show character from the lives we have lived and should therefore be celebrated, there is developing need to stretch and paralyze our faces [...]
"I don't regard myself as an artist. I am a craftsman. Fuck art." - Clifford Harper
