Anyone who’s worked with young people from disadvantaged backgrounds knows how powerful art can be.
So I could make these
And they’re super practical as well as being super awesome looking. If you need to knit something for a baby, I totally recommend making these.
The pattern is free and can be found at Chopped Tomatoes.
A while back I talked about the competition that Craftster.org was running with 350.org. Well, it’s voting time! You should absolutely go and check it out and vote for your favourite. I can’t chose a favourite ’cause there’s so many good entries!
One of the things that bugs me about not having very much time is that I don’t get to write very much about environmental issues. So I made a video instead!
We’re trying our best to contact each one of the 450,000 New Zealanders living in Australia (and other parts of the world) to let [...]
The Melbourne Craft Cartel are hosting an event! Yip, ’cause it’s not all about making stuff and selling stuff and buying stuff but it’s also about thinking about stuff!
This episode on the Craft Cartel podcast, Casey’s back!!! So we have a lovely chat about crafty South East Asia travels. And we go out on an EXCLUSIVE adventure with the Melbourne Revolutionary Craft Circle on their latest crafty night out.
We got some ace music from Boil Up and the super awesome and currently [...]
This has to be the motto of embroiderers and cross stitchers the world over. And in our latest Radical Cross Stitch collaboration you can make this yourself with the latest ePattern designed by TiGER c/o SEWiCiDE and available exclusively in the Radical Rags Etsy Store!
The Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand are launching their Australian campaign for the upcoming general election in Melbourne on Tuesday. You should totally come. There’s gonna be dub, yummy food and crafty door prizes. Need I say more?
A few days ago members of the Melbourne Revolutionary Craft Circle went out armed with bags of finger knitted wool, seeds, painted banners, ribbons, thermoses, cups, cameras, chocolate and some sneaky hip flasks to engage in some creative resistance against the rampant speculation which is wreaking havoc in the Melbourne suburb of Footscray.
Have you been paying attention to the recent protests in South Korea about the US Beef Trade Agreement? There’s been some crazy stuff going on there and the S. Koreans have been doing an awesome job of maintaining their bad ass reputation of amazing protest on agricultural and sufficiency issues. I don’t think [...]
I totally dig it when people are conscious about their crafting and especially the processes that go into making their crafts and the supplies they use. But it can be pretty hard finding good reliable information about good sustainable alternatives to some of the craft materials we use. There is a heap of [...]
Frog blog has this cool creative competition up to win a copy of “The Last Fish Tale - the fate of the Atlantic and our disappearing fisheries” by Mark Kurlansky.
I thought, ‘yeah I can draw a fish!’ but it turns out I’m quite crap at drawing. I am pretty good at designing cross stitch [...]
I juts wanted to say a big hi! to all the people visiting radical cross stitch from the Craft City Melbourne site. Please come in and make yourselves at home!
The lovely people at CCM just gave me a citizenship award which has made me feel very special. So a SUPER BIG thanks to [...]
For a nuclear free autonomy! (I’ve had that Combat Wombat track in my head the whole way through this project).
I’m pleased to present the first Radical Cross Stitch official collaboration!
Here’s some late night linky love. So late in fact, I didn’t finish this post until the morning!
My new favourite Etsy store is culturerevolution. Not my favourite store of all time, that’s still Jellyshoe Rebellion, who now have a Facebook Page become a Fan! Anyhoo it’s cause of this super outfit (which I’d [...]
The First Ever! Carnival of Green Crafts is on line now at Crafting a Green World. Go check it out, be inspired, and start working on your contributions for the next carnival!
As some of you know but probably most of you don’t, I live in what’s considered to be the poorest neighbourhood in Melbourne. The suburb is formerly an industrial area and is still pretty heavily dominated by industrial land. It was also formerly predominantly state housing. There was a big sell off [...]
Not quite but it would be an ace present for her.
It’s from etsy seller edelweissvintage and it’s the coolest plate I’ve ever seen. Although the gavel/mallet more reminds me of a hammer. Like the old saying ‘if I had a hammer, I’d smash patriarchy… found it!’
I just adore crazy old plates. I’ve got one [...]
"I don't regard myself as an artist. I am a craftsman. Fuck art." - Clifford Harper
