Most people understand the power and strength of a flag. When it comes to a symbol, nothing can be more powerful. Flags can inspire love, rage, war, hate, pride, revolution and knowledge. Flags are designed at the most simple level, to communicate a message or an idea with a quick glance.
Flags are [...]
Ok kids, it’s time to start getting excited!
The infinitely quotable (as I recently heard her described) Betsy Greer from craftivism.com, who is also a contributor to both issues of hoopla has written a book!
How cool is that cover!
It’s not out yet, but will be in November and you can preorder it on Amazon. I [...]
Julie at The Hand Mirror shared this awesome poster, which I think I’ve seen before, but always deserves a showing
Some of you will remember the pattern I designed for the venus symbol aka the feminist symbol. At the time I designed it I didn’t really have any plans to actually stitch it, it just kind of came to me so I put it together. I guess I knew that the right purpose [...]
This is the project that has been sitting on my to-do list the longest this year, and it’s finally done!
Woah so I just did a post about crafty actions and then immediately found two more projects. These ones are more DiY so have a go. They both came from the innaugural Down Under Feminist Carnival at Hoyden About Town - which has some great stuff on it, check it out.
These projects are [...]
Film maker Jim Finn (no relation to the Te Awamutu boys I’m guessing) has a diverse portfolio of talents and has also stitched these pillows featuring Communist Heroes. And the stitching is gorgeous.
I was most interested in the process he went through to create them:
I chose [...]
It’s weird there was a bit of a lull in craft actions going on around the world and now I’ve heard about three at once. Although only two of them just happened.
We got a nice mention from microrevolt (hi back!) and in the post was the wonderful knitwit crew, who do such ace stuff [...]
On the 28th of January 2008 Bruce William Emery was remanded in custody after appearing in a south Auckland court charged with the murder of a teenage boy. The 50 year old business men allegedly stabbed 15-year-old Pihema Clifford because he caught him about to tag his fence.
You’d expect an outpouring of indignant [...]
So, I’m gonna try and write an intro post for myself… I’m Johanna, I live in Stockholm, Sweden but will probably move down to northern Mozambique sometime in October this year. I got hooked on needles (no, not that kind) when I realized how easy cross stitching really is and above all, how creative you [...]
This week on the Craft Cartel podcast we go on a crafty travelling adventure to Uluru and check out some of the amazing Indigenous Craft collectives:
I am pleased to announce the newest addition to the Radical Cross Stitch family.
Coming all the way to us from Sweden, or maybe somewhere in Africa… everyone say a big hi to Johanna!
We all know and love Johanna from the mighty Cross Yr Stitches blog. The Ninja and I decided that since one [...]
If you looked at the front page of etsy you’d probably think it was all pretty cute and fashionable. Trendy no less.
But if you look hard enough there is some seriously cool stuff on there. Here’s some things I’d buy if I had a million dollars.
Firstly (and I can’t believe I’m saying this..) [...]
I promised a finished cross stitch and now I’m finally delivering! I’ve been slowly working on this one for a couple of months now and I’m so happy to see it finished!
It’s is an antique (c. 1860’s) inspired floral border surrounding the text ‘Don’t Bleed on the Carpet’. I’ve subtitled it ‘if you’re [...]
Johanna at Cross Yr Stitches (our 2nd favourite cross stitch blog!) has just finished this super cool xstitch
Check out these groovy dolls being stitched by the clever Ms. Amy.
Check out this cool action from the Revolutionary Craft Womyn of Addington in solidarity of the ANZAC Ploughshares who gained access and casued serious damage to the Waihopai Spy Base in New Zealand. Waihopai is a key component of the global US spy system known as Echelon.
Here’s the report from Aotearoa Indymedia:
We all had [...]
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.
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!
"I don't regard myself as an artist. I am a craftsman. Fuck art." - Clifford Harper
