It’s been a wee while, so here comes some patterns!
One is free and one is for sale and they’re both quite different.
This first one I designed with my little girls bedroom wall in mind and it’s for all of you out there with a bit of anarchist in you.
You can purchase this pattern in the [...]
Yes everyone, 5 days until the end of the Free Tibet X Stitch Competition!
I’m furiously stitching trying to finish my design (which is obviously not eligible for prizes..) so I hope everyone else’s designs are going well!
I’ve been coming up with some plans on what to do with entries too. You’ll have to wait though..
Yay looking forward to seeing your entries!
Mate, you should’ve seen my inbox this morning. It was an insane burst of creative inspiration. Quite phenomenal.
One of the emails was from George saying ‘woah check this out’
Believe it or not this is a bike taxi. It’s the creation of the super super genius goddess Mimosa Palen of Finland and it’s [...]
Nice.
Okay, so I know I shouldn’t let jerks like Steven Wells (that Kakariki mentioned in her latest post) piss me off as much as they do, but I just couldn’t help myself.
This is the 500th post for Radical Cross Stitch!*
So to celebrate, I want to announce a new project that I need your help on.
One of the things that has become very clear to me in doing and talking to other people about radical craft is that political and radical craft is far from a new [...]
I am so super lucky. I have in my hot little hands a copy of the second issue of World Sweet World. WSW is a new craft magazine that’s fresh out of Aotearoa and it’s gorgeous.
For those of you who still haven’t got the hang of buying things through the interwebby, I’ve started putting hoopla in some shops and libraries.
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 [...]
"I don't regard myself as an artist. I am a craftsman. Fuck art." - Clifford Harper
