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’ve been gently hassling Zoe, who you may remember from the last episode of the Craft Cartel Podcast to send me some pictures of her cross stitch so I can share with you all. Zoe does such ace work and it deserves a big showing!
This episode on the Craft Cartel Podcast we have a lovely long chat to the super inspiring Zoe Thompson-Moore from the Addington Revolutionary Womyn’s Craft Circle. Zoe was my partner in crime at the TiNA Festival and Newcastle when we got together with some locals for the first fence stitching project.
Only time for [...]
A little while ago I mentioned a new project that was about to begin at Radical Cross Stitch and now it’s time to share it with you all.
The Fabric of Resistance project has been started as a way of recording, archiving and celebrating the awesome herstory of craft based resistance. Originally I was just [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
A year ago I took some of the profits earned by selling my recycled clothing crafts and made a Kiva microcredit loan. I figured I should put my money where my mouth is and support someone doing ace crafty stuff and trying to make a money out of it, in another part of the [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
"I don't regard myself as an artist. I am a craftsman. Fuck art." - Clifford Harper
