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 [...]
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 [...]
My latest crafty obsession is reclaiming old ties and using them to boldly proclaim an objective in life, or current role within the patriarchy. In jest, naturally.
I believe ties are the strongest symbol of the stranglehold that patriarchy has on men. Many people are under the misguided impression that patriarchy is a power that [...]
International Women’s Day is always a special day for me because I like to spend the day reviewing the last year of my own life through a feminist lens. I also like to spend time remembering all of the women who have fought and died for the freedoms I now enjoy.
This year I spent [...]
Here’s a very cute use of cross stitch in art. Flickr user Sparklyvodka (great name, like her already!) made these as a final project for an art course. These are all based on things the celebrities would never say. Although I wonder if there should be (in private) at the end of that statement..
For those of you unfortunate souls who aren’t members of the Radical House Wives Baking Club and Terrorist Society Facewank group, I will share this message with you. Because it is so wonderful!
West Mallee Protection Easter Drive Fundraiser
Help contribute to West Mallee Protection – a support group for the Kokatha Mula Nation, an affiliate [...]
In the weekend I went to the innaugural Art Jam at Section 8 Bar (yip, same place where we have the craft cartel markets). Art Jam is a giant DiY fest.
We provide the materials - you provide the creativity
It will be like the bastard love child of the Iron Chef & Melbourne’s fartsiest artsiest scenesters - a little bit freaky looking but nonetheless deserving of our unconditional love.
And there’s prizes!
Each week there’s a mystery object which needs to be included. This week it was a condom.
I’m in the middle of working on a pile of new cross stitch patterns to turn into kits. It’s pretty exciting! I started off with a few designs to see if any of you out there in the intyweb would like them. And combining internet sales and craft cartel sales, I’ve only [...]
Check out these hot new stitches from Johanna at Cross Yr Stitches
We have to excuse the pics because apparently the only camera Johanna has is on her mobile. Goodness do you think we should all pitch in a and get her a proper camera? These are such great pieces of work I think [...]
"I don't regard myself as an artist. I am a craftsman. Fuck art." - Clifford Harper
