Welcome to all the visitors from Sew, Mama, Sew! I’m so honoured to be a part of such an inspirational project. I’ve already made two things and have a long list of other projects to do. Hope you find this tutorial useful
We all know that making our own things is [...]
I am an anarchist
My partner is a georgist
We bought land
IRONY!
We acknowledge that we live, eat, play, dance and sing on Aboriginal land. (Up Yours John Howard)
We went to the Coburg Trash and Treasure Market in the weekend. It was seriously worth the effort! Despie the freezing cold (first thing I bought was gloves and a woolly hat), we had a riot of a time buying pieces of useless and useful stuff.
But I reckon the best score was this [...]
All the photos from the Extreme Craft Exhibition in Lithuania can now be seen here. Including these groovy shots of Red Emma.
Today’s post brought to you by the letter B.
It doesn’t take long when you get into Radical Cross Stitch to start leaving needles everywhere, especially in the arms of couches. My partner had started to make some subtle observations about the hazards of sitting on the couch. So when I saw this wonderful tutorial at Crafting Chaos I knew I had [...]
Now here’s a tutorial for you. Want to learn how to transform a classy wee NZ Post courier bag into a stylish document wallet?
Well not quite transform, more like copy and replace…
I saw this in Fat Helens in Chapel Street, Prahan. And seriously, how could I resist something with a tag like this?
I’ve been wanting to post this for ages but I gave this to someone without taking a photo first and I only just got round to going to her house ith a camera!
So presenting “Cross Stitch Bling”
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Basically this is a patch that can be attached to anything; bag, t-shirt, whatever. And I gave it in [...]
Saw this stuck to a car in St Kilda. Quite possibly the weirdest company advert I’ve ever seen.
Sure that would’ve made some great team building in some of my previous jobs!
I finished my first ‘grown-up’ item of clothing and I’m so stoked how it turned out. Inspired by the Open Source Embroidery Project, I’ve done the HTML for ‘end racism’ onto a hoodie.
This is a close up of the text which I did with chain stitch, which is quite puffy and cool.
I also did [...]
May I introduce to you all my lovely new daughter, Tara.
She’s seriously clever and beautiful and adorable and magical and all those other words that parents use (but I mean extra ’cause of course, Tara is that extra wee bit special than all the other babies!)
Tara was born on the 7th of February 2007, weighing [...]
Little known fact: I originally set up this blog because I wanted to get into the habit of writing so I might just maybe start writing better.
Little did I know that I was about to fill a void in the NZ blogosphere by writing about political issues from a Green perspective. Which, at [...]
Well it was brilliant fun and totally crazy at the same time. I really want to write a lot about last weekend but I’m so feckin busy trying to move to another country that I don’t really have time. So instead, you can look at some photos here and read this great op-ed [...]
Well, that had to be about one of the most fun fortnights of my whole life!
The Black GST had a few key objectives of the campaign (and a few other minor ones) and they were all met.
Firstly, the objective of the campaign was to put the Queen on notice that as sovereign head of Australia, [...]
Cheeky bugger!
Originally uploaded by kakariki.
Oh that cheeky grin!
Originally uploaded by kakariki.
Rod and Jeanette
Originally uploaded by kakariki.
While we hear fuck all of what’s going on over there through our media, bar some stories skimming over the issues being dealt with inside the meeting rooms. There is some ABSOLUTELY AMAZING resistance going on over there. The police have naturally been out in full force, riot squad gears, abusing [...]
Rod
Originally uploaded by kakariki.
Today the Greens held a silent protest to mark the arrival at Parliament of Mr Wu Bangguo, the chair of China’s Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress.
Rod was on the forecourt holding a Tibetan flag in solidarity with the people of Tibet. The Chinese security tried to get the New [...]
"I don't regard myself as an artist. I am a craftsman. Fuck art." - Clifford Harper
