Johanna at Cross Yr Stitches (our 2nd favourite cross stitch blog!) has just finished this super cool xstitch
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 [...]
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!
This is the podcast that nearly broke me folks! It’s been a major struggle to get this one together, due to various glitches in the Matrix. It’s been one of those if it can go wrong, it will go wrong type projects! I was intending to get this online by Monday but [...]
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 [...]
Hope you’ve all been as inspired as I am with all the Free Tibet action going on around the world. I was stoked to read today that Wangari Maathai, a Green Party woman who was the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize has pulled out of the rally on humanitarian grounds.
Not all [...]
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 [...]
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..
Yes folks, you’ve heard the whispers and the rumours are true, the Craft Cartel is now a Podcast!
This episode we talk about the Cartel and where it all began. We talk to Melanie from Satchel. And share some fun and subversive crafty projects for you to get involved in. Plus a bit [...]
Righto so I got tagged for this meme (goodness it’s been a while) to tell 6 things of your life which look like manias or tics, and then pass it to 6 other persons.
So I’ll cheat and take the hint and say that number one would be my amusement of all things poo. I’ll [...]
Check out these adorable pendants from Etsy seller Quid
Aren’t they gorgeous! I was almost tempted to not show you all so I could get them for myself. But how could I deprive you all!
I love those little frames. I’m going to try and track down some for me. If anyone knows [...]
It’s Friday Fun time again! Me thinks this is gonna become a regular thing. Especially as it’s getting colder and I’m cuddled up on the couch wrapped in blankets!
So today I’m going to show you some nerdy stitch fun.
I often say to people who wonder why I’m convinced that cross stitch is cool that cross stitch is just like pixel art, just heaps slower.
So I loved it when I found this one:
The new version of the “I sublimate my rage…” cross stitch is progressing. I’ve got a lot left to do, but here’s a sneak peek:
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On Wednesday Kevin Rudd apologised on behalf of the Australian Commonwealth Government to the Aboriginal People for the policy of enforced removal of Aboriginal children from their families. This was a policy with the intention of breeding out Aboriginal People and saw more than 50,000 children removed from their families. In some cases, [...]
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 [...]
Well given that Kevin Rudd is actually saying Sorry this week, I figured I really should get around to putting my Sorry cross stitch kit online. I put this together a couple of months ago but I have been struggling getting photos together and the time to do it.
So presenting the Sorry Cross Stitch [...]
"I don't regard myself as an artist. I am a craftsman. Fuck art." - Clifford Harper
