Links

Welcome to the bitchin’ bodacious links page! This is a pretty carefully selected list and I tend to check most sites pretty frequently so they should all have pretty useful stuff on them. If you find a link that’s gone bung, please let me know. And if you know of a website that should be here drop me a line. No guarantees mind you!

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Crafty Sites and Blogs

The AntiCraft It’s dark and knitty.
Craft Cartel No rose scented doilies here. All subversive Melbourne crafters come join!
Craft City Melbourne Yip, Melbourne is the coolest craftiest place in the world. End of story.
Crafting a Green Cause DiY for environmentalists
Craftivism craft + activism
Craftster You think you’re the only one that makes things that look like that? Think again
Craftzine Brilliant ideas and an internet’s worth of inspiration.
Cross Yr Stitches Craft to fan the flames of discontent. Absolutely ace cross stitching here! And Johanna is one of our contributors!
Ele Weekend Ele of Open Source Embroidery fame has a blog, mostly updating the Quilt project at the mo.
Extreme Craft I seriously wish I knew where Garth finds all this stuff!
Fifty Two Acts A work in progress and probably the most radical feminist craft project on the internet. It’s cyberfeminist creative action with an awesome analysis.
Frey Art with Machines. Literally. Wonderful Beautiful Sounds for the Soul.
glittyknittykitty knittivism for a cuddly revolution
Kaotic Kraft Kuties Craft for grown ups. And representing it west side styles.
Kate Pemberton The holy grail of cross stitch. Kate is my goddess.
Kate Westerholt Sampling samplers
Knitta And you thought knitting wasn’t a street art
The Little Red Blog of Revolutionary Knitting Begin Immediately!
Masquerade Knitting in ya face
Meet Me At Mikes I admit it’s a bit too cute for me but these kids do an awesome job organising and networking crafters in Melbourne (you listening Craft Victoria?) and do nice things for charity so we like them (heaps)
MicroRevolt The internet home of seriously cool political craft action. When we grow up we hope this site archives as much cool stuff as this one. Gush! Gush!
Mix Tape Zine a cool Melbourne zine about being crafty
Mr X Stitch the go to place for the latest in stitchy goodness
Open Source Embroidery Patterns Libre!
Outdoor Knit there’s plenty of knit tagging out there these days but these awesome peeps do it BEST!
Polka Dot Rabbit Cate is ace. And she’s in the Cartel. And she loves to think out loud about the politics of craft so check her out (and buy her stuff!)
Recycled By Hyena Goddess Recycling Crafter. No one makes stuff like this, check it out!
Revolutionary Knitting Circle A loose knit of revolutionaries
Sew Green Craft on a finite planet.
Show Your Workings Lovely beautiful things from Nu Zuld and Helen GETS IT
Subversive Cross Stitch The first craft web site I ever visited. Go visit now and get on the mailing list.
Tattoo Baby Dolls You know you want to
TiGER c/o SEWiCiDE I don’t understand other languages very well. But the pictures are hot. And there’s a gorgeous political bent to all of it.
Torrence Does … Stuff What is it with all these cool European vegan feminist crafty people!
True Stitches The politics of craft. Like, why we should make our own stuff for each other rather than buy it from Kmart.
Ulrika Erdes Embroidery isn’t just for canvas you know

Arty and Booky Websites and Blogs

Cunt: A Declaration of Independence – The Book You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll humiliate rapists in your community
Doris This is the zine that quite literally changed my life. Without going into epic details, if you’re a crafty anarcha-fem gardening travelling goddess (or want to be) this is the zine for you. (and there’s an anthology book which should be on your bookshelf)
Friendly/Agitate Pro Art Anti War
Groundswell Collective Only people with clever pants on need apply
Kimya Dawson The soundtrack to a radical cross stitch revolution
Just Seeds Street art and political poster design. This is one seriously awesome co-op.
Make Art Like You Care And ’cause there’s way too many people who don’t!
RebelArt Connecting Art and Activism
Van Thanh Rudd One of my absolute favourite Australian political artists. Literally throwing rocks at the establishment.
Wooster Collective The best street art website on the net.

Political Blogs

Anarchafairy Real smart stuff. I wish I could write this ‘smart’ but I don’t have the time or the attention span. And possibly not the smarts…
Anarchia Asher’s blog where freedom wins every time. Hands down!
Cunt Is Not a Dirty Word Deep warm and delightful. And it’s my favourite Cartel member so you have to visit.
Earthsharing Australia It’s the economy, stupid
Fight Dem Back Nazis have no chance with this crafty mob around
Frogblog It’s Green. And Smart. And Funny.
Goonanism It’s Hammyland. And we like Hammy, cause he gives us this site. And he’s real cool. And smart. Do what he says.
The Hand Mirror This is what a bunch of feminists looks like.
Insultadarity Rosa scares me. It’s mostly too smart for me. But EXCEPTIONALLY funny (and creepy).
Situationist International Creative Revolutions start here
Slackbastard Smart. Anarchist. And prolific. Really, really prolific!
The Art of the Possible Shhh they’re gonna get us!
Treaty Now! Reconciliation is meaningless without Treaty. Get informed and sort the unfinished business
Typing Is Not Activism Environmentalism, Politics and good ol funny shit.
Whenua, Fenua, Enua, Vanua Nothing short of Indigenous Revolution.
Women of Colour Sisterhood Being Global. For real this time.