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Ooh I love the internet being full of clever people.
The Social Design Network recently held a competition called Power to the Pedal “This competition looks for ways to enhance the biking experience with designs for accessories or add-ons to existing bikes.”
There’s some great entries and I urge you to check them all out. But [...]

Craftivism

Friends of the Earth Knitting Circle

(although I’m sure they wouldn’t object to cross stitch)

Activism, Photos

1979

Pip at Meet Me At Mikes has got this little thing going on at the mo where you pick your favourite year and then flickr it. (I think she’s determined to be a prophet to all the procrastinators in the world..)
Given that it’s my birthday this weekend I thought what the hey and flickrd [...]

Craftivism, Environmental Politics

Green Craft Carnival

Crafting a Green World has started a new blog Carnival called the The Carnival of Green Crafts (naturally).

Anarchism, Craftivism, Feminism, xstitch

All I Want For Christmas

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!

Craftivism, International Politics

Stitch For Senate

I thought I’d already written about this but turns out I only thought about writing about it. Confused?

The Stitch For Senate Project is an antiwar craft collaboration underway to coincide with the upcoming US election. Participants will be drawing on the long history of war knitting projects to knit a helmet liner for every US Senator.

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Intermission and celebration

Hmm yes, well, for those of you who visited over the last 24 hours or so, you would’ve noticed a distinct lack of website.  Yeah well that was a nice little birthday present from Yahoo who decided not to email me to let me know the domain name payment hadn’t gone through (wankers).
Which means that [...]

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