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- 15 new photos on our Flickr http://t.co/30oZOxSH Let us know what you think :) 1 hour ago
- Reading @HUCKmagazine about @Adbusters Great quote by Kalle Lasn= "revolutions don't happen until things get really personal" ur thoughts? 9 hours ago
- @lucysiegle we hope ur talk goes great tonight in Manchester:) some of r Manchester crafty activists will be in the crowd.keep fighting!:)x 1 day ago
- want to become a craftivist, learn more about craftivism&gain the tools to make a Mini Protest Banner?workshopMarch18th http://t.co/OcM7OfBQ 1 day ago
- Just left a XStitched mask on Eleanor Rigby statue in Liverpool.I wonder how long it will stay up http://t.co/F638tkOd 2 days ago
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Stuck for a New Year’s Resolution? Join our London Workshop to encourage positive change in 2012 :)
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OMGeee this is the cute-ist poster we have ever been on!
We have been big fans of Made in the Shade ever since a few of us went to their Glasgow shop (The Maisonette) and loved everything. So when they asked us to deliver a workshop in their beautiful Pop Up Library at this years Christmas BUST Craftacular we couldn’t say no. Continue reading
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Come and see us at BUST Craftacular 27th Nov 2011
We are very excited and proud to say that we have been accepted to have a stall at this years Christmas BUST Craftacular 27th November in York Hall, Bethnal Green, London. Every year this event gets bigger with more people queuing up early in the morning to get their free goodie bag and be the first to buy the beautiful handmade gifts craftstars make. Continue reading
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Give your friends/family a gift from the Craftivist Collective this Christmas (if you HAVE to buy presents that is!)
Giving an original gift from our online shop this Christmas is a fantastic way to highlight global injustice in a fun and hands-on way over the Christmas period.
So as you have probably guessed, we love making things and try our hardest not to buy stuff we don’t need. Therefore we are encouraging fellow craftivists and supporters not to buy unethical gifts or feel the pressure into showing your love for your family and friends through buying them stuff they don’t need (and sometimes they don’t want!). But… hopefully this doesn’t come across contradictory… if you really do need to buy people presents then why not take it as an opportunity to provoke conversation about injustice over your Christmas period buy giving them one of our gifts and/or give them a craftivism kit to make during their time off work and become a Craftivist in 2012?!
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We gagged an Antony Gormley statue to talk about inequality
One of our current projects is to cross-stitch messages into masks to leave on statues across the world. One of our craftivists decided to put a mask on one of the Antony Gormley statues which have permanent residence on Crosby Beach. The project is called ‘Another Place’ Continue reading
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Come join us at the book launch of The State of Craft (which we are in!)
We would really love it if you came and celebrated the launch of this beautiful craft book with us. There are 60 projects and one of them happens to be one of our crafty activism projects (our Mini Protest Banner project). We love being part of such a lovely craft community and want you to experience this great occasion with us and our crafty friends. It’s open to all 
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Did you see those people stitching as part of a window display?
During October 2011 3 craftivists were asked to create a craftivism window display in the independent bookshop News from Nowhere in Liverpool. The window was mutually beneficial: News From Nowehere were keen to support the Craftivist Collective (free advertising and selling our products) whilst we were super-keen to encourage people to buy books from this shop on activism, craft and political craft instead of buying from large chain stores. Independent bookshops are becoming far too rare.
We hung up our giant love letter we made at the Hayward Gallery (see here for more info on that project), propped up big photo boards showing some of the projects we have done and scattered craft stuff around the window such as thread, scissors.
We decided last minute that the window was big enough for us to have a break and stitch inside it. We got comfy with our coffee and started stitching. It was funny to watch the reaction of the public: some people didn’t see us, others looked a bit nervous until we smiled at them and some people even came in and asked us what we were doing and then asked if they could squeeze in! Hopefully the window display and craftivists inside it have stayed as memories in people’s minds and these memories have led to conversations about activism, politics, the power of craft and justice for many people.
The window display will be up for the entire month of November so please pop in and support this beautiful bookshop.
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Spanish Craftivist in Liverpool shares her passion for justice
Maite Puntes came along to a craftivist workshop led by our Founder Sarah Corbett in Liverpool in October. Maite has recently moved to Liverpool from Spain and was keen to get to know like-minded people as well as create something to provoke people to think about injustice issues she cares about. She kindly emailed us a photograph of her completed Mini Protest Banner with an explanation of it below. If you have made a mini protest banner (you can buy our kits here) we would love to showcase it here to provoke discussion about it and so people who find it in situ can find out more information about your cause in your blog here! 
Maite Puntes wrote:
“The most extreme face of male violence is the murder of women. In my country, Spain, it´s not just a social problem; in this year 2011, 52 women have been murdered by their partners or ex partners. This number hiddens the fact that thousand women are battered in many ways everyday. Continue reading
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Plymouth talk on “Craft for Campaigning and Training”
We really love getting emails from people around the world who have stumbled across us on line, in person or seen one of our guerrilla craftivism pieces in their community and decide to email us say they like what we are doing. It’s really encouraging and we love to hear what other crafty activists are up to and highlight it on this website to inspire others . Katie contacted us to let us know of the crafty campaigns workshop she delivered and how it went. Thanks Katie! x
“I work for a national campaigning organisation, specifically an educational campaigning organisation that’s been in the news a fair bit over the last 12 months. Most of the time I love my job, especially when it comes to working with really amazing and inspiring young campaigners or being surrounded by like minded individuals; however what I love more than my job is making stuff and the craft group I’ve been running in Plymouth for the last 3 years. So by some odd twist of fate I got invited to run a workshop on ‘Craft for Campaigning and Training’ at our last staff training day.
After a brief ‘oh my god how to I make this session not sound like I’m just someone with a wool fetish’ moment, I had a bit of a trawl through the internet and came across the work of the Craftivist Collective, which was, well, mightily exciting and confirmed my longstanding belief that rude notes highlighting bad practise for the likes of some retailers are definitely best delivered via cross stitch.
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OMGeee! We got our form of crafty activism into another craft book!
It feels like a lifetime ago since we were asked to submit contents for this beautiful craft book so when we got the email inviting us to the book launch and the book sent to us in the post to see it felt like a bit of a shock… but an amazing and surreal shock!
We are chuffed to get our activism messages out into the craft world through avenues like craft books, magazines and craft fairs and we hope that the readers are encouraged to do this project and join this beautiful movement of passionate craftsters who want to help make the world a better place.
State of Craft is a brand new craft book from the team behind the hit Making Stuff (Black Dog Publishing 2006). It featuress over 60 clearly explained step-by-step ideas ranging from pom-pom necklaces and cross-stitched tote bags to jam-jar lamps and old-jumper pouffes. Interviews with craftsters provide further inspiration and a how-to section covers the basics of knitting, crochet and sewing. Craft’s second wave is upon us – it’s time to break away from the high street and into your toolbox!
You can buy it at most book stores and find our Mini Protest Banner project covering 3 whole pages woop woop!
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