Crafting with a Conscience

Modified pillow at Love From Hetty and Dave, Pokesdown.

Leigh Bowser is focusing her final year of her degree on encouraging people to donate blood.  Her cousin Chloe is 21 months year old and needs a blood transfusion every 4-5 weeks.  This has inspired Leigh to use her artistic skills to encourage you to donate.  So, how can you help?  Firstly, donate blood!  Secondly, Leigh has initiated The Blood Bag Project.  All you crafty types out there can create your own textile blood bag from her template online and send it in.  Please follow her blog and reblog this as much as you can to get the word out.

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fourmarys:

katydidhats:

smash the patriarchy hat!!!! 

WHAT. LOVE. WANT.

FUCK YES RADICAL KNITS.

(via unconventionalmoose)

• Question: Hi! Where are you located/teaching these workshops? I would love if you posted some more info about your craft projects! - mediascape
• Answer:

  Hey!  They’re actually not going on at the mo, now I’m doing workshops in a bag which I’ll post about soon!  And if you’d like to take part I could send you a bagged up workshop!

More workshop photos.  I taught some people to stitch, rag rug, do origami and various other things from scratch, all in all, not a bad day!

How Knitting Behind Bars Transformed Maryland Convicts

Thanks for this 9kinds !  This is the most lovely story =]

I went to Thought Bubble Sequential Art Festival a while ago and got these gorgeous mini comics by Katie Green, purveyor of adorable drawings!  Not only are these comics printed on recycled paper, they have tons of green crafts and little bits about nature and things.  And book reviews, including bits about Shaun Tan, To Kill a Mockingbird and Blankets.  I was extremely happy!

Thought Bubble and other comic/art/etc festivals really inspire me, it shows if you put the work in you can make drawing, and crafting, into a career.  I plan to put a lot of work in =]

Teaching people in Coffee Evolutions how to make cranes and rag rugs from recycled things.

This is my actual everest.  One day I’m going to finish it and it’s going to be the most gorgeous subversive rag rug that says all about how exploitative capitalism is, but I don’t think that’s going to happen for a while!  It’s a shame, I had high hopes.

I work at a garbage processing facility and I see where things go when other people end their relationship with them. Halloween costumes, toys, food, decorations, shoes, Blackberries, electronics, everythnig imaginable. It makes me not want to fill the world with anything else. 

But then there’s the joy is reusing and recreating through craft and it makes it a bit better.

p.s. we process the garbage into fuel pellets to be burned as an alternative fuel source as a replacement for coal so I guess it’s not all bad, but it makes me sad to see how much people waste on a daily basis

From: purpledrunner.

I really appreciate this message, it’s lovely to hear from someone on the same wavelength.  I would kind of love to work somewhere like that, it’d be such an eye opener!