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Sew a NICU Smock for a Preemie Baby: The 2nd Annual Craftsy Charity Sew-Along
If your fingers are itching to get started on your holiday sewing, there’s still time to participate in Craftsy’s 2nd Annual Charity Sew-Along by sewing a NICU smock for a preemie baby. When my...
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Repair Café Events Crowdsource Skills to Fix What’s Broken
A Repair Café is a local event where neighbors come together to mend everything from torn clothes to broken small appliances to furniture. Got a broken toaster, a favorite pair of jeans with a tear, or...
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What’s your crafty new year’s resolution?
Happy almost new year! A new year means that for many of us it’s resolution time…do you have a crafty new year’s resolution? I’ve been mulling over this resolution thing for a few weeks now, and the...
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Craftivism in Action: Smog Bricks Raise Awareness About Beijing Air Pollution
Air pollution in Beijing is at an all-time high, and this craftivist is creating smog bricks to raise awareness and maybe even help the problem. While we don’t address pollution a lot in this space, we...
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Be a Part of the You are So Very Beautiful Project
You are loved. You are enough. You are so very bright. You are so very beautiful. Aren’t these the kinds of messages that you want your loved ones to believe, and the kinds of messages that you’d like...
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Potato Chip Bag 3D Printing [video]
3D printing has a lot of advantages, but at the end of the day, it relies heavily on plastic. One company is trying to turn that into a positive by recycling an interesting material. Does 3D printing...
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Waste Not: Make Cloth Napkins and Rags from Your Stash
You might not think of sewing as a way to change the world, but when you use your skills to make cloth napkins, dish towels, and rags, your impact is huge. Set the table for supper, slide a napkin...
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The Invasive Paper Project: Papermaking with Invasive Plants
What are your invasive plants? Is it kudzu that is the menace where you live, or is it honeysuckle? Garlic mustard? Phragmites? For me, it’s multiflora rose, but I guarantee that wherever you are,...
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The Magic Yarn Project Makes Kids with Cancer into Princesses
The Magic Yarn Project makes the lives of kids with cancer better, one yarn princess wig at a time. The Magic Yarn Project is a volunteer group of Magic Makers that crochets beanies out of extra-soft...
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A Review of Homeward Bound: Does Domesticity Kill Political Activism?
If you’re hyper-vigilant about eating only locally-grown, organic foods, do you care about the passage of food safety laws for factory-made canned goods? If you homeschool your children, do you care...
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Magda Sayeg on the Power of the Yarn Bomb
Magda Sayeg was the founder of the yarn bombing movement, and in this fascinating talk, she dives into how her act of craftivism grew across the world. Sayeg and a group of other female fiber artists...
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Q&A with Cambodia Knits Founder Monika Nowaczyk
Cambodia Knits empowers women to support their families through craft. We are thrilled to share this Q&A with founder Monika Nowaczyk! This isn’t our first time covering Monika Nowaczyk’s work at...
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How to Make a Hanging Mason Bee House
Help a bee out, why don’t you, by building your very own mason bee house? If you don’t know much about native bees, then you might have heard that mason bees are a nuisance. They burrow holes in your...
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The Kid Planted a Redwood: A Review of 23 Ways to be an Eco Hero
I believe that you can teach children about the environment while keeping it positive and even making it fun! This book can help. It may not look like much, but it’s how one of my kids waters one of my...
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EFF Sues Government for Right to Repair
Do you have the right to repair your own stuff? How many times have you considered repairing something, only to figure out that it would be cheaper just to buy a new one? Was it your phone? Your TV?...
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Raubdruckerin Prints T-Shirts from Manhole Covers
They also print tote bags from utility grates, and gym bags from concrete! Raubdruckerin is a Berlin-based printer that focuses on printing from found urban signage. I mean, have you ever looked at a...
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Make Plarn Sleeping Mats for the Homeless
The news reports always make it sound desperately exotic–Sleeping mats! Out of plastic bags!–but the truth is that it’s totally do-able. Every now and then I see the same news articles coming around...
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Crafty Call-to-Arms: Knit Finger Puppets for Kids at IWK Health Centre
Do you love to knit and have lots of little pieces of surplus yarn to show for it? Knit finger puppets with your stash, and give the kids at the IWK Health Centre in Nova Scotia a fun distraction from...
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Buy Lily’s Lovebirds and Send a Girl to School
This fifth grader wants you to help young girls stay in school, and she launched a charitable crafty business to make it happen. Do you want to help her send a girl to school? Money on the ground will...
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Craft for Good with Halos of Hope
Make your next hat for Halos of Hope, an organization that puts handmade hats on the heads of cancer patients. They need hats year-round. If you knit or crochet or even sew, you’ve likely discovered,...
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