How to be a Handmade Hero Part 3: Goat, chickens and cool schools
It is jawdroppingly lovely here. This means that it’s a bit tough to get my head around how somewhere so utterly gorgeous can have any troubles at all. People are going hungry here? Seriously?
read moreHow to be a Handmade Hero Part 2: No sleep till Beneh Meriah
The second thrilling instalment of my Indonesia trip with Save the Children and three Craft Stars for the Craftivist Jigsaw Project. We travel to deepest Bener Meriah, come hell or rather too high water.
Also features more stuff on a bike than you can possibly imagine, more people in a pick-up truck then is healthy, and Hilary ‘Craftblog UK’ Pullen eating weird roadside fruit.
read moreHow to be a Handmade Hero: Part 1 – A girl, a mouse, a jigsaw piece and a whole lot of optimism
I put on my Handmade Superhero cape and head off to Indonesia with Save the Children for the Craftivist Jigsaw Project. I’m taking a knitted mouse, a jigsaw piece and a whole load of optimism. My mission is to report back to the craft world and hopefully convince you that us crafty types can make a difference.
Watch my first video and see…
read moreBeing a piece of the Craftivist Jigsaw: how craft can help change the world for the better
Can one tiny stitch change the world? Join me and the rest of the craft community in the Craftivist Jigsaw Project, and find out how you can use your crafty kung fu to be a world changer. Go on.
read moreFree pattern: Bonkers Beanies for St Mungo’s Woolly Hat Day
This autumn I’ve teamed up with the folks at St Mungo’s, a charity ‘opening doors for the homeless’, to champion their Woolly Hat Day and rally the knitting masses to use your purly powers to make a difference in the lives of people who need your help to find a home.
read moreGoing Guerrilla Gardening: the discovery of Amelia Bearheart
In the heart of London grows a lovely field of guerrilla gardening lavender. After wondering about the green and leafy guerrilla gardening world for so long it was high time I joined the guerrilla gardening crew and got my hands dirty.
read moreUpdate: Stitch London Olympics Week 2
Week Two of the Stitch London Olympics. Proving herself to be the Jessica Ennis of knitted pigeons Cooey has gone for gold in a whole host of events since then. Here are the highlights of the woolly week gone by
read moreStitch London Olympics: the pigeon Olympic games
It’s been a long and nervous wait but the Stitch London 2012 Olympics are finally here! Let’s the Purly Pigeon Olympic Games begin!
read moreFor sale: the world’s only knitted BT ArtBox Monster
Muncher the BT ArtBox monster is for sale! The Dial M for Monster auction offers you the chance to have a handmade monster in your life for ever. If you don’t buy him now someone else will go home with the monster that was meant for you! The horror!
read moreMonster ArtBox update: When Muncher met Plarchie
Day 24 on the Trafalgar Square roundabout: a pirate tattoo, a meeting between two giant knitted brothers, and Plarchie the giant squid gets taunted by the world’s bravest child.
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