BBC Craftivism coming to your tellybox
Can craft help change the world? Meet the crafters turning handmade art into action. Craftivism: Making a Difference is on BBC4 Feb 1st at 10pm.
Event: Aliens on the Overground (Camberwell Arts Festival)
Join the sneaky stitching graffiti knitter Deadly Knitshade on Friday June 21st at 8pm for a yarnstorming alien invasion of the London Overground.
Handmade Melody: Cultural Hijack takes over the city
Yarnstorms tend to be quite quiet things. Lurking there all woolly and colourful but not really saying much to the ears. Why are the ears not included in the woolly love, I ask you? It’s a tragedy that must be fixed!
London Tree Week: The Fluffy Forest Four
When the knitphone rang and the Greater London Authority asked me to show some trees a little woolly love for London Tree Week, part of the Mayor’s RE:LEAF initiative, how could I refuse?
Being 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.
Going 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.
Monster 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.
Monster ArtBox update Day 21: Muncher gets a tattoo
Muncher the Monster has been on the Trafalgar Square Roundabout for 23 days. He braves a milkshake spill, the hugs of the passing hordes, and gets an unexpected tattoo and requires a bit of stitched surgery.
All in a day’s work for London’s handmade monster.
Whodunnknit event: Meet the BT ArtBox Monster Maker
Wondering all about Muncher the BT ArtBox Monster? Monday July 9th at 7pm is your chance to meet the Monster Maker and ask anything you like. I’ll be on the Trafalgar Square Roundabout from 7pm and will be talking about our crafty creations and any fielding Monster Making questions you might like to ask.
Come and say hello and meet the Monster and maker. Go on
Monster ArtBox Update Day 3: Please look after this monster
Day three of Muncher the BT Artbox Monster living on the Trafalgar Square Roundabout. I’m called to in bring handmade monster first aid. But how on earth do we convince London to look after him?