#Craftivism

[badstitched]

Celebrating Trans Day of Visibility 2025

This year, I am supporting Trans Lifeline!  This cause and organization are important to me because they do amazing work with the trans community, providing crisis support, criminal justice support, and resources for mental health and hormone therapies.  Over the years, they’ve given over $1.1 million in microgrants to help with legal name changes.  If you’d like to support Trans Lifeline and also receive this pattern, Metamorphosis, or previous year's patterns, please see the Tiltify link below. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ Donate $5+ USD for Metamorphosis Donate $15+ USD for Metamorphosis, Cuttlefish (2024), and Rise Up (2023).

DONATE HERE: https://tiltify.com/@bad-stitch/cross-stitch-for-trans-lifeline 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

100% of the proceeds will go to this amazing organization and these patterns will only be available through Tuesday, 4/1/24 midnight EST.   Cross Stitch PDFs will be emailed to you within 24 hours to the email you provide Tiltify, but I will be actively ensuring you get your rewards.  

To my trans friends, I see you, I love you, and you are not alone.

[knithacker]

This all day long … Elena Kanagy-Loux's article is right-on. I myself have made it a point in recent years not to share any content that glibly uses the phrase, "not your grandma's " because it's a) lazy and b) dismisses the real fact that grandmothers and older textile artists have worked hard to keep craft traditions alive and evolving, not to mention their immense skills. We should be thanking them and looking to them for inspiration, not mocking them. via @hyperallergic ❤️

[dinosaur-ears]

I've been channeling my anxiety into knitting and the result is the fastest scarf I've done by far. I'm hoping to do a whole series of pride knits.

[jamiemccanless]

Musselburgh Hat

Playing around with both ends of my scrappy Musselburgh hat before I shorten it to a wearable length. Pulled all the way down, I appear to have been detained by the Stockinette Chapter of The Knitting Craftivists (interesting image). I almost like the massively wide brim but it hides the Trans Pride stripes, and I want to be a visible ally. The bag cap has a kind of Renaissance or liberty cap look, but it's not exactly a 21st century look. Onward!

[our-trans-punk-experience]

Idk how well this resonates with other people but one of my favourite things with being trans and punk is painstakingly embroidering the trans flag onto my battle jacket. Taking this thing that's been so heavily feminine for centuries, something that's been undeniably Woman Activity and using it in my own, nonfeminine way. I fucking love it. I love embroidering onto my jacket in general but especially when I embroider things about being trans

FUCK YEAH PUNK EMBROIDERY!! [all punks go embroider some shit rn this is your sign]

[thackeroy]

This project...oh boy this project. So. I hate the yarn I used, it was an odd cotton yarn and my fingers did NOT like the texture of it, it almost felt like knitting with cotton wool which I also do not enjoy the texture of and makes me want to crawl out of my skin suit. But, despite my obvious dislike of touching this yarn, I do love this project because of what it is.

I did not make this as a wearable scarf, my point in making this was more as a teaching tool, as a physical and visible example of climate change. Every four rows, (every two garter bumps?) is representative of one year. The colours, starting with the blue, represent the average global temperature starting from 1922 all the way to 2021.

[theenbyroiderer]

More from the archives. This time an in progress pic of my first craftivist embroidery. The first of many. Lure people in with something pretty, and then you make them learn something new. Is the hope anyway. Or piss off some bigots, that's fine too.

[chitosekataokasblog-blog]

先月に続いて、今月もおしゃべりしながら手芸する会をやります。先月は編み物をお持���になった方がプードルの手提げバックを編まれてました。私は着なくなったシャツワンピースの裾を切ってシャツにする作業をしました。作るものをお持ちください。

[badstitched]

I'm very happy to announce that I will be campaigning again this year for Trans Lifeline, providing a cross stitch pattern to raise funds for this awesome organization to continue providing helpline services, resources, and microgrants for the trans community.

Transgender Day of Visibility is Monday, March 31, 2025.

Please stay tuned for the campaign to begin Friday, March 28th, and tell your friends!

[knithacker]

The Purple Lilac Crochets Science So You Can Too: 👉 https://buff.ly/3pjVz2Y

[dinosaur-ears]

I still have to weave the ends in, but I finished another pride scarf! At first I was really disappointed that this yarn got the color order wrong, but while googling to check i found that it does match this "wartime" nb pride flag, which gives me great joy.

These Pride projects have been an absolute savior for dealing with my anxiety lately. If you're feeling overwhelmed with the state of the world, try making something with your hands 💜

[jamiemccanless]

Musselburgh Hat

Finished! Daylight was almost gone, so I'll take more/better photos of my scrappy Musselburgh hat another day. Close to the end, a stitch marker sprang off the needle (as they do) and into the hat. I fished it out, but thought a bit and dropped it in again. A lot of people are feeling isolated and invisible these days, so it's my odd little gesture of acknowledgment and keeping them in mind regardless of whether they're in view.

[our-trans-punk-experience]

if you have time and access to public areas printing out or making posters about fascism, human rights, etc is a good idea. I've been sneaking posters onto the community boards in my neighborhood.

great idea, and if anyone has posters they want to share, share them here, and i will tag punk poster

[cheezette-gazette]

Finished repairing/ reinforcing these jeans. My thigh area tends to, um, wear out more quickly than the rest of the pants. So I took preventative measures to stop the fraying. This is my sixth pair of denim material pants that I've repaired in the thigh area, in this manner. Two (2) shorts and four(4) long pairs.

Materials/Supplies used:

Denim pants

Scrap denim fabric

Pinking sheers (to cut woven fabric without the fabric fraying)

Sewing machine (I've tried to hand repair previous pants by hand. and trust me, knowledge of sewing by machine does help.)

Denim needles

Thread (that matches the garment in question)

Straight pins

I wish I remembered to take 'before' photos when repairing/making something....

The Opposite of Hate is Mending.

[singitforthegirls]

I made this pattern for @crossstitchforgaza's (on instagram) charity bundle to raise money for Hadeel's family in Gaza. 🇵🇸

Donate at least 15$ to the gofundme fundraiser mentioned there and you'll get a bundle of patterns after you e-mail them proof of donation soon. 🥰🫶

All the info is on www.crossstitchforgaza.com. 🫶❤️

From their latest post: "As the behind-the-scenes team, we're excited to launch the full, complete bundle, and to take a big step towards getting Hadeel and her family to safety. In the eighteen months since their home was first damaged in an airstrike, they have struggled-- and they are struggling now.

If you are able, please consider donating to help Hadeel's family stay afloat until the fundraiser launches on April 4th. Our team will be doing the same, and all donations of €15 or more dated from March 7th, 2025 onward will be eligible to be sent in to receive a copy of the bundle once it launches April 4th. The link to donate is in our bio as well."