Loose Ends Completes Handmade Projects When Their Original Crafters Can’t
Loose Ends makes sure that handmade projects get to their intended recipients when their creators can no longer finish them.
Craftivism
Free Patterns from Indie Pattern Companies: Tops and Bottoms
Here are some of my favorite free patterns from those indie companies! We’re starting big with tops and bottoms, ranging from easy basics to add to your wardrobe to fancier styles to dress you up nicely.
Animal Rescues Need You To Donate These 20 Handmade Items
Animal rescues need YOU to do some crafting for good this summer!
Looking for something to make that will also make a difference?
Here are some handmade items that you can make and donate to your favorite animal rescue!
Sew a Wildlife Rescue Pouch from Fleece Scraps
Wildlife rescues use fleece pouches to contain small and baby animals in a way that keeps them feeling safe and comfortable. It mimics the type of pouch that a marsupial animal will be familiar with, and recreates the feeling of a nest for other animals.
DIY Cat Scratcher from Upcycled Cardboard Boxes
This upcycled cardboard cat scratcher is a great way to use up all your corrugated cardboard boxes. Cats love it, and it’s a useful donation to your local animal shelter.
The Revolution Will Not Be Government-Funded: The Auntie Sewing Squad and Mask Making as Craftivism
But if you were one of the 800 members of the Auntie Sewing Squad, you helped make over 250,000 fabric masks to donate to 200 communities around the country, prioritizing the vulnerable communities that were the most affected by COVID-19 and the most disenfranchised from the political power bases that informed community response.
Is Cement Eco-Friendly? Spoiler Alert: Not Really
The manufacturing process for making cement at its current large scale is highly toxic, and is one of the worst things happening to the environment at the moment.
Why Shein Sucks, and What You Should Wear Instead
But alas, Shein is yet another imported fast fashion outlet, even more insidiously unsustainable than the other imported fast fashion outlets.
So if Shein is so unsustainable, why is it so popular, especially with young adults who should know better?
You Should Be Making Bottle Bricks
Bottle bricks are a way of both accepting the reality of plastic waste, and also using the physical fact of that waste for a specific purpose.
It’s Your Job to End the Reign of Craft Vinyl
Vinyl as a product has been around for decades, and vinyl as a craft supply has been around for nearly as long. It’s the popularity and affordability of computerized die-cut machines, however, that has really brought craft vinyl into popularity. With a die-cut machine, it’s simple to create a perfect graphic from crafty vinyl, requiring only weeding and adhesion to make a complete product.
Your Resin Craft is Killing the Planet
Resin crafts, unfortunately, are terrible for the planet.
20 DIY Cloth Masks
If you’re just getting started on creating your own cloth masks, or if you’re looking to switch up your go-to pattern–or add a handy accessory, OR make a matching cloth mask for a kid’s teddy bear!–then check out this list of my favorite DIY cloth mask patterns and tutorials.
How To Make Stamped Clay Seed Bombs
Done properly, and distributed carefully, seed bombs CAN work
Crafty Book Review: Painted Rocks with Art on the Rocks
You get a rock and you paint on it, Bro!
Craftivism in Action: The Fighter Tee
Looking for a crafty way to support a great cause?
Charlotte’s Friends Upcycled Dolls
Lori Guilderson, owner of Charlotte’s Friends, gives traditional dolls (think Bratz) a feminist makeover. Meet Lori and learn all about what inspires her!
Crafty Book Review: The Art and Craft of Wood
Sooo…. backyard lumberjacking is a thing.
Crafting for Good: Warm Up America!
If you like to knit or crochet but don’t feel like you ever have the time to make a finished piece, so how can you possibly craft for charity, then I have the perfect organization for you.
Crafting for Good: Project Linus
Want to give traumatized or hospitalized children something secure and soft to cuddle? Check out Project Linus, which provides handmade quilts and blankets to children in need across the country.
Cheerios Gave You Free Seeds. Should You Plant Them?
And now you’re left wondering whether, after the trouble that you took to order them and the time and resources spent to package and mail them to you, you should actually plant them at all.
Craft for Good with The Snuggles Project
Cats and dogs deserve our crafty love, too, especially when they’re all alone in an animal shelter.
Handmade Review: The True Cost
If you’re into fashion.
Craft for Good with Bridge and Beyond
Bridge and Beyond is an organization that provides warm handmade goods for individuals experiencing homelessness in Central Ohio.
Craftivism: The Pussyhat Project
Marchers and supporters for the Women’s March on Washington, D.C., on January 21, 2017, have inspired an international craftivist movement called The Pussyhat Project.
Craft for Good with Halos of Hope
Your friends and family have enough hats by now. Make your next one for Halos of Hope, an organization that puts handmade hats on the heads of cancer patients.
Buy Lily’s Lovebirds and Send a Girl to School
This fifth grader wants you to help send a girl to school. She launched a charitable crafty business to help young girls get the educations they deserve.
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?
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.
Raubdruckerin Prints T-Shirts from Manhole Covers
They also print tote bags from utility grates, and gym bags from concrete!
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.
How to Make a Hanging Mason Bee House
Help a bee out, why don’t you, by building your very own mason bee house?
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!
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.
A Review of Homeward Bound: Does Domesticity Kill Political Activism?
Are there still sweatshops because the people who should be forcing companies to change are instead spending their time hitting the thrift stores, sewing their kids clothes using organic cotton, and buying boutique-style outfits off of etsy?