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Knitting for Good!

By Jessica | Published: May 22, 2009
When I first learned about Knitting for Good! (via Croq, if I recall correctly), I suspected that author Betsy Greer’s book would resonate with my own growing interest in craft’s role in relationship-building, feminism, activism, and meditation. And I’m so glad to have read it, because her book succeeds in covering much more than [...]
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Crafting to Defy Expectations.

By Jessica | Published: April 10, 2008
Worldchanging offers greener ways to imagine a future changed world. (Image from the NYPL Digital Gallery.) The latest issue of ReadyMade arrived in the mail last week, and I was happy to find within it an interview with Alex Steffen, one of the forces behind Worldchanging, an organization committed to promoting and supporting efforts to build [...]
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Crocheting the Coral Reef.

By Jessica | Published: March 14, 2008
This scene would take mountains of wool to recreate. (Image from NYPL Digital Gallery.) I have lately been admiring the crocheted coral and other sea creatures designed by jpolka. But I did not know of the application of crochet to the hard science of the sea until I read about hyperbolic crochet, a means of [...]
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