Save The World With Crocheted Explosives!

Craft Cartel are inviting all those opposed to the proposed Gunns Bell Bay Pulp Mill and other loggers of native forests to get their knit on and whip up a ton of crocheted explosives. Rise up gentle people! We want to collect lots & lots & lots to let the nation know how many are against the dastardly Mill. When even the knitters get mad, someone's gotta listen.

The project was officially launched at the last Trashbag Rehab event, Bang! Knit! Purl! KaPOW! but we'll be collecting explosives until the end of October.

There is absolutely no reason for us to be logging native bush & forrest in Australia. Each knitted explosive you make will be strung together with those made by other lovely community members until we have grown a magnificent crafed bomb tree to show our strong opposition to this stupidity.

 

Add to our woolen weapon stockpile by sending yours to:

PO Box 1042

Collingwood, Vic 3066

 

 

Check out the tutorials below & get knitting!

And in the meantime think about sending some coin or a note of support to the super crew at The Wilderness Society who are leading many awesome campaigns including one against the proposed Gunns' Pulp Mill.

 

 

1. Basic dynamite stick tute with instructions from Charlie the WonderCat.

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. Dynamite bundles tute from the wonderful Katrina Sweatman

 

 

 

 

 

 

3. For more advanced knit boffins, crochet grenades tute , devised by Katrina Sweatman

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TRASH BAG REHAB!

Radical Hands-On Therapy For Delinquent Crafters

 

 

 

Season '09 is complete! Thanks for all who came along and made the sessions such fun - we'll see you all next year.  In the meantime, stay tuned for pop-up Trashbag events over summer.

 

Trashbag Rehab is monthly DIY Craftivism for anyone who's overdosed on cutesy craft crap.

Each session features a different project, guest artist/therapist and musos.
We provide materials or BYO craft junk & supplies to rehabilitate/swap.

 


Past Projects

 


 

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Celebrating all that is irreverent, kitchy, delightfully offensive & made lovingly by hand.

The Craft Cartel is a posse of radical crafters. Set up in 2007, we organise Trashbag Rehab (hands on therapy for delinquent crafters), a blog, a podcast, Flock 'n' Flogs (impromtu markets), legit markets, craftivism, street crrraft, craft talks, Craft Ins & general ace-ness. Everything is open to everyone & everything is free or cheap - we are not Capitalists, we are Craftivists.

 

 

 

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