Stories thread through our lives. They touch, connect, and hold us as we entangle yarns with needles and hooks. As I look back on decades of gathering, collaborating, and making, I’m remembering all the brave and thoughtful craftivists who’ve shared stories.

Craftivism is the heartbeat of the (r)EVOLution inspiring us to shed the “r” of rupture and stitch the “r” of reparation in an EVOLution.
“love is an action, never simply a feeling,” – bell hooks

Yarn graffiti transformed the courtyard into a vibrantly whimsical public space. Spring had sprung inviting tree-huggers to pause and notice the majestic beauty of trees. Each crochet stitch in the tree wraps reminded us to stop…

How do we celebrate our resilient breasts – from puberty to pregnancy, motherhood, and menopause – without turning an art gallery into a risqué nudist colony? An unordinary craftivism exhibition in the fibre yarns of crochet…

Blossoms Not Bullets is a craftivist’s love letter to humanity in response to weaponised games people play. It is a plea for peace during wartime. Without a backstory, a facade is simply prettiness. A deeper dimension plays hide-and-seek embodying yarns that are tellers of us all at this stitch in time.

My tagger name is Curious Sleuth, and my unsolicited guerrilla street art is not vandalism but craftivism. In this story, statues tell a tale of yarn graffiti embodied with a subversive message.

Testament to its resilience, the life story of an inner-city park embodies birth, growth, loss, endurance, transformation, and hope. In 1924, Johannesburg was gifted 16 hectares by the Witwatersrand mines.

A retrospective overview of the Story Scarves project threads yarns from the ground up, framed by transformative arts practices and compassionate activism. I was founder and creative inspirer of a craftivism project for vulnerable teen girls in a marginalised community in Soweto, South Africa, from 2009 to 2017.

The stage is set four years after a protest banner, Stop Greenwashing, was crocheted in South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the midst of loadshedding, scheduled power outages and electricity scarcity…