Our yarns are tellers of us

Our Yarns are Tellers of Us is Stacey’s ongoing collection of yarns reflecting on our lived experiences at this stitch in time. Each yarn engages gentle craftivism to thread real-life experiences through fibre handcrafts, and extends its reach through virtual stories within and beyond our circles of care. These nuanced narratives reveal our essence in the present and become retrospective memory keepers offering contemplation for our future. They thread reciprocal bridges inspiring us to authentically know one another. Together, our yarns are tellers of us all. Explore the archive of yarns.

Yarns

Yarn Balm rEVOLution

At this unprecedented stitch in time, humanity’s enlivened fabric is torn at its frayed seams after confronting pandemics of illness and war. Mending the rips requires more than a darning needle to suture fresh wounds on intergenerational scars.

Garden of Yarns

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.

Story Scarves

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.