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TOMORROW #woolliesfortassie

By The Hive Queen | Published: May 24, 2013

ONE MORE SLEEP

For those of you who missed my loverly chat with Penny of 936ABChobart

Here it is:

Woollies for Tassie Radio Interview 936ABCHobart

And if you have not purchased a Mercury today! DO – and check out page 27!

Thanks Alice & Nikki from The Mercury

WootWoot!

Our Perpetual Craft Cover Girl Calendars are READY

So exciting!

This is our way of saying THANK YOU

Images of sooooooo many squares + blankets & lists of the many many many contributors

Such a truly awesome effort everyone

SPECIAL THANKS to Megan Davidson for her super duper inspiration <3

You can purchase one HERE

They are $20.00 – $2.00 goes to the Red Cross

Postage is a flat rate of $5.00 – so go ahead and ORDER 10!!!!

This money raised will cover the costs of this Woollies for Tassie 5month long Event!

So many volunteers on so many levels – Thank You

Ahhhhhhh, wonder full

Here are the deets again: INVITE

Please pass it along – ALL are welcome

Tea, Cake, Raffles, Silent Auction + + +

See you tomorrow

Much Crafty Love to you all

Kristan

xxxx

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the BIG blog

By The Hive Queen | Published: February 15, 2013

HELLO ALL!

Phew . . . ! How is everyone going out there? FULL of crafty loveliness?

I sure am

SO much love flowing in from all over the country side, far and wide

and so many helpful hands ’stitching together’

for the victims of the Tassie Fires

I honour you all and express my deep gratitude to each and every one of you who has spread and shared the L O V E

- local business’

- bloggers

- facebookers

- instagrammers

and to the

- crafters; both in tassie and all over the globe

THANK YOU

500 squares and counting . . . .awesome, truly

MORE DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

Dates for ‘Stitching Together’ #woolliesfortassie here . . .

Quillows for Kids EVENT happening with the lovely Emma:

more details here . . .

Grandmothers Flower Garden EVENT happening with Dear Catherine:

more details here . . .

AND

Chooks and Chicks EVENT info with Karin here . . .

SO much sharing of the Craft Love around

x o x

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LAUNCH: Hand Made Home #handmadehome

By The Hive Queen | Published: January 30, 2013

This journey of community crafting is dear to my heart

AND

Dear to so many of you too! Such an awesome experience has come from such devastation

The Human Spirit, eh!

NEXT UP

In the continuum which began as #woolliesfortassie thanks to the inspiration of Megan Davidson of Kurunda

#quillowsforkids, a further inspiration from The lovely Megan Iemma

& NOW the LANUCH of HAND MADE HOME

The gorgeous Catherine Silcock messaged me if I had thought about how to get our hand made loveliness to the folks effected by the #tassiebushfires & how ’bout we offer other hand made home craft goodness to fill the newly developing houses with HOME

Catherine had a GREAT idea & HERE it is:

Makers, it’s your turn! Welcome

Here at Hand Made Home we invite all makers who wish to support people affected by the recent Tasmanian bush fires.

We’ve all seen pictures of inconceivable destruction and heard the news that many people have lost absolutely everything. Of course ‘everything’ means houses, cars, whitegoods…and ‘everything’ includes the personal, the beautiful and the treasured.

With these very personal losses in mind, we are calling for toys/ home items that are new, special, one-off and hand made with love and care. In time, we want to FILL a space with hand made wonder so that these same people who have lost so much may CHOOSE something special to keep.

Toymakers, knitters, crafters, workers of wood and metal, quilters, weavers, sculptors, smiths of any nature, makers of all kinds, if YOU would like to contribute, if this is your way of caring, we’d like to hear from you.

Please contact us if you want to make a gift for a child to cherish or a gift to help make a new house a home… a handmade gift that really means something.

Love,
Catherine

Find Us on Facebook here . . .

in Collaboration with
The Craft Hive

#handmadehome #woolliesfortassie #quillowsforkids

queen@thecrafthive.com

FIRST EVENT SCHEDULED FOR THURSDAY 7TH FEBRUARY 11-2PM

@The Craft Hive

147 Liverpool Street

upstairs

Hobart

bring along your crafting, or support us in stitching together the heart made squares into blankets of loveliness

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UPDATE #woolliesfortassie

By The Hive Queen | Published: January 25, 2013

In just over 2 weeks – 16 days, I have been ASTOUNDED by the support for #woolliesfortassie

From that original message from Megan, we have seen a wealth of community connect and craft together for the victims of our Tassie Bush Fires

Crafting squares for #woolliesfortassie from far North Queensland, and all states in between; South Australia, NSW, VIC to Texas & Seattle, USA, O’ahu & Maui in Hawaii, Exeter, Devon, UK, Holland, New Zealand, and HOME again, to crafty wonderfulness in Tassie

Twitter has become my favourite place just before sleep to see the tally of squares happening, last count, one follower had crocheted 236 squares!!!!

Up late at night together, across the miles, sharing images on Instagram #woolliesfortassie, creating crafting connection, makes a girls heart smile

Closing my eyes each night and saying THANK YOU, touched deeply by the crafty matrix which has become #woolliesfortassie

GRATITUDE

Blogs:

Nicole Kane

coledabbles.blogspot.com

Italia Franson

tangledyarnsnfabrics.wordpress.com

Kahulani

karensdaughter.tumblr.com

Emma

howtocrochetaheart.blogspot.com.au

Shelley

spincushions.com

Casey

campfirecraft.blogspot.com

Hollie-b Lunation

lunation.com.au

Megan

silverthreadofhappiness.blogspot.com.au

Becstar

genyknittingnanna.blogspot.com.au

BigHomeBird

thriftstreetlife.blogspot.co.uk

Jenni

baamekniits.com

On Instagram:

jacoraknits

spincushions

emma_crochets

baamekniits

thebowerbirdproject

katknits

becstarb

misscoleyann

mrsdztb

threadsofhappiness

bighomebird

valeread

hollie_b_lunation

alimacmac

tangledyarnsnfabrics

casey_campfirecraft

photostyles

mummabear1234

and to the 220 of you on Facebook!!!!

THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY CRAFTY HEART

Doesn’t that make your heart smile? All of these crafters, crafting for #woolliesfortassie somewhere, sometime, someone listed here, or thanked previously (or not listed yet) or quietly on the couch with their cat on their lap, has been thinking of the victims of the #tassiebushfires and putting thought to craft, has loved up a crafted square

TOUCHING

Plenty of time to get involved, a whole month more of time . . . get connected and see how wonderful our world can be

and again a special mention to you Megan – look what happened! you visioned it up, put it out there and together with all of us, made it happen! awesome you are xox

Love to All

Kristan

queen@thecrafthive.com

(squares by: image one: Shelley, image two: Liz, image three: Lyndal, image four: Claire)

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More Thanks + Be Inspired + Getting Crafty #woolliesfortassie

By The Hive Queen | Published: January 14, 2013

HUGE thanks to all of you

ALL the world over

Thank You

(pretty crochet circles turned into squares by very clever Claire Chell)

To Shelley of Spincushions

“My name is Shelley, but I am known as the “pincushion lady”. I make felt pincushions. I hand sew them all and I love doing it. I make other things too, but mostly pincushions.

I’m also a mother, wife & worker. I live in South West Victoria, Australia. I am very lucky!”

Thank you, we are lucky to have you on board!

and to Cook, Craft, Cope , Jellybeans Mama! much appreciate your blogging

To Penny of The Stash Cupboard in Tassie (just down the stairs from The Craft Hive!), Thank YOU, you can check out their latest Newsletter Here . . .

AND

to The Haven THANK YOU and if you are in the Hobart area or round’a’bout, head to the event they have created

Needles & Hook Circle

AND to so so so many of you on Facebook who have given of yourself, your yarn, your time and love to #woolliesfortassie

Let’s keep the ‘yarn’ rolling

Love to you all

xox

The Call to Craft: Community Crafting at it’s BEST!

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#woolliesfortassie + Gratitude + Thanxxxx + BONUS MoMA

By The Hive Queen | Published: January 11, 2013

Tears have welled and spilled over today

So many thank you’s to share

To the BLOGGERS:

Emma of How to Crochet A Heart

Follow her here on Instagram: emma_crochets

& Twitter: @Emma_crochets + on Facebook here . . .

To Sophie of Her Library Adventures

Follow her here on Instagram: herlibaryadventures

& Twitter: @sophieisobel

+ on Facebook here . . .

OUR TWITTER’ers

Alicia Gardiner

@AliciaGardiner

Among other things, Nurse ‘Kim Akerholt’ in Ch10’s OFFSPRING.

ms. kylie gusset

@msgusset

yarntrepreneur thoughtful yarn & fibre offerings for knit, crochet, spinning & crafters. indie dyer. fledgling spinner. machine knitter.

melbourne, australia · http://about.me/kyliegusset

Hotscones

@Hotscones

I design and hand knit beanies and mittens that aim to make you smile

http://www.etsy.com/shop/HotScones

+ peppermint magazine

@PeppermintMag

Peppermint: style, sustainability, substance. Australia’s first and only eco and ethical fashion magazine.

Brisbane · http://www.peppermintmag.com

SEW MUCH SUPPORT

See how you can get involved here . . .

Fun & Community at it’s Very Very BEST

So proud & touched by the GLOBAL Crafting Community that we are all apart of and make happen!

CraftAWEsome’ness

To the LOCALS:

Karin of Lyrebird Steiner Products

Christine of The Haven

Penny of The Stash Cupboard

We are soooooo fortunate on our Island Home

We love each other, we really do

BONUS!

if you are in Hobart tomorrow and can make it to MoMA

check out Cultural Lullaby

Thanks so much to Emmy Bostock for coming up those stairs all those moons ago . . .

To Kate Tenni for meeting, greeting and networking with Emmy

To Phoenix for loving our space

To Jane Bange for continuing, with her independent financial backing, this inspiration

and to community artist Jackie McDonald for putting out the vision, dreaming into it and for taking it up, making it happen in all the splendour that has manifest in the truest of Jack’s form . . . she does good work, really she does, bless xox

Truly The Craft Hive is a wondrous creature, I give great thanks to her and all that she has woven

Love to you all

With deepest Gratitude

Kristan

xox

queen@thecrafthive.com

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Woollies For Tassie: Let’s get Crafting!

By The Hive Queen | Published: January 9, 2013

Afternoon Craft Hivers

The Craft Hive had a message from the lovely Megan Davidson of Kurunda asking if we would be interested in gathering together, acting as the HUB for knitted or crocheted squares for the victims of the Tassie Bush Fires and assembling these crafted with love squares into blankets

“To me I could send some money but with yarn I can send love and comfort . . .I’m sure no one would mind if people add any messages onto tags maybe where in the country or world it is from, what inspired that piece or even thoughts of encouragement” MD

YES of course we would love to support this heart felt initiative

So, let’ get started . . .

I have started an event on Facebook here . . .

Please invite your communities along

If you are a Ravelry user, Megan has begun an instagram-along-ers group here . . .

and for posting on instagram, twitter, anywhere you find yourself posting, you can use the hashtag:

#woolliesfortassie

The Craft Hive will act as a hive to collect these hearty squares and we will create further events in February to craft the blankets together

GETTING STARTED

8 inch squares

Crochet or Knit squares welcome

Please attach a message if you like

& perhaps sew a tag sharing where your square has come from

Drop in to our large ORANGE MAIL BOX in the lobby of The Craft Hive (147 Liverpool Street, Hobart)

Mail to us at:

The Craft Hive

PO Box 147

Snug TAS 7054

Please email me

queen@thecrafthive.com

if I can assist, answer questions, queries . . .

SUPER FANTASTIC

and super love and thanks to Megan

You are an inspiration

AND a final message from my Noah, who wanted to ‘do’ something from his heart . . .

his message to all of you out there on our Island Home affected by the Bush Fires

xox

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Crafter’s Column: Knitting Nipples

By The Hive Queen | Published: January 2, 2013

YAY! Exciting Morning

First email of the day from Squat Birth Journal

My contribution to the Crafter’s Column up in lights today!

Check out, “Knitting Nipples”

Purchase a print copy or download your free copy here . . .

Great work this Journal is doing!

Thanks all

and Enjoy

xox

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Another Year of Craft Hive Hiving: 2012: The Year in Review

By The Hive Queen | Published: December 19, 2012

I LOVE doing this review each year . . .

Here I am, and here I go!

Such gratitude I feel for all that The Craft Hive has brought about

Both to my life personally and to the community touched by it’s honey crafty goodness!

January was fairly well all about ZOMBIES! plus preparing our tail for MoMA @ MONA

February we clocked 15,000 hits on our site!

Open Craft Night kicked off and Crochet Saturday’s began

March I crafted at the Seven Sisters Festival in Melbourne with the Red Tent

and Autumn brought cupcakes, cinnamon, cumin, cider, connecting and more crafting at MoMA – a great trip for my boy, Caedence who I delightfully watched teach children how to finger knit!

April The Craft Hive BLOG turned 2!

I facilitated my first, The First Seven Years Biographical/Crafting Workshop, which was FAB!

May I told you all about The Craft Hive

June was an Ode to my First Born, crafty one Caedence plus

and interview profile piece by Claire Gaynor of UTAS

July, Laura (sweet, honey lass) creator of Betty Mag interviewed me for her inaugural mag – trés coolness!

We work with the Hobart Women’s Shelter, a treasured treat!

August, Ode to my second born, Noah Tobias

The Crafting Womb does her thing at The Home Birth Conference knitting squares for Hamlin Fistula

Visiting Artist, Beck Meyers visits offering her Soul Doll Workshop and in

September her Basket Making Workshop

Jackie McDonald has her launch of the Lullaby Blankets – a special, sacred evening of beauty and heart

October The Crafting Womb went on tour! Four gigs

The Red Tent Dreaming Tour (Brisbane, Melbourne & Sydney)

and

The Goddess Conference

plus I met Dr Catherine Hamlin at a Breakfast in Brisbane, special moment!

Super Lovely Work: Sacred Crafting

November back on the Island

and the return to self, crafting my self home after a time of grief

and turning to Christmas Crafting

WOW!

And here we are in December, 24,732 hits on site!, approaching the Summer Solstice

Ready for Family Holy Day times

And feeling GRATITUDE

for all the connections made

for the work of heart and hand

for the love of craft

Much Love and Thanks to all of you

Out there, here and residing in my heart

Until Next Year

2013

Be Well, Happy and Crafty!

xox

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The Call to Craft

By The Hive Queen | Published: November 19, 2012

We are crafting, crafting, crafting at home

Caedence is cross stitching tree decorations for his Grannie & Oma

and Noah helped me craft a new Zombie to add to our family!

I am still trying my hand at different knitted squares: fencing, horizontally ridged, planting seeds + slip sliding away!

and I am still working on my ‘Ode to My Nan’, which is beautiful to work with in the afternoon light

plus I am at the colouring in stage of Noah’s giraffe – good for night time (early morning) crafting!

So much so that really at this moment in time, it is really all I want to be doing

Which is a perfect thing

and perhaps a balance for all the ‘out’ time I have had over these past months

I feel I am requiring stillness to stitch and find myself looking at the clock at 1am, doing just a few more stitches and then before a moment seems to pass, 2am appears!

Winding down the year, winding down myself

Making for Christmas and letting go

I can feel the calling for more and more offline time as family time approaches

But before, Craft Hivers lets get together in December . .

stay tuned for date and time before we all go our own ways for the holidays . . .

Love from me who is quietly heading home to an afternoon at AppleTree Cottage, cups of tea and more stitch, stitch, stitching xxx (and perhaps some dark chocolate sampling!)

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