Square from Knit A River
Today, via Bloggreen, I found out about the I Knit “Knit A River” campaign. This UK-based crafting activism project:
… is a campaign with WaterAid. The campaign is designed to raise awareness of WaterAid and their vision – a world where everyone has access to safe water and effective sanitation.
Instead of a more traditional petition I Knit is proud to be making a spectacle! Our ‘knitition’ will force world leaders to sit up and listen. The river will travel to future WaterAid campaigning events and carry the message. Our demands are simple – let the water flow!
It looks like this particular campaign is over, or at least they’re not accepting more knit contributions. I can’t knit anyway, but I would love to see a similar campaign in crochet (which is spectacularly suited to square forms!)
I don’t know what it is about knitters, but they are crazy cool ladies. A whole bunch of them organized themselves as the “Knitting Bloggers for Heifer” and raised a boatload of money to donate to the charity Heifer International. They made up a special logo for themselves, posted frequent updates to their website, the works.
Eric
http://waterwordsthatwork.com
Eric: You know, crafters in general are cool people. I know from my personal experience, we make stuff for the people we know and love and usually it is appreciated. But you can only make so many things for people in your own life before you realize there are a lot of people out there in the world who have never had someone make something for them with their own two hands. There is little in this world that is more gratifying than giving freely of our own creativity.