Anarchistelfliege 2

Recently I said I like Graffiti. Tonight I'm reading some blogs, and after I wished to find out what Craftivism is, I came across Craftivism.com and browsing the archives, I read a post about Graffiti on Craftivism.

On my german blog Wirrlicht pointed me to Banksy and s/he(?) was also mentioned in the post at craftivism!
So I guess this means something. I'll propably never know what but I'm obviously meant to look at more graffiti and what Banksy is all about.
And yeah, I like Banksy! The silhouettes look like those stickers everyone had in "poetry albums" that were passed around in school, these overly cute cutout-like scenes - but they do weird things in the graffiti by Banksy.

Betsy of craftivism calls graffiti a "reappropriation and reclamation of public space" here and that's also what I like about it - claiming space which is normally reserved for brand names, logos and the big money for just one human being with no money!

So there's some more pics from Berlin:

city demon


city goddess


spirits all around.

Betsy has made a graffito by Banksy in cross-stitch - I don't like cross-stitch that much, but I wonder how a redwork graffito would look?

After Wilde/Seadew on fragments in time picked the idea up from Eidechse, I made a collage of colours I like:



I think I like all colours. Every colour is beautiful. You just have to find a combination of colours in which the colour(s) looks great. Even grey concrete looks good with a midnight blue flower.
So I picked some colours, and mixed them up. It's a rather random collection.
I love the blue and dark red. Two saturated dark colours - and they seem to glow in their darkness!

There's one I forgot: Red! bright red, orange red....
This is a picture of me quilting my first quilt the first time, with a thimble I made out of leather and duct tape. I found this thimble to be very comfortable to wear. It's only problem is that after some use, the leather becomes thin and the dull end of the needle pricks you in the finger. Now I use a leather thimble with a small metal plate from clover and it's nearly as comfortable to use.
To start quilting was easier without the metal plate, though - I could control the needle much better, because I could feel it.