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#FreeDC - domestic arts ↔️ public message - guerilla knitters - craftivism - 'to understand how the primarily domestic activity of knitting became a preferred method of political activism, we must unspool the 🧶' --Andy Marlow
Amazing people digitized the world's largest community arts project, the AIDS Memorial Quilt! Searchable, or browse for beauty, memory, resonance. Zoom out for a pointilistic magnitude. (I chose a few squares, h/t @marisakabas.bsky.social.)

Silence = Death. #AIDSquilt #quilting

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December 2, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Knitters know. Historians, too.
PLAY THE LONG GAME Flexible redistribution of energy + effort is how you prevent burnout. It's OK to scale up or down the time you invest in activist efforts as circumstances + capacity change --@badasscrossstitch.bsky.social "Let's Move the Needle" activism handbook
December 2, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Thankful for…

🍂 the comforts of soft craft
🍂 socially conscious posters, memes + yarnbombs
🍂 @freedcproject.bsky.social, a caring community active for our rights, and
🍂 daily sightings of this nearby yb sent us by an anon. Encinitas stitcher (up for 3 days + counting!).

HAPPY THANKSGIVING
November 27, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Hi👋🏾, M Street Southwest median: We Are Back

👀 This was 1 of 2 y'bombs made + sent to us 📫 📦 by a faraway person we have not (yet!) met. Love + gratitude to this Encinitas, Calif., knitter!

Will post your 💛❤️🖤creations, too. Mailing address in this pattern: drive.google.com/file/d/15ImI...
November 25, 2025 at 1:39 AM
stash pile — inspired by those colors
November 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
"Billionaires Eat First" says this powerful @unrigoureconomy.bsky.social installation we saw on the nation's front lawn, the National Mall. (See the Washington Monument in the distance?)Their KidsGoHungry campaign tallies the millions SNAP serves in every U.S. state.

Only turkeys would cut it. 🦃
November 18, 2025 at 12:16 AM
How long can this bee-yoo-tee-ful Lincoln Park yarnbomb last? It's a Capitol Hill oasis loved by kids, families and people who like to sit on grass w/coffee + a book, so ofc the Trump admin polices the s**t out of it.

Hope cops + National Guard like the new decor. We sure do.

#yarnbomb #knitsky
November 17, 2025 at 2:34 AM
The Onion is all over this.
@theonion.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:37 PM
🎸Saturday night's all right for ... yarnbombing. This one's in good company!

#yarnbombing #knitsky #FreeDC ❤️🤍💛🖤
November 9, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Dupont Circle, ✋🏼. We love you!

#FreeDC #yarnbombing
November 9, 2025 at 12:56 AM
This reminds us of Shetland knitters, whose lace "wedding ring shawls" Queen Victoria made famous. Using local yarn so delicate that a blanket-sized wrap could be pulled through a lady's ring, their labor was compensated in "truck" goods by middlemen who made bank exporting to luxury markets.
November 9, 2025 at 12:41 AM
'I think fiber arts are particularly political bc so many gender norms are tied to them and they are also pretty harmless. Knit things keep us warm + cozy, right? So it’s been a powerful way for me to share commentary on our political system in an art form that is accessible...'
#knitsky #yarnbomb
November 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
'In 2019 I was commuting home late nights and one deserted house really freaked me out when I walked by, so on a whim I knit a huge, smiling lion with flowers in its mane and sewed it to the house’s fence. So, every night when I walked home, I had protection." www.jessieathome.com/meet-textile...
November 7, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Oh, dear. 😭😹😭 Who's up to knit this lol?

<alt-text highly recommended>
November 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Good morning only to people who voted Democrat or cheered them on — which is now most Americans, heh heh. #FreeDC #yarnbomb #knitsky #craftivism
November 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Hey, DC — ready for your makeover? 💅💇🏾‍♀️🪞

The new look is very #FreeDC yarnbomb. Trying it for size here near Kingman Park: Doesn’t it make us look more JOYFUL and POWERFUL?
November 3, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Out now, in the leafy wilds of Northwest DC, another new yarnbomb, and WE LOVE THIS SO MUCH 💝💝💝.

#FreeDC #yarnbomb #knitsky

Want to knit one and send to us? Mailing address in pattern: bit.ly/FDCyarnbomb
October 29, 2025 at 2:10 AM
It's happppppppennnnning❣️❣️❣️

💃🏾Our pattern's DEBUT in the wild -- seen on Capitol Hill. ❤️💛🖤💛❤️ {Note considerate yarnbomber's attention to not blocking the trap door used to empty the bin.}

🧶You can yarnbomb, too! bit.ly/FDCyarnbomb

#FreeDC #knitting #yarnbomb @freedcproject.bsky.social
October 26, 2025 at 1:43 AM
The people of DC are joyful and powerful, and we deserve the right to KNIT. (Also to crochet.) (Also to govern ourselves.)
Seeing a 📝pattern here? #FreeDC

🧶 To stitch your own, just start or click the link. Put them up yourself or mail to address provided. Post pics here!

bit.ly/FDCyarnbomb
October 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM