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Crafters support The Color Orange! As a part of the campaign, crafters (knitters, quilters, crocheters, sewers, jewelry makers, paper crafters and
what-have-you) will handcraft items for people to wear at the Olympic Games.
It is up to the individual knitter or crocheter to decide on what to make,
but clothing, jewelry, bags, and hair accessories are obvious items.
Crafters contribute in a creative way to the Color Orange, and
visitors/athletes will get a nice, handmade item for FREE, and make a
statement by wearing it. Contacts between crafters and receivers of orange wearables are made through
use of Flickr, a website for free publishing of photographs. Crafters will
make a picture of their crafted item and receivers can contact the crafter
directly by commenting on their picture or sending a mail message through
Flickr. Receivers are asked to make a picture of them wearing the item,
preferably at the OG, and posting the picture on flickr too. There is a
Flickr special interest group for this purpose, you find it here:
http://flickr.com/groups/755098@N22/pool/
The pictures posted to the group are public - anyone can see them. The group will function as a galery for the crafted items as well as a
galery of people wearing handcrafted, orange items at the Olympics or
related events, thereby also contributing to raising awareness.The Flickr
medium also provides for a discussion forum about the craft part of the
campaign. Knitters, spinners and crocheters that are members of Ravelry can join the
special interest group there, follow this link:
http://www.ravelry.com/groups/color-orange---human-rights-and-the-olympic-ga
mes
Come on, get crafty!
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