Craft failure: we've all been there. The 'thing' in your crafty hands is an aberration and nothing like the pretty project you had in your head. When you think about it though is there really anything wrong with what you make? If it's handcrafted and you've put your time and love into it surely it deserves a little adoration, right?
These were precisely the thoughts of crafter Kim Werker when she created something hideous at a craft party one fateful day. It was a release from the bonds of trying to make something pretty, prissy and perfect. She loved that freedom so much she wanted to share and thus Mighty Ugly was born.
Werker encourages you to "Take an hour or two and say SCREW IT to trying to make something pretty. Go out of your way to create something hideous."
It's become something of a eye-squintingly yucky craft movement. You can send your submissions along to the blog, stick your ugly offering on their Flickr group or just hop along to the blog and read all about the ugly of others.
Ugly is the new cool. Love it.
