What is it about cutting up fabric
and sewing it back together again
that is so gratifying?
Why does choosing yarn in beautiful colours
and spending a few hours basically hooking it into tangles
and knots
make the tough realities of life just a bit easier to take?
How can a needle and a few bits of coloured thread
yield small beauties that put the ugliness of the news into
the background for a while?
Craft is the perfect antidote to the horrors of the world
around us.
We crafty folk find happiness in sharing our knowledge
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| One of the workshops I teach |
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| One of the classes I take |
inspiring new friends
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| Teaching a new friend to sew on a rainy afternoon |
enjoying the company of old friends
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| Enjoying decadent treats on Craft Night with Jooles! |
The news has been getting to me lately. It’s all too much
sometimes. I switch off the radio and reach for something to make, something to
take my mind off all the negativity.
Craft therapy. In these tumultuous times, we’re all holding
onto our creative gifts, enriching our family lives with simple makes
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| I've been making snowflakes with linen thread and iridescent thread hooked together... |
And while conflicts spread the globe, so too do our creative
connections
We’re sticking together, we crafty folk, we’re reaching out
across the vastest distances to share the simplest of pleasures in this
complicated world.
Craft therapy.
Don’t you wish a news
report would end not with the weather, but with a Craft Update?
“And in Surrey this evening,
Chrissie Crafts has finally finished her daughter’s quilt! A lovingly made patchwork
in shades of rose and aqua, Chrissie reveals exclusively to us that this will
be Bunny’s Christmas present. Well done, Chrissie.”
Happy crafting!
Chrissie x
P.S. I first wrote about craft therapy a few weeks after starting my blog. You can
read it here.
