About this Event
Crafts magazine invites you to the first in a series of three online mindful making workshops to help you relax, unwind and enjoy the meditative power of working with your hands. It marks the launch of our Mind & Body issue (May/June 2021), which explores how the enrapturing act of making can boost your wellbeing. It also kicks off Hey Craft!, the Crafts Council’s nationwide festival of craft participation.
In this 90 minute workshop, Claire Wellesley-Smith will explore the connections between stitching and wellbeing, and will introduce ideas for a daily textile practice. Claire’s ‘stitch journal’, an (almost) daily practice since 2013, will be the inspiration for this session.
You will need:
Essential:
- A piece of plain, neutral coloured, medium-weight fabric (cotton or linen is ideal) of approx. 20cm square.
- A needle
- Threads. Ordinary sewing thread is fine, other embroidery threads if you have them, in a variety of colours though just one would do.
- Something to mark your base fabric: a pencil, friction pen or embroidery marking pen
Optional:
- Scraps of fabric that hold meaning for you
This Zoom event will feature automatic live closed-captioning