The 9th-15th of May 2022 is Mental Health Awareness Week in the UK. For more information, please visit https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/campaigns/mental-health-awareness-week. I’ve wanted to write something about crafts and wellbeing for some time now. Knitting – and other forms of needlework such as crochet and embroidery – have always had a social element in my life, albeit…
Category: My two cents
Opinion pieces and reflections
Are Zips a Lifestyle Choice?
Is it possible to think of zips as a lifestyle choice rather than an essential part of women’s/femme clothing? I think it is. What do you think?
Programmes and Patterns: Or, What Bugs Us About Knitting
“It’s like code!” is a phrase I’ve heard several times over the years when teaching people how to knit and crochet. If the physical execution is muscle memory, then the pattern itself is a programme or choreography. Another choice word, also gifted by new knitters, is “recipe”, which – although etymologically unconnected to the word…
The Shape of Things to Come
The size the person chooses is a starting point, not a box to fit into.
Buying your first sewing machine? Here’s my one piece of advice…
Apropos of Christmas gifting, a friend feeling ready to take the plunge, and a colleague fed up with disposable technology, I bring you this entirely unplanned article about sewing machine advice!
Some thoughts on knitting and accessibility
I had a few thoughts about knitters and knitting following some posts made on IG a few days ago and felt a different perspective could help. I don’t mean any harm by writing this post, and apologise in advance for any upset, but I sincerely want to mention a few important things that could help…