- Craft can be very therapeutic, there's something refreshing about making things and being proud of your creations, which can be very rewarding. It's almost a culture, an international language spoken by the creative minded.
- The actual action of weaving or folding can be very relaxing and helps to settle your mind while concentrating on the one thing. It can help to relieve the stresses of everyday life.
Fabric
- Crafting with fabric leads to lovely creations often suitable for decoration and clothing, from tie dyed t-shirts to pillowcase and stuffed toys to bunting. Beautiful art can be created through stitching
- Fabric can be a very versatile material to work with and outcomes are often lovely(?)
Upcycling
- Crafters are constantly on the look out for materials, eyes scanning the floor for strange found objects and ratching through charity shops and second hand stores.
- Never throwing anything away, you WILL have a use for it at somepoint, despite what others may think!
- Seeing what others may think to be rubbish and bursting with idea's for what you could turn something into or not quite knowing, but definitely knowing that you will need it at some point, for the next re-vamp project you have in store.
Books Re-Imagined
- "Books are more than pages, board, glue and thread - they are artifacts of the human spirit and hand"
- The action of folding can put you into a meditative state of mind.
- The action of folding encourages a meditative state of mind.
- Giving your favourite books a new lease of life.
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