Olek: Loop After Loop, Hour After Hour
What one artist’s all-consuming crochet practice reveals about the line between regulation and obsession, and why that line matters for every fiber maker.
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The Bilateral Rhythm: What Repetitive Stitch Work Does to the Nervous System
How to read your nervous system before you begin, adjust your pace as the session moves, and build a weekly practice that actually does what you need it to do.
Billie Zangewa: One Stitch at a Time
How a silk fabric from a grandmother's trunk became the practice of a lifetime.
Stitching Your Own Story: How to Use Fiber Arts to Witness Your Daily Life
A single stitched piece is a moment held. A body of pieces made this way becomes something more: a record of a life that would otherwise be invisible, even to yourself.
Can I Engage in Mindful Slow Stitching with Machine Sewing?
Slow stitching is an approach to sewing that prioritizes process over perfection, mindfulness over speed, and creativity over rigid rules.
Rosie Lee Tompkins: A Retrospective at BAMPFA (republished)
On the Bay Area quilter whose practice of making as prayer produced one of the most significant bodies of work in American art.
The Meditation You Are Already Doing: Fiber Arts as Spiritual Practice
This is the physiology of what quilters, embroiderers, and weavers have known in their hands for a very long time. The body catches up with the tradition.
Using Crochet During Difficult Times: 10 Exercises in a 27 Page PDF
And a whole bunch of other creative offers about the positive power of crochet!
Reminder: Power of Positive Crochet Summit (Online, Free) Is Happening Now
Today and through the weekend people are talking about harnessing the benefits of the craft of crochet
What Frogging Taught Me About Fear: On Ripping Out Stitches with Intention
Fear tends to tell us that undoing is catastrophic, that if a thing unravels we won’t be able to recover it. The Rip It Practice is a small and very immediate argument against that story.