I subscribe to the Etsy Teams email, which I recieve weekly. In it today I found a link to a fab article about the healing power of crafts, and in particular crochet. It's a great post - I urge you to read it!!
You can find it on this blog :)
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I loved the article!
ReplyDeleteI really wish I had more time to crochet!
School and numerous after school activities currently keep me far too busy!
I've also hit quite a block... I cannot find any good crochet videos to learn from, they all teach how to make amis but not how to do the stiches. I basically know how to chain, single crochet, and increase....
If you had suggestions from videos you used that would be wonderful! But no need to waste time digging around if you don't remember any. =]
<3 Lauren
Hi, I loved the article and I will share it in my blog too, for Spanish readers to know about it, too!
ReplyDeleteThanks!
An excellent article. A real shame that this seems to have been 'forgotten' - when I started nurse training 20 something years ago, we had art therapists etc who did arts and crafts with patients, those with physical as well as psychological illness. Nowadays tho, it seems to be just medication medication medication :-(
ReplyDeleteVicky
hi thanks for posting that I have been joking that i am de-stressing when i crochet and its great to know it really works.
ReplyDeleteThanks all!
ReplyDeleteLauren - Nexstitch is a great website - it has videos on all the stitches and ones about working in the round and stuff too http://www.nexstitch.com/v_crochet_videos.html
Also tjw1963 on Youtube has some great videos - for everything from basic stitches in amigurumi to videos that talk through whole projects http://www.youtube.com/show?p=Nf83vF1w3bU&s=1
And this is the video I learnt from :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hKBeu2BlhU
Hope that helps abit!! Keep at it - it gets easier, I promise! :)