In the pursuit of a pass time more fulfilling than doomscrolling, I\u2019m revisiting some of the crafts I learned as a child and have picked up and out down sporadically ever since. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s funny how muscle memory returns on these things. Knitting is a prime example. I learned to knit with my maternal grandmother when I was very young and I made things for my dolls, mostly. I enjoyed learning new stitches: how to cable, some basic lace, but I don\u2019t think I ever finished a sweater or anything. Mostly I was given scraps of yarn, so that\u2019s probably why! But when I picked up knitting in my early thirties, and again, now, ten years later, I\u2019ve found my hands know what they\u2019re doing and it\u2019s a great way to prevent myself from getting distracted by my phone whilst I watch television. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anyway, all this is to say that I am applying my art school conditioning to my creative practice and I\u2019m doing it here. It’ll mark a different direction for this blog and, hopefully, more regular posts: musings on making, on the history of making \u2013 both personal and otherwise \u2013 and thoughts on the current state of these very traditional crafts, their popularity, the industry that has arisen around them. I don’t claim expert knowledge, I speak only from the perspective of a participant and enthusiast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In the pursuit of a pass time more fulfilling than doomscrolling, I\u2019m revisiting some of the crafts I learned as a child and have picked up and out down sporadically ever since. It\u2019s funny how muscle memory returns on these things. Knitting is a prime example. I learned to knit with my maternal grandmother when… Continue reading A little update<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[161],"tags":[165,164,166],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wefloat.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6927"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wefloat.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wefloat.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wefloat.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wefloat.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.wefloat.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6930,"href":"http:\/\/www.wefloat.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6927\/revisions\/6930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wefloat.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wefloat.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wefloat.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}