Articles tagged with 'crafting'

Knitting with jewellery wire
After breaking a vertebra in a horse riding accident last August, I was unable to continue my ceramic work for a few months as I could not lift the heavy bags of clay or bend to load up the kiln. As I surfed the net out of sheer boredom I discovered the many wonderful and colourful bead websites and that was that. I started buying and it soon became an addiction. I found it easy to combin...read more

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Hobbies which help lower blood pressure and stress
Research has shown that certain hobbies and crafts help reduce stress and lower blood pressure. It is thought that the repetitive actions involved in certain activities like knitting and crochet, help the mind “switch off” and this has a distinct calming effect.In recent years knitting as a hobby has become hugely popular and has been taken up by various celebrities as the...read more

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Understanding Crochet Terms
Although there is some speculation that that the art of crochet evolved from traditional practices in other places, there is no evidence of it being performed before its popularity in Europe during the 1800s.  The word "crochet" is derived from the French word , meaning hook.  At one time all the terms were the same, if slightly different to the way we are accustomed to seei...read more

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Buying Hand Crafted Wood Turning - How to identify quality wood turned products
What should you be looking for when buying hand crafted wood turning? Design and style is obviously very much a personal thing and I cannot really advise on it. Certain things do stand out though and I will try and point these out. With today´s modern equipment you should be wary of any wood turning that has screw holes in the bottom as this is something that is really unnecessa...read more

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How to scrapbook - a beginner's guide
The art of scrapbooking is the preservation of photographic memories or images in the form of a memory book or handcrafted crafted embellished album. The great thing about scrapbooking is that there are no real definitive rules for creating a scrapbook. ...read more

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