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Our (Pretty) New Festival Page!!

January 23, 2018 thecraftsessions
Photo from Natalie Miller - who is teaching Weaving Geometric Shapes at Soul Craft and talking about her new book!

Photo from Natalie Miller - who is teaching Weaving Geometric Shapes at Soul Craft and talking about her new book!

Soul Craft is about the good stuff - about craft and connection - and especially about conversations. And so we've put together a new Festival Program - In Detail page to really showcase the depth and breath of the talks and demonstrations on offer as part of our Festival Day Pass.

This program is about all the things that are important to us - about our connection with ourselves, our impact on the earth, about learning and sharing about how we make and why.  It's about how hand making affects our well-being. But it's also practical - about technique, about how to get started with a new-to-us craft, about how other people make time and space in their lives to make.

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It's about having the conversations we have been having on this blog over the last few years in real life. The Festival Program is about how craft fills us up and how craft makes us feel!

If you missed out on the masterclass you wanted to do - as many of them have sold out already - then never fear as many of our teachers are also sharing their knowledge, wisdom and joy as part of our Festival Program. Come and meet Elizabeth Barnett, Andrea Mowry, Natalie Miller, Jen Beeman, Anna Farago and Melissa Wastney in real life.... you will love them.

We really hope you love the program - and that there is so much depth and breadth there that you will be struggling to figure out how to fit it all in :)!

You can buy tickets here.

Felicia x

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Welcome! I'm Felicia - creator of The Craft Sessions and Soul Craft.

This blog is about celebrating the connection between hand-making and our well-being. These posts aim to foster a love of hand-making and discuss the ways traditional domestic handcrafts have meaning and context in our everyday lives.

I love the contributions you make to this space via your comments and learn so much from each and every one. x

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The Year Of The Scrap - One of my favourite uses for a couple of balls of dk/sport weight yarn is a baby version of #grannysfavourite by @tikkiknits. I’ve made this little sweater so many times - because the result is something really special and it’s such a fun little knit. ✨ This is the 3rd size which is a 3-6month size and I’m using one 200m stray ball I had. The reason this is such a good scrap knit is that it is top down and seamless, and looks super sweet sleeveless if I run out of yarn. ✨ How to make the most of your scraps? I knit the yoke, then the body before using my kitchen scales to weigh what yarn I have left for the sleeves. I then divide it into two balls based on weight and knit till I run out of yarn. When I get to the end of the first sleeve, I leave it on the needles without casting off, and knit my second sleeve to make sure I haven’t weighed it wrong. I cast off when I have two sleeves the same length. ✨You can knit this pattern with as little as a ball and a half. ✨ Even if you don’t have babies in your life this is a wonderful charity knit for organisations like @knitonegiveone, especially if your scraps are machine washable. ✨#theyearofthescrap
On the blog today: How Artefacts (Craftefacts) Elevate Craft (and our lives). ✨This is one of those posts that I’ve been pondering for an age. About the super power that craft has to elevate our lives by providing us with a visible representation, an artefact, of the process. How these “craftefacts” capture our history, our feelings, our capacity and our values, at a given point in time. Living among them adds a richness and depth to our lives that is incredibly special and life elevating. ✨ The experience of living with the things we have made doesn’t have a word, and so I created one - craftefact! A little silly and clunky perhaps but the only way we can talk about ideas is if we have language. I’d love you to read the post and let me know if you can come up with something less silly😊. And I’d love to hear how living among the things you have made affects you. ✨This photo is of my biggest two wrapped up in their quilts on a lazy school holiday morning. ✨#craftefacts #craftasanelevatedlife
This Sunday just gone was my beautiful friend @faragoanna ‘s  exhibition opening of her #daddyasbirds exhibition. I know many of you have been following along as Anna has created these paintings over the last year, since the sudden passing of her husband Adrian. The opening was a chance for us to come together to celebrate his life but also to celebrate this incredible project Anna undertook in part to sit with her grief. What she did was incredible, and if you’d like to see it the exhibition is on at Monsalvat until March 3rd, so please head on out there. I was taking photos in the day with my real camera so I stole the first photo from my lovely friend @_jay_emm and the second from my lovely friend @twinklettes. X
I’ve been a little quiet in this space because of some life stuff (and I’ve been in this stunning place), but I’m still checking in when I can, still listening and still learning alongside so many of you. I’ve been pondering the incredibly simple but profound idea of when you know better, do better. What’s become clear to me is that doing better is a ongoing process, not act. So many resources have been shared but I wanted to highlight a couple that I’ve found incredibly helpful recently... Firstly everything from @wherechangestarted. In particular there have been some super clarifying posts over the last few days about what our responsibilities are, about the important distinction between anti-racism work and activism and what “doing enough” looks like. Please also watch the saved stories on @astitchtowear ‘s feed if you haven’t seen them. And head to @sophiatron and @tikkiknits and @yumichild ‘s feeds to bear witness to racism in australia today, and to hear their wisdom. I’m away from this space again this weekend so I’m turning off comments as I can’t check in. Hope your weekend includes a little craft! X
The Year Of The Scrap - One of my favourite uses for a couple of balls of dk/sport weight yarn is a baby version of #grannysfavourite by @tikkiknits. I’ve made this little sweater so many times - because the result is something really special and it’s such a fun little knit. ✨ This is the 3rd size which is a 3-6month size and I’m using one 200m stray ball I had. The reason this is such a good scrap knit is that it is top down and seamless, and looks super sweet sleeveless if I run out of yarn. ✨ How to make the most of your scraps? I knit the yoke, then the body before using my kitchen scales to weigh what yarn I have left for the sleeves. I then divide it into two balls based on weight and knit till I run out of yarn. When I get to the end of the first sleeve, I leave it on the needles without casting off, and knit my second sleeve to make sure I haven’t weighed it wrong. I cast off when I have two sleeves the same length. ✨You can knit this pattern with as little as a ball and a half. ✨ Even if you don’t have babies in your life this is a wonderful charity knit for organisations like @knitonegiveone, especially if your scraps are machine washable. ✨#theyearofthescrap On the blog today: How Artefacts (Craftefacts) Elevate Craft (and our lives). ✨This is one of those posts that I’ve been pondering for an age. About the super power that craft has to elevate our lives by providing us with a visible representation, an artefact, of the process. How these “craftefacts” capture our history, our feelings, our capacity and our values, at a given point in time. Living among them adds a richness and depth to our lives that is incredibly special and life elevating. ✨ The experience of living with the things we have made doesn’t have a word, and so I created one - craftefact! A little silly and clunky perhaps but the only way we can talk about ideas is if we have language. I’d love you to read the post and let me know if you can come up with something less silly😊. And I’d love to hear how living among the things you have made affects you. ✨This photo is of my biggest two wrapped up in their quilts on a lazy school holiday morning. ✨#craftefacts #craftasanelevatedlife This Sunday just gone was my beautiful friend @faragoanna ‘s  exhibition opening of her #daddyasbirds exhibition. I know many of you have been following along as Anna has created these paintings over the last year, since the sudden passing of her husband Adrian. The opening was a chance for us to come together to celebrate his life but also to celebrate this incredible project Anna undertook in part to sit with her grief. What she did was incredible, and if you’d like to see it the exhibition is on at Monsalvat until March 3rd, so please head on out there. I was taking photos in the day with my real camera so I stole the first photo from my lovely friend @_jay_emm and the second from my lovely friend @twinklettes. X I’ve been a little quiet in this space because of some life stuff (and I’ve been in this stunning place), but I’m still checking in when I can, still listening and still learning alongside so many of you. I’ve been pondering the incredibly simple but profound idea of when you know better, do better. What’s become clear to me is that doing better is a ongoing process, not act. So many resources have been shared but I wanted to highlight a couple that I’ve found incredibly helpful recently... Firstly everything from @wherechangestarted. In particular there have been some super clarifying posts over the last few days about what our responsibilities are, about the important distinction between anti-racism work and activism and what “doing enough” looks like. Please also watch the saved stories on @astitchtowear ‘s feed if you haven’t seen them. And head to @sophiatron and @tikkiknits and @yumichild ‘s feeds to bear witness to racism in australia today, and to hear their wisdom. I’m away from this space again this weekend so I’m turning off comments as I can’t check in. Hope your weekend includes a little craft! X
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How Artefacts - Craftefacts - Elevate Craft
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