SlowCraft Blog
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Artificial intelligence or 'AI', for many of us, is the stuff of science fiction books and movies. For our children and grandchildren, it is a current reality.
Browsing social media I had joined a group called ‘Beginners Knitting’, it’s a large group of people made up of mainly US and UK knitting enthusiasts and is exactly as you would expect. People asking lots of questions about getting started with knitting and showing pictures of mistakes and WIPS they are looking for feedback on.
One member then posted that free patterns were now easy to find as they had asked ‘ChatGPT’ and had got a simple kntting pattern, that to them as a beginner seemed to be working very well...
The Local Yarn: Weaving Community and Craft Together
The Importance of Doing Nothing
The Importance of Being Bored
Ghosts of Christmas Craft
Spending too much time on social media I caught a joke, that the true nature of Christmas was unruly ghosts terrifying your boss into paying you more money.
As one half of a small business, and working a corporate job at the same time, it tickled me. Dickens pervades my view of ‘what Christmas should be’. The Victorian ideal of roaring fires, heaving tables of food, and perfectly decorated trees, with mournful ghosts hovering around as we all have a great time. Oddly, in this dream I am often outside looking in at this ideal Christmas.
What is Sustainable Yarn
The Real Therapeutic Benefits of Knitting
There is unlikely to be a crafter who does not view knitting and crochet as their ‘own time’, a moment they steal to themselves amidst their daily tumult.
People often tell me this when I mention that I am learning to knit and we always agree that it is ‘very good for us’ and I imagine us in The Steamie, wagging our fingers and nodding our heads at each other with that gentle chiding tone of ‘you must get yer knitting time in!..its good fur ye!’
Embracing Slowcraft: The Art and Soul of Knitting
Why we are not doing a normal 'Black Friday'
What is The Orry Mill?
The Orry Mill was started to share our love of crafting and colour with the local community. The shop was to be more than a retail outlet, a place to visit and spend time in, to leave having learned something new, or to have found something that inspired you just a little bit.