And so Threads of Stillness has a website! This feels like a huge step, and I’m remembering the quote by Ray Bradbury to “jump off the cliff and learn how to make wings on the way down.”
Bempton Cliffs on the East Coast of Yorkshire
I’ve been making things since being very young (I recently found a list of all the crafts I wanted to try, written when I was a teenager – everything from stained glass to weaving), and found embroidery very therapeutic during periods of anxiety and depression. For years it was a hobby which didn’t fit anywhere into the expected path of ‘go to university, get a proper stable job, get married, have children etc etc’!
For the last five years or so the seed of an idea grew, very very slowly. In 2014 I went to a feltmaking workshop run by Jenny Pepper, and found a technique that felt right for me.
Since then I’ve been daydreaming/planning/procrastinating. My daughter was born in 2016 (and she didn’t sleep very well), then redundancy in 2017 gave me an ideal opportunity to develop feltmaking further (and took away one of the many excuses I was using to put off doing anything!)
So years of planning and dreaming now need to become action…