Crafting rarely announces itself as therapy. It starts as a way to fill an evening, and somewhere between the third and the thirtieth attempt it turns into the part of the week that holds everything else together. Knitting, painting, throwing clay, taking apart a jacket that no longer fits: the material changes, the effect does not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What follows is not a method. It is a walk through five crafts, what each one asks of you, and what people who teach them notice about the students who keep coming back. Looking back, the turning points seem obvious, yet at the time they felt like ordinary days. The result is a picture that is richer, more nuanced and more honest than the first impression suggests.<\/p>\n\n\n