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Crafting is Healthy for Your Brain!
Knitting and other crafting can serve as a natural antidepressant says a new study published in The British Journal of Occupational Therapy.
Because crafting stimulates the use of many different areas of the brain – working memory and attention span, visuospatial processing, creativity and problem-solving abilities – there is a hypothesis that it can help keep the brain young by preventing cerebral atrophy and significantly delaying dementia.
As if our new Flying Fingers group didn’t already know this!
In case you don’t know, Flying Fingers meets monthly with the objective of making things for ourselves and others. You can choose to knit clothes for premature babies, you can sew bags to sell at our Farmers’ Market stall or you can just bring along a project you happen to be working on. Any and all crafters are welcome.
The next Flying Fingers get-together is on Monday 7 April at 10am at Val Puddiphatt’s. For more information, get in touch with Lis on (01736) 754146.
So come along and make your brain happy!
Pretty pretty coat hangers!
Earlier today, a group of Crowlas & Ludgvan WI members had a lovely time making padded coat hangers with expert tuition from Jane Twose.
Once we had been shown the techniques we chose our material and started personalising our creations. It was a lovely relaxing day. Thanks so much to Lis Davies for organising it.
(Jane also provided some excellent homemade orange and caramel cake which, appropriately, was cut with a pair of sewing scissors!)
It’s on the Cards
A group of crafty Crowlas & Ludgvan WI members met last week to create some beautiful greeting cards.
Putting their cutting, stamping and glueing skills to use, they made enough cards for a year’s worth of WI birthdays!
I’ll be you can’t wait for your birthday now!
The holly and the ivy …
This morning, the Murley Hall was nearly buried under a pile of delicious-smelling pine, holly, ivy, rosemary, bay and so much more!
Shirley led us, first by demonstrating her amazing eye for floral arrangements, whipping up a stunning display in a matter of minutes, and then by patiently helping us create our own masterpieces.
Aided by Lis’s endless supply of cake and mince pies, we all worked quietly and companiably, with only the occasional burst of a Christmas carol from ‘the naughty corner.’
By the end of the day, we went home with gorgeous Christmas wreaths and arrangements, surpassing all of our expectations.
See some more photos of the day, including some of our wreaths, by clicking here.
November craft night
Last night we held a wonderful craft evening instead of having our usual guest speaker. It was great fun to see our members all get involved in making some pretty Christmassy things.
We all enjoyed some mulled wine and mince pies while we worked and I think we’d all agree that the evening was a big success.
Thanks to Charlotte and Gail for organising it and for putting together our craft kits. Remember, if anyone would like to buy any additional kits, they’re available for £1 each and would make lovely stocking-stuffers for family members. Just email us at crowlasludgvanwi@gmail.com if you’re interested.
Felt Flower Workshop
A group of us put our crafty hands to work today and made some gorgeous felt flower brooches.
We started by making poppies for Remembrance Day, but under Lis’s patient tutelage we quickly got the hang of it and branched out into all manner of pink, purple and blue flowers.
Our usual £2 per participant hostess fee was collected and will be donated to the British Legion.
Thanks for a great day, Lis!
Click here to see more photos.
Dorothy’s Folk Art Workshop
Our own very clever Dorothy Oliver held a workshop in her home yesterday to teach members some of her wonderful folk art skills. You can see from the results in the photo to the right that the day was a great success. And we hear there was cake as well!
Chicken scratching!
A group of us attended a mini-workshop today at the home of Charlotte Robinson to learn a bit of chicken scratch embroidery.
For those of you who are curious, chicken scratch embroidery (also known as Depression lace or Amish embroidery) originated in early America and is meant to look like lace for people who couldn’t afford the real thing.
Under the expert tutelage of Gail Allen and Charlotte, we all stitched away at our bits of gingham, learning a basic but lovely star pattern. With a quick break for lunch and some delicious cake courtesy of Lis Davies, we were back at it again very quickly in the afternoon!
We hope this will be the first in a series of mini-workshops. Stay tuned for details of our next one!
Willow Weaving!
Today a group of us learned how to make our own willow baskets. We were taught by Lin Lovekin, a Cornish basketmaker, who brought some of her beautiful baskets with her – our efforts weren’t quite as good, but we did all have a great day.
In the end, we were all quite pleased with our baskets!
Thanks so much to Lis for organising the workshop, as well as providing delicious cake for everyone!
We hope to bring our baskets to the meeting on 15 October for everyone to look at!
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