Arts and crafts describe a wide variety of activities involving making things with one's own hands. These days, arts and crafts fill the space known as hobbies. Some crafts have been honed over times past, others are more recent inventions. Some are meant to be used up, like soap, and others can become family treasures. All are an outlet for our creative expression.
A Seabrook Island artist created a quilting project to help a wider community come together in her Together While Apart project. Crossroads explores craft in America, how borders and personal crossroads affect an artist, and the intersection of craft, culture and technology.
SCETV, PBS, Passport, and Knowitall.org contain a wealth of information about these hobbies should you want to take up something new in the New Year! Scroll through the list of arts and crafts to see which ones you might want to learn more about. For upcoming Events in the Community, please refer to SCETV's Public Events Calendar and if you learn of crafting events, please add them to the schedule.
Fiber and textile crafts, such as knitting, crocheting, quilting, weaving, felting, making clothing
The fabric arts are beautiful to be sure, but every stitch ties us back to a history of sewers, creators and storytellers, and history makers. Many of us have quilters in our family. In mine, I called them the cotton painters for the art that they created on their handmade canvases. In this busy world with the reliance on technology, it is good to break away and create something for beauty and comfort, something tangible that can be held in the hands, or cherished for years to come. Dividing the crafts into sections is tricky as most fabric that we use has been woven, and garments can be knitted as well as sewn, but here we go!
