So many people ask me why I enjoy both cross stitching and knitting and I can very simply say that it helps me stitch m mind back together. That might sound very odd to a lot of people but let me explain what I am trying to say and maybe you will understand it a little better.
For me finding that time each day to do something that makes
me happy and helps me focus on everything that is going on in my life helps a
lot. There are times when I can sit and work on a project either cross stitch
or knitting and I can figure out the solution that I have trying to figure for
quite a while before I sit down and craft. My crafting can help me regain the
focus that is needed to resolve an issue that has been something that I have
been dealing with for a while.
It has ben interesting to see my crafting life through the years and I can say that crafting has helped me through high school, college and every other part of my life because it gives me an escape from the things that are happening in my life. My crafting has been able to bring me join when I wasn’t sure how to be happy especially when going through the exam times of both high school and college. The challenges of those times were difficult but being able to find that little bit of time to sit and craft helped me regain my focus.
During Covid, so many people turned to crafting as a means of handling being at home all the time but for me crafting was just something that I did because it was a normal part of my life. I might have done more crafting during the time we were required to be at home, but it didn’t seem to be something that I only did when we were in lockdown.
Later in life I have found that crafting has helped me stay grounded when things has seemed to get overwhelming. Being able to focus on my crafting even for a little bit each day has helped me know that I can get through anything that life continues to throw at me. I know there are there are times I am going to need a simpler project, but I normally have one of those ready to go and then there are times that I need a challenging project.
I craft because that is part of my life and that is also what makes me happy and it something that I find helps me relax at the end of a crazy day. Maybe crafting isn’t something that everyone would want to do but we need to understand that crafting may help someone find the peace in their life when life just seems to get out of control.
