#threaduary

#threaduary

If you are a follower of me on Instagram then you would have seen me mentioning #threaduary daily this month

Threaduary was created last year by marnalunt as way of making her do a project to focus her mind to help her mentally get through what could be a very hard month. The message of making to help ease mental health is very important to her, it has been her saviour on many occasions.

Sew and so were inspired by this and so created some prompts to help people to follow and support #threaduary. So that it what I am following. It got off to a rocky start when somebody commented that Sew and so were getting too much credit for it and marnalunt wasn’t, how it was said didn’t really support the ethos of #threaduary but I tried to ignore it and carry on. If you’re on Instragram why not take a look and maybe join in?

Crafting has always been something that helps with my mental health, I suffer with anxiety and losing my mum in 2016 means that I quite often get “bad days”. However, as the motto goes “its ok not to be ok” and an hour of card making or a few stitches of my cross stitch and I’ve had my “me time” to think things over and what better way to do so by sticking a needle in something over and over again!!?! I often find if I’m having a stressful day in work or I am in a strange situation that makes my anxiety go up I’m dreaming of curling up with my cross stitch – a lot of people reach for a glass of wine – I reach for the stitching!

A good friend of mine works for Mind and runs the successful “mums matters” group and one thing that sticks in my mind from what she has told me is that you need to have something that defines you as a person and crafting is that thing that defines me! A lot of people know about my love for craft and I always get positive comments about it and people are genuinely interested.

It’s my excuse for spending hours crafting anyway and I’m sticking to it!!