A personal newsletter from a UK-based crafter writing about gardening, knitting, preserving, DIY home renovation and slow, mindful creative hobbies. It offers a relaxed, diary-style look at the everyday joys and frustrations of making things by hand.
Website: https://craftandthrift.substack.com
A knitting history newsletter exploring the origins and evolution of knitting techniques and sweater shapes, with a focus on the circular yoke sweater and historical patterns. Readers get well-researched essays with archival detail, gauge measurements and hands-on experiments with 19th-century and 20th-century knitting.
A personal newsletter about using paper, ink and bookbinding as tools for reclaiming attention, written from the perspective of a maker with ADHD. Issues mix candid personal essays with practical techniques, such as a downloadable template for handling transitions between appointments.
A craft newsletter documenting hands-on woodworking and making projects, including building wooden electronic components wrapped in washi and producing high-carbon charcoal. It also includes personal reflections on nature walks and collecting lichens.
A personal documentary-style newsletter about homesteading life in coastal Maine, covering building a house, keeping sheep, foraging, preserving food and making crafts. Readers get episode notes, recipes and narrative essays about seasonal rural living.
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