Making Things: Finding Use, Meaning, and Satisfaction in Crafting Everyday Objects

Making Things is a celebration of the art and ritual of crafting by hand, encouraging mindfulness, skill, and materiality. It offers easy-to-follow tutorials for 100 projects, celebrating the satisfaction of slowly and carefully crafting something oneself. It is an antidote to the alienation created by a life of screens, reminding us that we have bodies, preferences, and are more able than we've grown to believe.

Format: Hardback
Length: 320 pages
Publication date: 09 May 2024
Publisher: Hardie Grant US

Making Things is a celebration of the art and ritual of crafting by hand that encourages a practice in mindfulness, a celebration of skill, and a return to materiality. Through easy-to-follow tutorials for approximately 100 projects that are both accessible and aspirational, Rose and Erin invite readers to take a toe-dip into simple, time-honoured craft traditions. The projects celebrate the satisfaction that comes from slowly and carefully crafting something oneself. Example projects include Fabric Scrap Bunting, Cloth Checkerboards, and Sewn Cardboard Toys. Requiring little to no skill and no special equipment, Making Things is the crafting book for all skill levels. This book teaches the reader how to make all kinds of beautiful things, but also how to make meaning. It is an antidote to the alienation created by a life of screens, reminding us that we have bodies, preferences, and are more able than we've grown to believe. – Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Weight: 1094g
Dimension: 246 x 196 x 29 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781958417270