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Engaging with land, craft and spirit to reweave ourselves into the fabric of this world.

12/23/2025

“It is deeply satisfying to bring these slow ones to life. To see them transform from their flat fabric origins to fully formed individuals is quite a thing. To engage my hands in each and every step, a feeling I can’t describe. So rare is it in my day-to-day life not to have my thoughts and actions mediated by some device, but right there between forefinger and thumb.”

Sharing reflections on the meaning, process, and joy of making hand-made gifts this season. This was the year of the snails. Each one, an embodied reminder to slow down, if even just a bit.

Read the entire piece on substack at The Rewoven Human (link in bio).

12/18/2025

Mindful knitting is a practice that realigns heart, body, and mind with the material world.

Sitting quietly on a December afternoon with a cup of tea and a half-done sweater is an accessible way to reattune with this season’s natural slower pace. Knitting allows us to blend being with doing, and to find comfort in a season that can bring stress for many.

May you enjoy your creative practice this season.

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Registration is OPEN for our spring Creative BEing Craft retreat at

June 18-21 | Knoll Farm, VT

🌱 Use code EARLYSPRING for $75 off through 12/31.

Link in bio to register 👆

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12/01/2025

Registration for our Spring 2026 Craft Retreat is OPEN!

Join us as we spend 4 days at historic Knoll Farm in Waitsfield, VT () creating space, time, and opportunity for your creative practice to unfold.

Not only is this a gorgeous location, it is also the home to a special flock of Icelandic sheep who are the subject of ‘s beautiful book The Salt Stones. The way that Helen describes her deep connection to land, beings, and life through the care of her flock is profoundly resonant with our mission to reconnect to ourselves, each other, and the earth through craft.

What to Expect at the Retreat:

🐑 Three nights of a unique farm-stay yurt lodging experience
🐑 All farm-to-table meals
🐑 Farm Tour
🐑 Sheep fleece processing demonstration
🐑 Morning mindfulness sessions
🐑 Herbal teas for nourishment and reconnection
🐑 Wood-fired hot tun and wood-fired sauna
🐑 Evening community fires

We’re excited to partner again with Nicole Cormier, RD, LDN () who will help us expand our understanding of creativity to include the practices needed for nourishment and healing.

☝️Registration link in bio! ☝️

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Use code EARLYSPRING for $75 off through 12/31

11/27/2025

How we spend the holidays -
Like how we spend every day of our life -
Is our choice.

We get to decide what is important, what is meaningful, where we want to invest, how we choose show up.

As we gather this holiday, let’s have the courage and desire to look clearly at our history and our culture and put time into imagining the more beautiful world we know in our hearts to be possible.

Our actions, our intentions, and our energy can transform this world the more beautiful place we know it can be.

Happy Thanksgiving.
AND
Recognizing this Day of Mourning.

11/10/2025

A captured moment from this morning’s board meeting. We spend the first 30 minutes of each meeting sharing about our current creative projects and practice.

As an organization, we aspire to ensure that the way we are in practice together at our meetings mirrors the way that we share our practice in our programs and services.

We are deeply committed to exploring not only how to reconnect with ourselves, each other, and the earth through mindful craft - but also how we can craft an organization that is people-driven so that we can advance work that is mission-driven.

Thank you dear founding council for your practice and your co-creation 🌱

11/04/2025

There is something particularly important about taking an object or material that may be familiar to you and using it in a completely new way…

Our initial inspiration to design the quahog as a weaving loom came from a lifelong love of the fascinating purple interior of the quahog shell known as wampum. We spent months playing and carving (and alas, breaking) shells until we discovered a way to utilize them as a natural loom.

Please join us for this special 3-hour in-person workshop at where you will learn how to transform the quahog shell from common clam into a truly delightful work of art. Explore the history and cultural significance of this bivale while you warp and weave your own shell.

Workshop cost includes all materials AND a stuffed quahog snack!

Link to register in bio

11/03/2025

Today, I start begin a period of writing full-time to complete an upcoming book on mindful craft (yes please wish me luck!)

Sometimes, writing is writing.

Sometimes it’s knitting then writing.

Sometimes it’s writing-knitting-writing.

Sometimes, it’s just knitting.

I’ve realized that my creative practices are not only intertwined - they feed each other. I get inspired by language as I knit, and often while at my computer my hands long to touch something other than a keyboard.

I consider this my contemplative writing craft. It took me a long time to allow myself to write like this. There’s more joy in it now.

May you find your practice. 🧶

May it be a delight for you. ✨

10/25/2025

Some people go to church in Sundays in search of the spiritual. Others find it on Saturday evenings carefully combing out a sheep fleece.

That powerful feeling of connection can be present anywhere…

For those who know the power of craft, you know it can be found right there between your two hands ✨

10/19/2025

Our sense of touch is a superpower - a subtle voice gently whispering the world’s secrets through our fingertips. ✨

But for many of us, this voice is becoming weaker and we are forgetting how to speak its language.

Attending a fiber festival is like a crash course in a foreign language - a way to remember how to speak the tongue of the material world…

Places like offer more than a great place to shop for yarn - they are also an immersive sensory experience where we can reconnect animal to fiber to craft. We can smell and touch different types of sheep and then see their processed wool in beautiful skeins of yarn. We can find comfort and joy in a community of makers who care deeply for the tending of connections between land, creature, and maker.

These experiences matter. They help us bring our craft to life. They revive our sense of connection to ourselves, each other, and the earth. ❤️🐑🙏

Thank you to everyone who made possible! ❤️🙏🐑

10/18/2025

Day 1 of .

As a first-timer, it was a bit overwhelming but also a total delight to be surrounded on ALL sides by humans who care deeply about craft and fiber creatures of all varieties.

An important time to replenish the joy reserve 🐑

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http://www.theinterwoveninstitute.org/

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