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"I felt relaxed doing the textile activity, it helped to keep me occupied and distracted me from my mental health problems"
Step 2: Choose your fabric
- When you come back home, choose fabrics you like and cut out appliqué shapes and a background to describe the item you’ve seen
- Pin or tack the appliqué shape/s to the background
Step 3: Choose your stitch
- Now, browse our stitches and choose 2 or more to describe the textures on your shape. Stitch guides can be found below left, if you'd like to know how to create these stitches.
*See Couching - various stitches can be used to couch including blanket stitch (button hole), cross and stab stitch
Automatic forgiveness:
As with all our ‘A bit a day’ exercises, if you miss a day, don’t worry. Just carry on the following day, or as soon as you can.