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Crafting to Keep Sane! - Suffolk University

Title (Dublin Core)

Crafting to Keep Sane! - Suffolk University

Description (Dublin Core)

Every New Year, I make a promise to myself to try my hand at a new skill. In 2020 I was eager to learn how to embroider. Of course, only a few months into this year, we were slammed with the reality of Covid-19. Many of us felt depressed and isolated. I know that I was feeling especially guilty about all the extra time I had at home but felt no motivation to try and achieve goals that I had set earlier in the year. One day in April I was scrolling Reddit and came across an embroidery group. Suddenly it dawned on me that I had not even attempted to try my hand at embroidery! Lucky for me, I already had the supplies. I sat there a while wondering what to stich. Then the image, we all know so well by now, of the Coronavirus molecule popped up on the Nightly News. I knew that would be my pattern for my first ever attempt at needlepoint. It quickly became a small project that I am very proud of and it is my little souvenir from this crazy year.
Embroidery of Coronavirus Molecule - Handmade

Date (Dublin Core)

August 18, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Ashley Johnson

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Ashley Johnson

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

GVT180

Partner (Dublin Core)

Suffolk University in Boston

Type (Dublin Core)

Photograph

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Art & Design
English Social Distance
English Recreation & Leisure

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

embroidery
crafting
needlepoint
DIY
quarantine
COVID-19

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

08/18/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

08/25/2020

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This item was submitted on August 18, 2020 by Ashley Johnson using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: http://mail.covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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