Christian Crafts
- meaningful and enjoyable pastimes
for adults and kids

Christian crafts are great ice-breakers. When crafters get together, they can chat for hours admiring each others handiworks and exchanging tips and ideas.

For each individual crafter, it is a stress relief exercise - an outlet for ones creativity.

When enjoyed together, these crafts can be means of forming social networks - an avenue to get to know others and connect with a common interest.

Personally, I have used crafts to de-stress. I also use crafts like cardmaking and scrapbooking to help others who are troubled and depressed.

Cardmaking

This is a papercraft enjoyed by many. Using rubber stamps, computer cliparts and fonts and embellishments, many crafters have been hand making greeting cards at home alone or with friends. Swaps have been hosted to swap homemade cards with one another. This is a very satisfying and meaningful hobby because with every card made and sent, one can touch a life for good. The time and dedication put into making the greeting card and a heartfelt Christian message personally handwritten can bring so much encouragement to someone who's down and in need of a friend. Nothing can beat receiving a handcrafted greeting card.

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Scrapbooking

A craft that attempts to preserve memories with photographs, memorabilias, and journalling. This is quite a time consuming hobby which uses archival materials to preserve photographs and other items included in the scrapbook albums. Like cardmaking, scrapbooking allows the crafter to work on projects individually or with others. It is a good creative craft enjoyed by women of all ages and walks of life.

Christian Faithbooking

This is the same as scrapbooking. The only thing is that here, within the Christian faith books are notable memories of spiritual events, devotional thoughts, Christian quotes and poems and other Christian messages that touches ones life. It is a photographic journal of ones spiritual journey from one stage of growth to another. Photographs are important elements both in the craft of faithbooking and scrapbooking.

Cross-stitching

The craft of using embroidery threads to sew cross shaped stitches on a even weaved fabric. Many beautiful tapestries of Biblical scenes have been cross-stitched by Christian women; decorating homes and churches.

Quilting

Many women including Christians love to quilt. Designing, measuring, cutting and piecing fabrics together to form a quilt is a craft that many of the older women enjoy doing. My mom loves to quilt. She would spends days working on a quilt blanket for one of us. I still have a lovely pink colored quilt that she made for me some years ago. Now, because of failing eyesight, she has stopped quilting.

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