📈 Industry News & Trends: Crafting Boom in 2024 | BlogcraftsNYC
2024 Crafting Trends to Watch: Get Inspired & Stay Ahead
2024 is set to be an exciting year for the craft and DIY industry! With more people embracing creativity and handmade designs, the following trends are set to take over:
Sustainable Crafting: 🌱♻️
As eco-conscious living becomes more widespread, sustainable crafting is on the rise. Expect upcycled materials, eco-friendly dyes, and zero-waste projects to dominate the scene.
Digital Art & Crafts Hybrid: 🎨🖥️
Combining digital tools with traditional crafting methods is revolutionizing the way we create. Think AI-generated patterns or designs paired with hand-painted details.
Bold Colors & Patterns: 🎨🌈
Vibrant, bold color palettes are trending in textiles, pottery, and home décor. From neon threads to geometric designs, 2024 is all about making a statement.
Crafting for Mental Health: 💆♀️🧶
Crafting has been shown to reduce stress and anxiety. Look out for DIY kits focused on mindfulness, relaxation, and self-care in the coming year.
Personalized DIY Kits: 🎁✂️
People love crafting experiences that are tailored to their style. Customizable DIY kits are growing in popularity as a gift idea, especially for holidays and special occasions.
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Crafting is self-care. Create calm, color, and joy with our wellness crafts and happiness kits. You don’t have to be an artist—just a maker of your own joy.
We're used to burning incense to make wishes—but this time, I wanted to try something different. Using the vitality of plants, I created incense that truly "breathes."
Every time it's lit, it's a dialogue with nature itself.
The first is Algae Incense Sticks, made from natural green algae. When burning, it produces almost no smoke pollution and emits only a subtle botanical fragrance, as gentle as nature's own breath. The process of making algae incense was full of challenges, testing my patience and becoming a meditative journey of self-cultivation.
In my blog, I documented the entire production process in detail—from selecting materials and handcrafting to the final product.
Select dried algae and other raw materials for making incense sticks.
In my design, the algae used to craft the incense are harvested directly from cultivation vessels integrated within the architecture itself. These algae are carefully grown, nurtured until mature, and then gently dried in the sun to preserve their natural fragrance and purity. Visitors to the temple are invited to personally select from these dried algae, each choice reflecting their own intentions and preferences. This interactive experience not only enhances the spiritual connection, but also reinforces the harmony between human rituals and ecological sustainability.
Weigh the algaes and other natural materials according to the formula.
Using the most primitive method, the raw materials are ground into powder over a period of 3-4 hours. During this process, one sweats lightly, exercising both body and mind, and honing willpower.
Sift the ground fine powder continuously and then grind it again.
Grind other materials and mix them in the right proportions.Add some essential oil to bond the various materials together, forming a soft clump. Then, put this mixture into the machine for making incense sticks.
Place the mixture into an incense extruder to form the desired length.The most difficult part of this step is controlling the spacing and length of each incense stick. You need to cut at the right position, and the machine won't stop to wait for you.
This is the most challenging step. Arrange them neatly on a drying rack for air-drying, as this will determine whether the dried incense sticks are straight.You definitely don't want to offer a bent incense stick to the Buddha.
They can be naturally air-dried or gently oven-dried to remove moisture. Now，the incense sticks are now ready and can be lit.
Playing scavenger with some of the flowers from sister's wedding. Apprehensive about using them for my lil smudge bundles because they're probably covered in preservatives. Mayhaps they will just be for decor 🌹 #smudge #mindfulmaking #roses (at Michigan) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn1QphCl1Rh/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=b67w52ixotxa
English Paper Piecing. Transportable Craft. New Adventure. New Skill. . . . #englishpaperpiecing #EPP #craftonthego #craftforsmallspaces #mindfulmaking #slowstitchgroup #slowstirch
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Between January 15th and 17th I opened the 5 bags of 'textiletrash' that my #parejadedeshechoTalia Schurmann kindly donated to this project on January 12th.
I slowly unfolded • refolded • sorted • bundled • weighed the material...
Finding magic in the process - of processing it all.
While listening to Krista Tippett’s On Being with MARTIN SHEEN — Spirituality of Imagination.
... to be resourceful, to compose with what we already have around us ...
Like the 14.42kg / 31.8lbs of gathered material that was considered ‘textile trash’
