With our phones and devices never more than a hands length away everything we need can be obtained by a click of a finger, but now the fashionable trend is taking us back to using our hands to create. It’s very satisfying and therapeutic to make something with your hands, and more and more people are giving their hands a rest from the keyboard to create.

Being able to buy high street fashion at an affordable price and the end of school needlework and cookery lessons  slowed down the crafts of home sewing and baking in the 80’s, but now the Great British Bake Off has brought about a huge revival in home baking and The Great British Sewing Bee thankfully has got us picking up our needles and threads.

It’s so easy to learn new crafts without leaving the house, You Tube videos can be found to cover every aspect. Sewing patterns can be brought from companies such as Butterick that are identical to designer fashions both past and present.

But what could be nicer than crafting and meeting new people at the same time.

Workshops and sewing groups are opening up all over the country, Claire-Louise Hardy ‘Thrifty Stitcher’ offers friendly sewing classes for aspiring DIY seamstresses and crafters, where she shares her expertise first hand from being a costume designer for Theatre, Film and TV to a magazine columnist and author of Fashion With fabric. The sewing cafe has been successful in its mission to provide an inspirational place to indulge our passion for sewing. You can put your hands to sewing for charity by creating for the many charities who are asking for handmade donations, or stitching to create dresses to be sent to third world countries to enable girls to be dressed correctly so they can attend school.

But what about your hands! The main problem is that most sewers get a reoccurring split in skin on a finger or thumb exactly at the place where there is continually pressure from the needle. Washing hands constantly dries the skin, and just touching the fabric takes moisture out of our hands. Also when hands are dry it is difficult to even feel what you are doing, the warp and weft become untraceable!

Thats why SEAMS Hand Cream was created, deeply moisturising hands to enable you to feel the fabric, work faster and in comfort. Our unique formula helps to heal those cuts and pinpricks, whilst absorbing into skin within 1 minute so not leaving any greasy residue on fabric. making the practical beautiful.

Touch and be touched with incredibly soft hands.

Karen J.