CraftyPod #72: Crafting as Spirituality

by Sister-Diane on April 4, 2008

in Interviews, Podcast


Prayer box by Amy Kleene.

Welcome to the CraftyPod, a craft podcast all about making stuff.

Click the “Play” button at the bottom of this post to listen!

In this show:

- An interview with spiritual crafter Amy Kleene.

- Thoughts on how crafting is a spiritual act, and how handmade things can be sacred objects.

- Ideas on how to use handmade things to create sacred spaces, and how to use them.

Links for you:

- Amy’s website, Blessing Bird.

- A great book: Crafts for the Spirit, by Ronni Lundy.

- Two excellent books by Kimberly Winston: Bead One, Pray Too, and Fabric of Faith.

- Creative/Spiritual food for thought, on Soulful Living.

- An interesting prayer bead tutorial.

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  • Hi Diane! This is my favorite crafty pod EVER! I consider my beading time to be my spiritual time as well. I LOVE the idea of transferring your energy into your craft. To me it means that a recipient/customer not only receives a physical object, but also a piece of the artist. Thank you for this interview!
  • Hello Sister Diane! I've been too long away from your wonderful site. This was a great podcast. A wonderful reminder of the love that exists in handmade objects. Thank you, thank you!
  • I LOVE IT! Thank you for all your wonderful interviews Sister Diane. As you can imagine, I am VERY inspired by this interview and by Amy and her wonderful work in the world.

    This is what it is all about for me and I am so glad that conversations like this are happening in the world.

    THANK YOU!
  • Hi, Denise! What a wonderful podcast! I loved the questions you asked Amy - exactly what I wanted to know. I especially loved what she said about the need to carve out some sacred time and space in which to craft. This is a major theme in my own life and work. I believe that God - by any name you call Him/Her - was the first creator and because of that, our own impulse to create is, by its very nature, divinely inspired and our deepest link back to God. Thank you for this wonderful interview.
  • As usual, worth waiting for. Amy is wild! I like that you emphasize craft and art as meditative and spiritual media. That's exactly what they are to me. I think the restorative qualities of craft saved me several years ago. I really have gotten more in touch with my deepest thoughts and the life around me and beyond, since I started this practice.
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