Calm Stitching: A Seasonal Journey
Keep Stitching With Us All Season*
Calm Stitching is designed to build from month to month, with each session offering a new way to support your well-being through your craft.
Attend THREE Calm Stitching sessions at Knit Paper Scissors from September through December, and you will receive one complimentary Calm Stitching session in the new year. See below for upcoming learning topics.
Once we learn to arrive, we can begin to notice what we are carrying.
In October's Calm Stitching session, Letting Go, we will explore the physical and mental tension that can show up while we stitch. Tight hands, raised shoulders, a clenched jaw, rushing through a difficult section, or feeling like every stitch needs to be perfect can all take us away from the experience of making.
Through gentle movement, breath, mindful stitching, and reflection, we will practice softening our grip, releasing unnecessary tension, and making room for imperfection.
We will also revisit the analog bag as a simple way to create intentional, screen-free space in your day. Having something ready to pick up can make it easier to step away from the noise and demands around you and choose a few moments of making, pausing, and reconnecting.
Your project does not have to be perfect for the practice to be worthwhile. Sometimes the most supportive thing we can do is loosen our grip and keep going.
Evening Flow
Enjoy an exclusive, unhurried shopping experience at Knit Paper Scissors, reserved for Calm Stitching participants.
Settle in together, introduce the October theme, and explore simple practices to help you come home to yourself.
A few quiet minutes to transition from conversation and instruction into your personal stitching practice.
Settle into your own project while receiving gentle, occasional cues to notice your breath, body, hands, and attention.
Class: Calm Stitching - Arriving: Letting Go
Skill Level: All levels
Must Know Beforehand: Bring a simple/non-complex current knitting, crochet, or other portable handcraft project. This is not a help session. A simple pattern/project supports our group practice.
Class Sessions: One 75-minute session
Cost: $30
You will learn:
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Simple ways to arrive and settle before you begin stitching.
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How to notice tension in your body and create moments to pause and move.
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How a practice journal, analog bag, and stretch timer can support a consistent wellness practice.
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How to bring these small practices into your everyday life.
What to bring:
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Your current knitting, crochet, or other portable handcraft project and supplies.
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A journal or small notebook for reflection.
Instructor: Susan
*Calm Stitching: A Seasonal Journey
Each session builds on the one before, giving you simple practices to support your well-being through the changing seasons.
October: Letting Go
Releasing What You Are Holding
Exploring tension, perfectionism, and the practice of softening your grip.
November: Receiving
Allowing Yourself to Be Supported
Making space for gratitude, nourishment, connection, and receiving.
December: Carrying Calm Forward
Creating a Practice That Lasts
Bringing the practices from the season into your everyday life and creating rituals you can continue beyond the holidays.
Classes with fewer than three students will be canceled 72 hours before the start date, and participants will receive a full refund. No refund will be issued for cancel registration 72 hours before class.
Please take a moment to review our Class Polices, regarding cancellations, minimum enrollment etc.
| Skill Level: | Beginner |
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| Instructor: | Susan Cox |
| Instructor Bio: | Susan Cox is a native Nebraskan who returned after living in 3 other states over 17 years. In February of 2024, she finally picked up her knitting needles again and quickly found the rhythm of knitting very cathartic and meditative. She loves the fact that every pattern teaches her something new - a stitch or a technique and reminds her to enjoy the process of solving and creating. Most of her professional life was spent in the insurance industry. After having experienced difficult losses and dealing with the grief cycle, her body gave signs of needing healing. She went searching for different ways to eat and found whole body healing through many small but mighty practices. Her health and lab results turned around. As she prepared to move home she took the opportunity to pursue a new calling, directly related to her improved health and wellness - helping women find their calm and heal their bodies. She is a national board and functional medicine certified health coach. It gives her joy to help women love and care for themselves. |
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