Unpicking Patterns of Behaviour in Home Sewing

What makes home sewists start to make their own clothes? And how does this relate to their imaginative and creative style of thinking? Lauren Cox stitches together the results of her research into the motivational patterns of sewists.

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Pictures in the mind – are they as creative as we imagine?

What goes on when we see images in our mind? And is the strength and vividness of these images related to our ability to think creativity? Kathryn Friedlander talks us through the new findings from her recent journal article and argues that it all might depend on what kind of imagery we tend to conjure up.

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Calling All Sewists!

Do you sew garments at home for yourself or others? We’re currently running a survey looking at the reasons people sew garments, together with some other aspects of personality which may be relevant. This is a really interesting leisure activity, but it’s heavily under-researched, so the findings are going to be fascinating.

The survey should only take about 20 minutes to complete, and it’s totally anonymous. Please do consider taking part, by clicking the link here to find out more!

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