Threads of Becoming Weaving Life’s Choices into Wearable & Hanging Stories

Sewing, threading, and weaving as metaphors for life’s choices, transitions, and connections. Participants create symbolic necklaces and/or small wall hangings using fabric scraps, threads, buttons, beads, lace, and found notions—each piece becoming a tactile story of movement, repair, and becoming.
Suitable for:
Adults • creatives • therapists • community groups • neurodivergent-affirming spaces
(No sewing experience required)
Therapeutic Intent
• Explore choice, agency, repair, and continuity
• Externalise inner narratives through hands-on making
• Support regulation through rhythmic, repetitive stitching
• Create meaning through symbolic assemblage
Therapeutic Outcomes
Participants will:
• Experience sewing and threading as grounding, regulating practices
• Reflect on life paths, crossroads, and moments of mending
• Create a personal talisman (necklace or hanging) representing their journey
• Strengthen self-compassion through visible imperfection and repair