Untangling the threads: Using a stitched reflective journal to make sense of things.
Creativity is a higher order thinking skill, textile crafts are great ways of processing feelings, and reflective journals are a useful tool for students, practitioners and researchers. In this blog, I shall explore how I combine these ideas, using mini textile and mixed-media collages in a stitched reflective journal, to document my reflexive journey. This has the added bonus of also being a calming and sensory soothing activity which helps me a achieve work/study/leisure ba