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SUMMARY:Handwork in the Modern Age with Melanie Falick 
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DESCRIPTION:Writer\, editor\, creative consultant\, and knitter Melanie Fa
 lick offers a thoughtful conversation about why we’re drawn to hand
 work in this modern age. \n\n.\nhttps://neworleans.libnet.info/event/16976
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>Register to watch live and ask questions\,
  or view the recording anytime on <a href="https://www.creativebug.com/lib
 /nolalib">Creativebug</a>.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Knitter Melanie Falick leads a c
 onversation about handwork in the modern age. Where do those impulses come
  from? What do they give us&mdash\;beyond the finished object? And how can
  the skills\, values\, and perspectives we carry as makers support our own
  well-being\, strengthen our communities\, and gently ripple out into the 
 wider world? Come as you are\, with your curiosity\, your questions\, and 
 your hands ready&mdash\;to make stitches as well as love\, connection\, pe
 ace\, and time.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Melanie Falick is an independent writer\, e
 ditor\, and creative consultant. Her book\, <em>Making a Life: Working by 
 Hand and Discovering the Life You Are Meant to Live</em>\, was published i
 n 2019. In her former role as the publishing director of STC Craft/Melanie
  Falick Books\, an imprint of Abrams. She published books by Creativebug a
 rtists Natalie Chanin\, Heather Ross\, Heather Jones\, Anna Joyce\, Denyse
  Schmidt\, Liesl Gibson\, Gretchen Hirsch\, and Kelly Wilkinson. She is th
 e former editor-in-chief of&nbsp\;<em>Interweave Knits</em>&nbsp\;magazine
  and the author of <em>Weekend Knitting\, America Knits</em> (originally p
 ublished as <em>Knitting in America</em>)\, <em>Kids Knitting</em>\, <em>H
 andknit Holidays</em>\,&nbsp\;and <em>Knit: A Personal Handbook</em>\, and
  the co-author (with Kristin Nicholas) of <em>Knitting for Baby.</em>&nbsp
 \;</p>\nhttps://neworleans.libnet.info/event/16976496
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