Meditations for Makers: Daily Affirmations for a Creative Life

365 vignettes for maker, crafters, and artist of all stripes from celebrated artist and author of Making A Life and Simply Modern.

To lead a creative life is to experience dizzying highs and gloomy lows, and Deanne Fitzpatrick, a veteran textile artist and entrepreneur, has been there and back again. In this keepsake book, she shared thoughtful insights gleaned from over 25 years of making, offering 365 short vignettes encompassing themes of attention and mindfulness, beauty and design, community, faith, family, and embracing and overcoming fear and doubt. These meditations will help makers focus and may even lead to some creative breakthroughs. Read one a day, or devour the whole book in one sitting! It's up to you.

An essential companion book for anyone who struggles to stay inspired, especially during a time when creating and making can feel trivial, Meditations for Makers shows us that we now need makers more than ever. Features 75 original line drawings.

Deanne Fitzpatrick is renowned worldwide for her stunning rugs and pattern Her work is in the permanent collections of Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and the Canadian Museum of Civilization, and she is the author of Making a life, East COast Rug-Hooking Designs, Hook Me a Story, and Inspired Rug Hooking. She works from her studio downtown Amherst, Nova Scotia, and she writes and teaches on her website, hookingrugs.com