I think it's a mix of several reasons - doing crafts because celebrities are, because their peers are, or because they need to learn a technique for some aspect of their course.
Celebrities have their place - Una Stubbs (actress) more or less started a knitting craze some years back. In the late 1960s it was an actress sat tatting whilst telling the story so far at the beginning of a popular soap (I can't remember her name, but she played Amy Turtle in Crossroads) that started my mom's interest, which lasted her the rest of her life - mom tatted my wedding tiara. My sister worked on the haberdashery and wool counter in a large department store and quite often served the actress - and saw the sales of thread and equipment increase as a result. Jane Partridge On 22 Jul 2016, at 17:06, Devon Thein <[email protected]> wrote: I would also take issue with the idea that knitting and crochet are popular because celebrities are doing them. - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
