Browsing by Subject "handcraft"

This is a study about one evening’s gathering with handcrafts. Marttaliitto and työväenopisto arrange multiple similar gatherings with handcraft. My aim was to arrange an evening with handcrafting such as any other evening with women, but everyone has their own crochets or knitting with them. I arranged the gathering to my four friends. Everybody did not know each other but some of them had met before. My aim was to research the atmosphere of the evening and co-teaching. My aim was not to generalize, and I did not make hypothesis. The research was descriptive. Research questions were: 1. What is the meaning of other mem-bers of the team when doing your own handcraft? 2. How is the peer education mediated in the gathering? My research was a qualitative research. My methodological approach was an ethnographic case study. The data was concise because I dealt that one night with a point of view of communality. I videoed the evening and used it as a supporting data for the questionnaire which I conducted to the participants the day after. Questions were open. There were four participants in my research. I divided the answers in to themes and analyzed the themes so that they answered into my research questions. The data shows that communality and being together was meaningful and handcrafts brought easiness to spend time with strangers. The handcrafts brought nice addition to gathering contrary to my expectation that the gathering would brought something extra to participants’ handcrafts. There was peer education among the conversation and it has been given lone and by jointly to person in need. The participants felt peer education and peer support pleasant and challenging. The participants felt pleasant to have support and self-confidence to handcraft. Some of them did not feel that they were enough talented. Overall the evening contained both deep conversations and lots of happiness and laugh.