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Abstract
The year 2013, declared the Jubilee Year of Handcraft in Finland, raised the level of public awareness towards crafts by engaging craft-makers in several virtual and in-person craft projects. One of the projects was a short film competition called Crafts in Our Lives, which asked craft practitioners to present their vision of how crafts have been part of their lives through film-making. This article contributes to the current debates about the meanings of contemporary craft-making through an autoethnographic short film project inspired by the competition. The short film reflects on the experiences of a young hobbyist knitter, with attention to the subversive Do-It-Yourself movement on the one hand and the resurgence of the nostalgic granny-like “nanna” practices on the other. The autoethnographic project sheds light on the meanings and experiences of a young craft-maker, and articulates the potential of a camera as a tool for reviewing one’s own maker identities.VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x02fmvg5yuo.
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