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Beat The Royal Mail Strikes With Hybrid Crafting

Hi everyone. What is hybrid crafting? Along with “How can I hide yet more new craft supplies from my husband?” and “Why are there strips of red liner backing tape all over the dog?”, this is one of the questions that have troubled crafters ever since computers and crafting went to bed together. There are various definitions for the word hybrid but my personal favourite is “anything composed of elements of different or incongruous kinds”. The key word here is “incongruous”. Put simply, computer and crafting should never have been bedfellows. One is mechanical, impersonal, cold and at times (usually when you’re in a hurry and need to print something out before the kids get back from school), unbearably frustrating. The other is handmade, inviting, warm and relaxing, at least most of the time. (That red liner backing tape again.) In simple terms, hybrid crafting is just a mixture of digital crafting and non-digital crafting. Digital crafting requires an electronic device such as a compu...