Motivations for Participation in Knitting Among Young Women

Abstract

MOTIVATIONS FOR PARTICIPATION IN KNITTING AMONG YOUNG WOMEN

Glass to Fabric: Dale Chihuly's Blown Glass Inspired Design

“…Needle felting is an art form of repetitive yet therapeutic motion, and that is similar to other art forms such as embroidery, weaving, and knitting. This work can follow Stannard & Sanders (2015) footsteps to explore it through the lens of Uses and Gratification Theory.…”

Why Do They Sew? A Need to Discover the Motives of Young Women to Sew Their Own Clothing

“…This theory has previously been used to interpret knitting motivations (Stannard & Sanders, 2015) and could provide valuable interpretation into women's psychological sewing motivations. A grounded theory approach will likely be used in interpret non-psychological motivations, time spent sewing, and sewing related expenditures.…”

Women’s motivations to sew clothing for themselves

“…Handcraft-related leisure research has been significantly overlooked by academics. Research that has been conducted on handcrafts has been conducted mainly on knitting (Stannard & Sanders, 2015;Winge & Stalp, 2013) and on quilting (Stalp, 2006;Stalp & Coniti, 2011) with two additional studies grouping knitting, crochet, embroidery, and quilting together (Johnson &Wilson, 2005;Schofield & Littrell, 2001). Stalp (2015) argued that women's leisure, especially women's sedentary leisure, has been undervalued because fabric-related items are taken for granted in people's lives and therefore seen as less valuable to research.…”

“…The findings of Kean and Levin, along with the industry reports (Haider, 2014;"Sewing, Needlework," 2015), indicate that the frameworks of Toffler's thesis, prosumerism (Kolter, 1986;Ritzer, Dean, & Jurgenson, 2012), DIY (Watson & Shove, 2008), and craft consumer (Campbell, 2005) literature could be useful in understanding and providing insight into the motivations of female home sewers who sew garments for themselves. To understand the psychological motivations of women to sew, uses and gratification theory (UG) was identified, as it has been used to understand other handcraft motivations (Stannard & Sanders, 2015).…”

“…UG has been applied to many different types of activities other than media that were a source of leisure for the individuals, such as social media involvement (Shao, 2009;Whiting & Williams, 2013). It has also been applied to describe the interactions between individuals and mass media, such as advertising effectiveness (Ko, Cho, & Roberts, 2005) and online shopping preferences (Cho, 2007), and to understanding the motivation of young women to knit (Stannard & Sanders, 2015).…”