Such a lovely reassuring book. This can either be read straight through or opened randomly and read a passage. The art is simple and beautiful.

I loved this collection of thoughts and meditations for makers/creatives. Half poetry, it captures the imagination and expands visual understanding. It touched me as an artist and creative.
I received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Not quite as I imagined, but a nice book to dip in and out of. Probably better as a book rather than a kindle book (easier to flip the pages at random).

Thank you NetGalley for my complimentary copy in return for my honest review.

This is a nice wee book that you would dip into, its not one to read all in one go. Thought provoking and quite interesting. I really enjoyed seeing the line drawings.
Thanks to Netgalley and Nimbus Publishing for the ARC.

If you consider yourself a maker of anything, from pillows to purses, then you should get this book. There are short thoughts written here that will give you a few minutes to just think. Think about yourself, what you want, and how to take care of yourself. This is a book that I will be using again and again as I try to take better care of myself and those around me in this stressful time.

"...to all of you who turn your hands to something...."
This is a lovely gift book for the creative folks on your Christmas list. I'm reviewing a digital advance copy from NetGalley but it looks like the print will have lots of room to add your own thoughts (as the author encourages you to do) & doodles and also to add color to Fitzpatrick's minimalist drawings.
While lovely and introspective, these seemingly stream of consciousness explorations on creativity and the nature of craft and inspiration are more ruminations than meditations. There is no order or organization and they do run on for 175 pages or so. Not for me but I do know crafters and artists who will eat this up.

I enjoyed this book but it is not the sort of book you would sit down and read on one sitting. It is written so that you can dip in every day to read your uplifting piece for the day. As a maker myself, I found this quite interesting and relevant .

Warmth in the hands of a maker. Deanne Fitzpatrick offers a lush book full of thoughts to encourage, calm, and soothe makers. A mixture of thoughts, prayers, and memories accompanied by elegant pen drawings. The focus is on the power of hand to make a create, whether it is a meal, a rug, or a painting. A delightful book for keep and also to give as a gift.

This wasn't what I expected. It felt more like bits and pieces from some diary. Maybe it was me and I was hoping for something more like journal prompts. I expected it to make me introspective but it didn't click for me.

This is an absolutely lovely, mind – stimulating book of short snippets of creative wisdom from a woman who creates! Yes, some of the snippets are about rug hooking, which I have never done, but I found so many of them were inspiring to me in my work as a fiction writer and collage artist. There is much here that I will be journaling with, and I think it will take me more than a year to go through it! I’m going to be gifting this beautifully-rendered book to many of my creative friends and know that it will be gladly received and put to creative use.

The whimsical line drawings are the perfect touch!

Thanks to NetGalley, the author and publisher for an advanced reading copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

I adore this book! As a creative and maker, this book resonates deep within my fibres.

Mediation for Makers is made up of 365 short vignettes. Some vignettes are poetic, others are motivational, others are a slice-of-life and some are just a kick in the pants to stop wasting time and to start making.

When I first began the book, I was flying through the pages. If you read it as you would a normal book, you could easily read it in one or two sittings. After several pages, I found myself pausing often to let the words ruminate; sometimes even repeating them out loud. Personally, I think that this book needs to be read slowly and mindfully. One vignette per day to keep maker's block at bay.

MEDITATION FOR MAKERS by Deanne Fitzpatrick is a remarkable book: heartfelt, beautiful, and marvelously made. However, the individual meditations are randomly shared -- making for a jarring experience. There is no sense to the order, any kind of progression such as a daily thought, a category of ideas, nothing to grasp and make sense of the lovely, pithy meditations. My shelves are stocked with such and I enjoy dipping into them for inspiration, respite, and joy, but this book will not be among them, as beautifully and wonderfully wrought as it is. I do not hook rugs and while the declarations about color and texture are universal, others are not. I received an advance copy of this book and my review is voluntary and unbiased.

This is an interesting book to dip into and read the odd snippet. It is a collection of the author's thoughts on creating. It is rather difficult to read as the meditations are in no particular order. It would have been helpful if they were in chapters and perhaps had some inspiring pictures.

There are some interesting thoughts here, cleverly expressed. I know I will ruminate over several things I read for quite a while. A broad variety of topics are included--love, faith, family, creativity, interconnectedness, nature, gratitude, and so much more. The affirmation of how important the process of creating is, both for oneself and the world, really resonated with me.

What would have worked a bit better for me would have been an organization or structure to the book. There doesn't seem to be any obvious reason for how the meditations are ordered or presented and I missed that sense of purpose or intentionality.

Still, there is a lot of encouragement and inspiration for positive reflection here, and I think anyone would be better off for giving it a read!

Many thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review.