Hey everyone, it's Anne. Wait a sec. Let me just put down my knitting. So, it's December, and I know all you makers out there are busy making, like me. Our hands are deep in yarn or clay, soap, candle wax, wood shaving, melted metal. I don't know, whatever your craft demands.

So this seems like the perfect time to share our most popular show from 2022,

Forged by Hand, a Celebration of Life and Craft.

Enjoy.

Okay, so where was I knit two, pearl one.

Wisconsin Public Radio.

It's to the best of our knowledge.

I'm Anne Strange Champs.

Music Here in the 21st century, there are a lot of old crafts we don't have much use for anymore.

Blacksmithing, wood turning, spinning, basket making.

But funny thing, as our world gets more and more virtual, traditional skills are starting to look better and better

to a lot of people.

My family and I, we do fur trade reenactments.

Meet Sarah Downman.

We live in a tent on certain weekends with a whole bunch of other people who live in tents and everybody dresses like at 1798.

All the women are like, I just sewed this new corset.

What do you think?

It's just very. And the guys are all like,

let's go black powder hunting. And at first, when we first started doing it, even my good

friends were like, huh, that's a lifestyle choice. It was very, like, now half of them are like,

we have a tent too, and can we join in and can

we come to it? And so that right there, even in that niche, there's interest, real authentic

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