I have to think of more imaginative titles for my posts... OK: 'I heart Yarn, I heart Yarn Magazines, and I heart knitting' will be the title of this post. I had a lovely Stitch n Bitch meet yesterday. One of the members brought in a magazine called "Knit n Style". It contained an article called 'Mindless Knitting' about using knitting as a form of meditation. Now I've long been telling my doctor that knitting is a form of stress-relief for me. Whilst she agrees to an extent, she argues that yoga or meditation would be more effective as knitting is still engaging my mind and hands. Therefore it is not allowing me a total 'relaxation' - which I clearly need as I am 'highly-strung' to say the least! I believe that knitting can induce a meditating effect - once I get into it I can start to drift and become lost in a zen-like state brought about by the repetitive action of knitting. However, I never really thought about the projects I knit. Un...
....yet so far ;0)
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110 now ...
ReplyDeleteI'll be in by Monday to find you! ;0)
Elaine x
I'm green with envy (good job that green is my favourite colour). Looking forward to hearing all about it, as I reckon I'm still about 10 days away!
ReplyDelete10 now ... *sigh*
ReplyDeletethink I'll have to wait til tomorrow [tues]
so impatient!!
:)