While creating stitches is an integral and important part of the knitting process, so is undoing stitches; whether you undo one stitch at a time (tinking) or undo several rows or rounds at once (frogging). Understanding how a stitch is formed helps to better...
There are many reasons people take up knitting and many of those reasons are the ways in which knitting improves your life. Meknitations is a whole series of posts that encourage think about your knitting, the tools and materials you use and how it all affects you and...
The warm weight of your project sitting on your lap can be comforting. It can be like a balm to sooth you as you relax into your knitting. Focus on and enjoy the sensation of your project growing heavier and coming closer to completion as it sits on your lap. Notice...
Use as many senses as you can when you interact with your knitting. While I don't recommend you taste your yarn, you can use all four other senses: look at your yarn, feel your yarn, listen to the yarn as you Take a moment to really smell your yarn, particularly if it...
When we knit, we rarely pay attention to all that your needles and the yarn do as you make even a single stitch. We just make the stitches automatically as our minds think about other things. Instead of doing that today, slow your knitting right down and pay attention...
How your knitting needles sound may not have a profound effect on your knitting (unless you are knitting in an otherwise silent room), but that sound is a part of the whole knitting experience. When you pay attention to the tiny details of life and of knitting, you...
How your yarn feels makes a big difference in your knitting experience so it's important to explore it. This is your chance to explore how the yarn feels as it moves through your fingers as you knit. This MeKnitation is one of a series of short knitting meditations to...