Thursday, December 03, 2020

A Sliver of Life


I wrote this snippet this morning as I picked up the knitting after quite a dry spell and noted immediately how my mood lifted. Note to self: creativity restores your humanity. And our lives are just moments, if we think about life. This was just a moment in my day.

Herewith the sliver:

Knit Me A Scene

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Needles clicking
Clock ticking
Silent birds
In circling herds
Cloud the pond
In the beyond.

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  1. And what gorgeous slivers of beauty they BOTH are. Thank you. I firmly believe we NEED beauty. All of us.

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    1. Yes I need more of an infestation of beauty regularly, EC!

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  2. I like the way the bottom three colours blend together. Is that a scarf?

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    1. It's a cushion River, one of those slender pillar type ones for a great niece who just redecorated her room. Using up scraps.

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  3. I had a mentor/boss many decades ago who was a closet knitter. I caught him knitting by accident one day and he was quite taken aback. He however explained that he used it to destress and get "his bearings back" and I was quite impressed. Now, after all these years, you say that knitting lifted your mood up!

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    1. Totally Ramana. I remember sitting in the London Tube one day and got to chatting with two male knitters who told me they had used it to quite smoking and got totally hooked. A male friend of my Grandgirl's is a fabulous knitter. It's about time we abolished gender stereotyping everything.
      Knitting is a meditation.

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  4. You have your yarn and needles. I have my violin and sonata. We cheer up the way we can, don't we?

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    1. So true Gigi, the most successful of the pandemic isolators are those who are creative, not matter what its form.

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  5. Knitting is hypnotizing, like the birds going round and round. Even a complex Aran, once you have the pattern established, or a lacy k2tog.

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    1. It's a great way of achieving serenity or a kind of nirvana Joanne, especially when the work displays itself.

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  6. Thanks for this sliver of beauty. Knitting is for everybody. Even my father knew how to knit :)

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    1. My father taught me Charlotte when I was seven as my mother was busy with the littles.

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  7. Imagine all the thoughts that go along with each stitch . A whole story in one piece.

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    1. You are so right GP. So many stories, thoughts and memories with each row.

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  8. I think it was in the book, No Idle Hands - the Social History of Knitting, that I read of a gal whose mother had dementia. Every day she would give her mother a small piece of knitting just to relax her. A good book that I passed on to another knitter. I seem to pick needles up every winter and then think I am going to get something done for a Christmas present. I never leave enough time. But my grandaughter texted me she wanted socks for Christmas - could you make some, she asked. Thrilled I am at having a nice simple knitting project which will actually get finished. My mother came from the north of Scotland and I am forever grateful she taught me to knit!

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  9. Yes, it is an amazing mind fix and not enough written about such crafts like embroidery (my mother was amazing) and crochet - a great niece has recently picked that up and is so creative.
    S0 lovely your granddaughter has asked you to knit her socks.
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  10. My daughter has taken up knitting so look forward to what she creates. Will have to direct her to some knitting bloggers here for inspiration as her skills develop if she continues knitting.

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