Today, I have chosen three knitting videos for your enjoyment–SEE videos posted below about knitting. The first one is an animated feature about how knitting takes on a life of its own. Sometimes after completing a project, it’s hard to know what to do with yourself it takes transition time–a little like life when you are caught up with something and it ends suddenly. The second is a basic video demonstrating the two stitches, knits and pearls, in the way I recommend starting out. Third, knitting is not just for women!
I started knitting when I found my grandmother’s knitting needles a few months after her death. Ma Whee, as we affectionately called her, was a gleeful character who mostly never left West Texas where she grew up. Her family’s oxcart broke down in the sandhills near the New Mexico border. They didn’t have money to fix it, so they homesteaded there! When her children were small, my mother among them, she and my grandfather had to haul in water in barrels, and light their home with oil lamps. They didn’t have electricity or running water until they moved to town so my mother could start the first grade. Ma Whee was a pillar of strength and loved having company.
I wanted to use those needles that reminded me of this woman I loved so much, so I learned how to knit. I was surprised and delighted when I went to the knitting shop and discovered that the world of knitting has changed and evolved! What a delight. The yarn is lucious and instruction books and patterns are modern, fashionable and fun.
The evolution has been from one of craft to one of art. Example: go to http://www.kaffefassett.com/ for a demonstration of an array of needle arts from Kaffe Fassett, a world renowned designer, expert knitter and needle artist.
