Zen Knitting

This has been sparked by a question that someone asked on Ravelry in that she had been going through a rough patch but the yarn, colours, patterns, yarn stores and projects made her feel calmer and put a smile on her face.

This got me thinking why yarn and fibre arts seem to have this effect on so many of us.

In short I think it is because yarn makes absolutely no demands on us - it just is. We choose to create or not, we can just look or touch, we can do nothing with it if we want.

I like this idea that I have a cupboard full of philosophical yarn and will muse more on this