preeety crafty

I was reading applehead’s back posts (I’ve been going through my google reader a little at a time – there are over 400 posts from my 2 month absence) and found both this great blog called beautiful things (blop on over) and a great quote by it’s writer

“One of the things I love about knitting is how you can create these amazing, three dimensional objects out of a single linear thread, in essence, a line. And all this through variations on a single stitch – a loop looped through a loop. And in one tug you can basically unravel the whole thing. A line doesn’t take up three dimensional space. It’s like making something out of nothing. It seems like such an optimistic process, creative in the literal sense, and so elemental. Perhaps that is why it is so healing and restorative a process. Words, for example, seem like much more of a social construct in comparison.”
beautiful things, May 3rd 2007

I think that is the best definition for the why of knitting, crocheting, etc…

It sums up the spirit of the process beautifully…