Brenda86 said:
loreta said:
For me knitting is a sort of meditation. I am absolutely sure that our grand-mothers were meditating while knitting. Ourselves also. I remember when I use to knitting during my young years, it calmed me and permit me concentration and insight. During World War II many, many soldiers on convalescence were knitting in hospitals and now I understand why: knitting is a god tranquilizer.
It is an art, too. And very beautiful. I have a sweater made by my paternal grand-mother since 30 years and it is almost new. She was very good knitting. She was also an expert doing bears and since then I love bears. :)
This is making me think maybe I will say the POTS in my head while I knit to add to it as, yes, it is very calming and stress relieving and feels like a sort of meditation - as long as the pattern isn't too complicated anyway!
You know, even if the pattern is complicated, and there are some patterns that are really, really difficult, the concentration is so hard that it is a sort of meditation. Or mindfulness. Our grandmothers were not mathematicians but they were very good with creativity that necessitated counting, measuring, dividing, summing, multiplying.... etc. So I see more and more that knitting is not just an art by itself but much, much more!