Growing in Hannah’s Field

Something I have realised this evening that the theme of emotion, emotional memory has more facets for me than I presented this week.  Knitting is so tightly linked to my emotions in many ways:

I was taught to knit by one grandmother (I remember this clearly) and I knit with the tools of the other.  I can’t help but think of them both each time I make something.

I have and do knit to through times of stress, through change, to mull over difficult questions, to slow the pace of my thoughts, a form of meditation.

I embue the things I make with an emotion of their own.  I make items that hold emotional memories for me and for the people I make them for.

Through knitting I have discovered more about myself.