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Anyone can pick up a pair of needles and a ball of yarn. And everyone can be mindful. The Mindfulness in Knitting casts fresh light on this renowned calming craft, and reveals how the act of knit and purl can be the epitome of conscious living.
Ethical textile artist Rachael Matthews unpicks the threads of this popular pastime to explore how knitting connects us to each other and to the world around us. Through personal anecdote and expert insight, she unravels the true value of what it means to craft, its therapeutic benefits, and the joys of mindful making.
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Rachael Matthews is a true original, a pioneer of the new wave of sociable, expressive and fun knitting that emerged at the turn of the millennium. This book celebrates the practice of hand knitting as a meditative, enlightening and mindful journey through life, one that many can benefit from.
PROFESSOR OF FASHION AND TEXTILE DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY, LONDON COLLEGE OF FASHION
I have been researching the meditative, creative and social benefits of knitting since 2005. This book adds significantly to the conversation and in so doing gives knitting yet another dimension to observe and explore.
FOUNDER OF WWW.STITCHLINKS.COM
This book is a delightful love letter to knitting, and all the many beneficial things that come with it. Rachael perfectly captures the home that the craft gives us and helps deepen the understanding of how we fell in love with it so hard and fast.
EDITOR OF CRAFTIVISM: THE ART OF CRAFT AND ACTIVISM
OTHER TITLES IN THIS SERIES:-
The Art of Mindful Baking
The Art of Mindful Birdwatching
The Art of Mindful Gardening
The Art of Mindful Reading
The Art of Mindful Silence
The Art of Mindful Singing
The Art of Mindful Walking
Einstein and the Art of Mindful Cycling
Galileo and the Art of Ageing Mindfully
Happiness and How it Happens
The Heart of Mindful Relationships
The Joy of Mindful Writing
The Mindful Art of Wild Swimming
The Mindful Man
Mindful Crafting
Mindful Pregnancy and Birth Mindful Travelling
Mindfulness and Compassion
Mindfulness and Music
Mindfulness and Surfing
Mindfulness and the Art of Drawing
Mindfulness and the Art of Managing Anger
Mindfulness and the Art of Urban Living
Mindfulness and the Journey of Bereavement
Mindfulness and the Natural World
Mindfulness at Work
Mindfulness for Black Dogs and Blue Days
Mindfulness for Students
Mindfulness for Unravelling Anxiety
The Practice of Mindful Yoga
Zen and the Path of Mindful Parenting
Meditations on Craft and Calm
Rachael Matthews
From the origins of societys natural evolution, two ancient cultures have emerged, guiding the way for our heads, hearts and hands. One of these cultures is knitting, or to be more descriptive, the addictive habit of forming a soft textile with your hands. The other culture is mindfulness, or, as I like to think of it, a childlike love of hooking up with your inner being, listening to the pattern of your breathing and exploring the flow of intimate thoughts.
Knitting and mindfulness have worked together over millennia to guide us through our growth. The utterly absorbing process of creating textiles provides us with an informal meditation space while connecting us with a heritage we cherish and ultimately a universe we understand.
A S TIMES CHANGE, NEW GENERATIONS knit different things, think different things and fit both practices into different lifestyles. This generations rapid fads, economic downfalls and rising capitalism have called for our indigenous skills to reassert themselves with a passion. We have found ourselves longing to engage with a tangible material and form it into an authentic and functional thing to be proud of. As a hotchpotch of unwanted news images, adverts and social networking gossip buzzes all around us, the truthful heart of humanity whispers to us, Hush! Make something happen yourself! There is plenty of time to sort your head out! The simple life of mindful knitting co-ordinates our heads, hands and hearts, helping our thinking become wider, deeper, freer and ultimately more interesting and creative.
Mindfulness and knitting may have been working together for generations, but it is only recently that the potential of their collaboration as a cure for ills has been confirmed. Scientists have proved that the repetitive action of knitting relaxes us, helps us think positively and can even be a cure for pain. Simultaneously, health officials are recommending mindfulness as a cure for many physical and mental afflictions.
Mindful knitting is here to help us find a joyous sense of awareness, where enslavement to repetitive stress no longer affects us. Even while we are making things, it is so easy to let our minds use us, rather than us use our minds. Our aim with mindful knitting is to create a new, productive and endlessly loving repetition.
Developing a more sedate range of thoughts, we will start to ditch the daily nonsense we usually carry around in our heads. When the mind is churning over rubbish, those thoughts do not dictate who we are, yet they can be all too easy to believe. Letting this rubbish disappear into rows of stylish knitting is a highly sustainable road to self-improvement. With junk binned and a knitting project cast on, we will focus on feeling at one with life, enjoying the company of a time-honoured craft, and the ever-evolving world around us. On this road to enlightenment we will find plenty of places from where true wisdom and culture come. Connecting to nature through ethically made yarns will give us a tactile base for meditation. Introducing our brains to interesting number patterns in stitches, we will be welcomed into the world of mathematics, becoming part of one whole universe with no beginning and no end.
Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment perilous, judgement difficult.
(c.460c.370 BCE)
GREEK PHYSICIAN AND THE FATHER OF MEDICINE
This book is compiled from all the experiences and conversations I have had with creative people since I was shown the joy of making things. I adore books, and in particular books that aim to inspire thinking, so it has been a pleasure to write about what I have learned.
I AM WELL AWARE THAT A BOOK SUCH AS THIS can only be a helpful tool and not a source of real culture, which can only come from the soul. This book is not a creative power, but a conversation to add to those wise provisions of tools that nature has equipped us with. I want the book to be like a telescope or microscope, assisting the study of your creative life, revealing unimagined wonders.
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