Knitting is a popular arts and crafts activity. I have tried it several times myself. I learned the basics when I was a child, and then I took it up again as an adult. It’s a meditative activity. I used to do it sometimes in the mornings when I was still groggy as a way of waking up gently. It is very relaxing. My Mom taught me more about knitting and if I stay with her and we knit together she always fixes my mistakes. I have another friend who is a tremendous knitter. She can knit anything. She knitted me a little mouse out of red yarn one year for Christmas.
She and I used to meet at a local pub twice a month and drink beer, talk and knit. It was great fun and she also fixed all my mistakes. I had a Japanese friend whose Mother had been a knitting teacher. I lived close to my friend and she taught me knitting for a while too. She said I was her best student. I would walk the block over to her apartment sometimes and she would fix my mistakes. I don’t know if I will ever be great at fixing my mistakes so I have been lucky in knowing fantastic knitters.
My Japanese friend lent me a bunch of knitting books once but the problem was they were all in Japanese. They had pictures but I still couldn’t completely follow what was going on. This got me thinking that I wished they were in English and that for any interest there is a writers market out there. Especially there is a writers market for online writers open to you if you are good at something and can mingle writing words and taking pictures. I returned my friend’s knitting books after some time because I got much more from having her show me things since she spoke English. I didn’t speak Japanese. I told my friend who liked to drink and knit that she should make a knitting book and earn herself some extra money. She is also a photographer. She said no to that though, she is in school to become an epidemiologist so knitting is just her stress relieving hobby.
