Knitting Does a Body Good

If you're like me, there are a lot of different reasons why you knit. I love to make something out of what other people might consider nothing. There's a great creative release even in following another person's pattern, and even though it still sometimes drives me crazy, knitting is a great way to relieve stress and wind down after a busy day.

I know that when I donate items to charity I'm helping people, but I never really thought of that as being a way that craft can change the world, as Betsy Greer explains it in her book Knitting for Good!

Greer is the founder of Craftivism, so it makes sense that she's thinking about knitting (and crafting in general) as a rather revolutionary thing. From a turning back to the handmade to revising the ideas of what a feminist is and does to actually protesting injustice in the world, knitting can have a very profound effect not just on the knitter, but on the world around him or her.

This book is a very interesting read that might have you thinking about your stitches in a whole new way and that will make you proud to be a crafter.