Getting Zen with Your Knitting

Because I have ultimate power over here and can do such things, I'm declaring February to be book month at About Knitting. That means I'm going to try, anyway, every day this month, to point you to a knitting book review. The books may be new, or old, but I hope they'll give us a chance to get some discussion going about the wide world of knitting books, which ones you find useful and those you didn't like (remember you can always add your own review to any review on the site by clicking "write a review" next to the star rating on any review page).

Today's selection is Zen and the Art of Knitting by Bernadette Murphy, a book from 2002 that includes essays and reflections on the deeper meaning of knitting. Knitting doesn't always feel relaxing or like a form of meditation, but I'll bet most of us have experience the "zone" when knitting, where time seems to stop, or at least slow down, and perhaps where we feel a connection to other knitters, the world around us or a higher creative power.

Even if you don't think of yourself as a very spiritual person, this book is interesting for the different perspectives that knitters the author interviewed bring to the idea of knitting, creativity and spirituality. It'll make you feel good to be a knitter and might even get you thinking a little more deeply about your knitting "practice."