Knitting the Threads of Time by Nora Murphy. New World Library.Every piece of knitting, as with every other work of art or craft, tells a story. There's a story about who the item was made for and why, who created the object and what was happening in their lives and in the world at the time the item was created.
Knitting the Threads of Time by Nora Murphy tells the story of one such project, a sweater she knit for her son during a long Minnesota winter. It also looks back at the beginnings of knitting and other fiber and craft traditions from around the world and draws connections between crafters of the past and those of us presently working to clothe our families and loved ones with warmth from our hands.
The sweater was Murphy's first sweater, and thinking about herself as a link in the chain of crafty women through the ages gave her confidence and inspiration as she embarked on and continued the project. For the rest of us, her musings on the connections between those who first made string and drew it between two needles to make fabric and those of us at work on knitting projects today remind us that knitting is not just about the particular project we are working on, but also a way of continuing a tradition that began thousands of years ago.
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