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Title: Zen and the Art of Knitting: Exploring the Links Between Knitting, Spirituality, and Creativity by Bernadette Murphy ISBN: 1-58062-654-8 Publisher: Adams Media Corporation Pub. Date: September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (12 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Put into words what I had been thinking
Comment: Since I have rediscovered knitting, I have thrown myself into it wholeheartedly, nearly rivaling my obsession with books. In Zen and the Art of Knitting, I found a way to meld my two obsessions with wonderful results! I had felt that there was some sort of mind/body connection between knitting and meditation, but not being the contemplative sort, it took this book to draw the parallels for me and confirm my suspicions. I especially liked the chapter about teaching knitting to first graders as part of the Waldorf School program (believing it teaches concentration and number manipulation). After reading that chapter, I wanted to organize knitting classes in my youngest son's classroom (and I still may)! I have been encouraging nearly everyone I meet to take up needles and learn to knit. I am going to have encourage them to read this book as well!
Rating: 5
Summary: Very Glad I Read This Book
Comment: So many people go through the motions in life, well Ms. Murphy brings to life the motions in knitting. She looks at an age-old art form and gives a wonderful new meditative spin to it. I was impressed with the breadth of interviews that are woven throughout the book, from a missionary in Africa, to a social worker, to professional women, to people using knitting as physical therapy. You get to appreciate the stories shared of the history and community of knitting, with a focus on the psychological and emotional benefits this craft provides. I was even suprised to learn about the knitting revival among young women and some celebrities who have given it a higher profile, so knitting isn't just for your grandmother anymore.
The day I had finished reading this book, a woman I work with noticed the book and asked to look at it. She just wanted to check it out, but she started reading the introduction and then moved into chapter one, I was getting worried she wasn't going to give it back. She finally handed it to me and said she was go to have to go out and buy her own copy. I am sure other people are going to have the same kind of impression.
Rating: 5
Summary: I am one of those "creative"types
Comment: Before writing this review, I looked over the others that had been written. It seems that many people are buying this book assuming that they will receive knitting tips, patterns, etc. Please review the title CLOSELY before purchasing the book; it says everything. I am a working mother, nurse, wife. For me, my time to craft {I crochet, knit, cross stitch} is my time to reconnect with myself and my inner dreams of spending my days making things for other people to wear and enjoy. Bernadette Murphy touched on this beautifully in this book. Enthralled with celebrities-well yeah, she lives near Hollywood, what do you expect? It's the same with anyone who lives in New York City! There have been many articles recently about women rediscovering their true feminine roots and this book explores this throughly. Unless you craft only for profit, and I mean, it can only mean profit for you, anyone who follows these arts are touched, spritually and mentally, by what their hands create. That is what this book is about.
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Title: KnitLit : Sweaters and Their Stories...and Other Writing About Knitting by Linda Roghaar, Molly Wolf ISBN: 0609808249 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 24 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Knitting Sutra: Craft as a Spiritual Practice by Susan G. Lydon ISBN: 0062512021 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 14 February, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Knit Stitch (The Knitting Experience, Book 1) by Sally Melville, Alexis Xenakis, Xrx Press ISBN: 1893762130 Publisher: XRX Books Pub. Date: 15 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Knitting Goddess: Finding the Heart and Soul of Knitting Through Instruction, Projects, and Stories by Deborah Bergman ISBN: 0786885300 Publisher: Hyperion Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Stitch 'N Bitch: The Knitter's Handbook by Debbie Stoller ISBN: 0761128182 Publisher: Workman Publishing Company Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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