Tag: wooden knitting needles

The Joy of Stitch

Summer in the backyard or walking the talk

Christiane Berghoff

Resting in my backyard, knitting my summer shawl, quit music , a coffee and the dog under the table.

sometimes it take a bit of mental discipline to actually follow and do what I know to be beneficial for me, such as quite times.

the summer appears to be a time full of activities, swimming in the bay, dog walking, taking teenager to the beach for barbecues and surfing, Summer festivals, left, right and centre, Penzance just had the LitFest ( more in a separate post about my KnitLit afternoon last Saturday.

It is good to remember those precious moments of sitting still, hands gently moving and breathing ………..

Too hot….
Summer in my backyard
My backyard
Knitting and research reading
Wool and People

Germany and Still Knitting to keep Me sane

Christiane Berghoff

I am in Germany since last Friday, visiting my mother (85 yr) and I am in the great company of my partner Bill and my son Robin (15 yr) .

Bill
Bill

Surely and slowly my English dissolves and Courageous Bill, who is a wonderful English speaker looks at me with great concern as I become more and more not understandable .

 

my mother has minute memories of my school English , Bill does know the polite greetings and phrases and Robin is in theory bi-lingual ( he speaks wonderful German with our friends and there offspring).

 

 

One done, one to do
One done, one to do

 

I am always optimistic when I back for a visit to my mother; I back books to read, diaries to write, maybe even some watercolour paint and a sketch book. This time there is also a book about Deep Ecology for my MA! The time is spend with my mother, going into town , pottering around, going a bit mad with dealing with two languages , you get the picture.

Sorting out the Clematis
Sorting out the Clematis

So what does keep me sane in times like this is Knitting; a project small an simple to keep me and my fraying mind sane!

This time it is a pair of little slippers for my friend Bettina; we are off tomorrow to Minden for three days where my friends Michael and Bettina live with their three quite grown up children !

so the second slipper will be done by Friday night!

Happy Knitting!

P.S. If my grammar and sentence order is ever so slightly odd, read above again !

 

 

The Joy of Stitch

Where do I go from here

Christiane Berghoff
knitting at Krowji
knitting at Krowji

Most of the time it is another shawl, usual triangular.

My nearest and dearest groan:” Not another one!!” and I think: “Oh, yes please!”

Why? I love the action of working with my hand and I want to enjoy it, without being distracted by complicated pattern etc.

I love the feel of wool, my wooden knitting needles and the rhythm I can get into. 

The action of a handcraft like knitting and embroidery brings me right into the moment, centers my attention.

It brings a satisfaction with it which is hard to explain, because it is the slow steady rhythm,

the looking back over the finished stitches, there is no hurry to fulfill a deadline, they are works in progress.