The Shop on Blossom Street

I might be 30 years old, but a girl never outgrows the need for her mother.

When your entire world is unraveling, you tend to crave order, and I found it in knitting. In fact, I’ve even read that knitting can lower stress more effectively than meditation.

The yarn forms the stitches, the knitting forges the friendships, the craft links the generations.” —Karen

The yarn forms the stitches, the knitting forges the friendships, the craft links the generations.” —Karen Alfke, “Unpattern” designer and knitting instructor LYDIA HOFFMAN

The repetition of weaving the yarn around a needle and then forming a stitch creates a sense of purpose, of achievement, of progress. When your entire world is unraveling, you tend to crave order, and I found it in knitting.

People who say they don’t have enough patience to knit are precisely those who could most improve their lives by learning how!” —Sally Melville,

Her case worker had once suggested knitting as a means of anger management.