Material Creations: Writing and Handwork

I have added an additional section to the website: Handcraft and the Craft (a link can be found on the left-hand sidebar). I have been weaving lately, knitting like mad and have a couple of embroidered projects to be finished soon. Handwork slows everything down and I find in this age of too much news, too much on facebook to run from, and too much noise, returning to the old arts is a meditative activity. I spent about a two years restoring my loom and this year I am joining in a challenge to knit one pair of a socks a month for a year (along with more small sweaters for my grandchildren and socks for my friends! ). I have a scarf on the loom now that I hope to finish today -- and in the quiet, rhythmic repetition of the shuttle, I will organize the five pages of writing I also want to finish later today.