Crochet Saved My Life Quotes

“it wasn’t just in the comfort of my crochet corner that color blossomed. I began to notice color in other places again. I noticed the tone of a friend’s skin color because I wanted to make her a scarf and wanted to choose colors that would flatter her. I noticed the colors in the skirt of a passerby because I liked the pattern and wanted to create something similar. Before I knew it I was noticing the blue in the sky, the blue in my boyfriend’s eyes, in a way that I simply hadn’t noticed in a very, very long time.”
― Kathryn Vercillo, Crochet Saved My Life

“Nessa explained that depression caused her to feel like her body was lying to her and she ultimately decided she had to look to sources around her that had never lied –”
― Kathryn Vercillo, Crochet Saved My Life

“A week later, I was struggling through a scarf. I made a mess of it, randomly adding stitches, dropping stitches, then adding even more. When I showed up with this tangle of wool, Jen pulled it off the needle and all my mistakes were miraculously gone. Unlike life, at least this new life of mine – in which I was forced to keep moving forward through the mess it had become – knitting allowed me to start over again and again, until whatever I was making looked exactly like I wanted it to look.”
― Kathryn Vercillo, Crochet Saved My Life

“Lambert believes that we have an innate need to do hands-on work that produces tangible results and that this could actually be an antidote to many forms of depression.”
― Kathryn Vercillo, Crochet Saved My Life

“It was immensely helpful to me at the time to remind myself that I could not solve THIS BIG PROBLEM (whatever I felt like the problem was) and that my only concern right then needed to be finishing the scarf in my hands because that was something I did have control over and could do.”
― Kathryn Vercillo, Crochet Saved My Life

“When you look at someone on a bus who is sobbing or even just sitting there dejectedly, you see them differently than you would see someone who is productively crocheting away. Knowing this about yourself can make you feel more competent and sane just by virtue of the fact that you’ve armed yourself with your crochet and know that at least to the outside world you don’t look like a lunatic who is about to freak out because there are too many people on the bus and what if the bus doesn’t stop where it’s supposed to and how are you going to talk to the people at the event that you’re taking the bus to in the first place. All of that craziness may still be happening in your mind but to the casual observer you look like someone who is just crocheting something on a bus.”
― Kathryn Vercillo, Crochet Saved My Life

“In fact you tell me that the perception of you by others is turned on its head when you take out your knitting or stitching in public – you’re no longer seen as someone who’s having difficulties, but rather as someone who has a wonderful skill; no longer disabled, but able.”
― Kathryn Vercillo, Crochet Saved My Life

“It didn’t matter that the scarves weren’t even all that special or great or that I was making far too many to actually keep and had no idea what I was going to do with them. I didn’t ever think that far. I thought only about the fact that for that moment I was working on something. I was creating something.”
― Kathryn Vercillo, Crochet Saved My Life