KNITTING I Made This Big and Beautiful Bag With an Easy Trick

KNITTING IS BENEFICIAL FOR HEALTH Bimla,House No.1008,Housing Board Colony,Sector 15-A,Hisar,Haryana,India. Being an avid knitter and researcher I joined on a range of craft magazines. One of my jobs was to look after the letters pages. This entailed reading the large amount of letters which came into the office every day. About 98% of these talked about the therapeutic benefits of craft but in particular knitting. Then I asked our president of NGO Dr.K.Malhotra, who always indulge in knitting in her spare time Oh! that is my ‘light-bulb’ moment said Dr.K.Malhotra– Knitting as she told me …….. Days after my quarry.. I realised I’d stumbled across something potentially very important. I wondered whether knitting could be used as an activity from the arm chair which could act as a springboard to other activities – to motivate those people I saw on my community rounds, to bring them back into the world – that was my starting point. Therapeutic benefits of knitting As a physiotherapist specialising in neurological conditions I have been intrigued by the movements of knitting and their potential effect on the brain. The work I’ve done so far strongly suggests that the bilateral, cross midline, rhythmic repetitive, automatic nature of the movements are important. For example, a high percentage of the narratives I’ve collected attribute the feeling of deep calm to the rhythmic nature of the movements. The state of mind reached is described as meditative-like even by people who regularly meditate. We carried out a survey of over 100 knitters with NGO and we found the more frequently people knitted the calmer and happier they said they felt. 81% of respondents to our survey said they felt happier during and after knitting. 54% of respondents who were clinically depressed said knitting made them feel happy or very happy – that’s quite some achievement. How is knitting used as a tool for wellbeing? Health and wellbeing is about so much more than isolated symptoms and medication – it’s about the whole person and their environment. Therapeutic Knitting can help people address a wide range of issues to improve general wellbeing. KNITTING-EQUATION and Dr.K.Malhotra’s route into knitting. My mother taught me at seven but I didn’t do very much knitting after that – I think most women my age learned from their mothers or grandmothers. Like many new mothers I did a little knitting for my four children but then did very little after that. I picked it up again when I started researching the benefits – I needed to be reasonably proficient to run the group at our NGO, but it’s a bit like riding a bike, once learnt it doesn’t take much to get back in the flow. I use it now to manage my stress levels so I use it therapeutically. I think it’s important to practise what your preach. If you don’t do it yourself how can you expect others to follow your advice? The work you’re doing focuses on the therapeutic benefits of knitting – what type of conditions can it be used to help with? Anyone could benefit from setting aside 20 minutes every day. Being able to ‘switch off’ for a short time every day gives the mind a break and is beneficial to wellbeing. Anyone can use knitting as a portable means of stress management. Use it on your commute to work or during your lunch break if you are a working woman, and as leisure activity if you are a housewife. It has been found that taking your mind off a problem you’ve been dwelling on and doing a relaxing creative activity will often help you to solve that problem – the solution will often just ‘spring’ to mind when the mind’s attention is focused elsewhere. The main conditions that Therapeutic Knitting is used for are: Stress low mood depression mental health problems posttraumatic stress disorder. Must try it out. happy knitting!!!!

Woolen skirt and tunic of my daughter

i crocheted this dress for my daughter in 1980, but i published this dress in 1989 with my son.

yes in the photograph with dress is my son who was 6 years old at that time. my daughter was very big for the dress at that time, after my daughter overgrown for this dress it remained in the wardrobe for 5 years, my son is 5 years younger than my daughter. the yarn was so nice that after using several years it looked as new, that's why  i was able to publish the worn and aged dress in Sarita Hindi magazine. 

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My inspiration today

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knitting

 

There’s something profoundly loving in the act of knitting. Into each and every stitch you can breathe love into a piece of fabric. And people always look so loved wrapped up into a warm cosy piece of knitting.

This gloriously white lacy piece of knitting is my honey shawl.Hisar city  has been unseasonably cool this time in this month  and I found myself at the beginning of February itching to knit something for me. Just for me. Something that I loved that was all mine and unapologetically so.  I will post the photo of the hawal in next post ..

 

Now look at these photos knitting in olden ages.

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 Wife of Charles William Clift at home, knitting, Whaui Street, Vogeltown, Wellington

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RENOVATIONS

Hints for renovating knitted clothes
Purchased knitwear is usually machine knit, consequently it may not be easy to unpick and renovate. You might find it better to cut the fabric up and sew it to make play garments for children’s. The sleeves of a raglan sweater is a soft knit could make a pair of long crawlers for baby. Alternatively, cut the good pieces of knitted fabric up and machine stitch them together to make warm interlinings for bed covers.
Planning ahead
When you are knitting for a growing family think about possible changes to the garment and buy extra yarns for future alterations to waist and sleeve length.
Experienced knitters find the best way of knitting sleeves is to start at the shoulder crown and knit down to the cuffs. In these way, worn or out grown sleeves can be easily unravelled from the cuff edge and re-knitted introducing new yarn to make them longer. Use the some yarn for new cuffs and welt or change to look of the garment entirely with a different colour.
Re-knitting for extra length
This technique works best with stocking stitch, garter stitch and patterns worked on plain and purl ribs. It is diffcult to do on fancy knit patterns.
Note where you will be adding new knitting and work tacking stitch and patterns worked on plain and purl ribs. It is diffcult to do on fancy knit patterns.
Note where you will be adding new knitting and work tacking stitches across the garment. Unpick the seams carefully, enough for you to be able to work easily. Make a note now of any shaping so that you can reproduce the stitches. A good way to do this uses squared graph paper. Count the number of stitches in row, one square will represent each stitch. Every line of squares will be a row of knitting. Mark crosses in the squares where you will be decreasing and diagonal lines where you will be casting off to shape. Number the rows on the graph and use the graph as a re-knitting pattern.
Unpicking
Insert a knitting needle into the loop of the third stitch from the edge. Pull on the stitch until it becomes a loop. Cut the loop and very gently pull the knitting apart along the row. Unravel until you have a row of complete loops on the main section.
Pick up the stitches, checking with your graph pattern to make sure you have picked them all up.
Recycling yarn
Unravel the lower section and wind it into a loose ball. It will have kinks in it and must be steamed or washed to remove them.
Wind the yarn between your thumb and index finger and round your elbow to make a skein. Tie the skien twice. Hang the skein in the steam from a boiling kettle or swish tit in warm, fresh water. Fold the skein in a dry towel to remove excess water. Hang to dry naturally away from feat. Wind into balls for re-knitting.
Re-knitting
If you are not certain of the needle size originally used to knit the garment, knit a test piece first using a similar yarn. You will need to knit a square of at least 10 cm (4 in). Count the number of rows in 5 cm (2 in) and then the number of stitches across 5 cm (2 in). If the re are more than you need, use smaller needles. If less, use a larger size.
Start re-knitting on the picked up stitches, using the recycled yarn. In fact, the new knitting will be upside down but it will not be easily detectable. Introduce the new yarn for the cuff or welt.
For a different look to the garment, you could introduce strips of colour using new yarn immediately, keeping the recycled yarn for the cuff or welt.






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