While I was cruising around the countryside I listened to
audiobooks, something that I've been enjoying over the last couple of
years. I was listened to Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stow. I was happily knitting away and listening to this tragic tale of
slavery and freedom, when I was much surprised to come across a
character, knitting. In fact, a couple of the characters knit.
Gratifyingly, knitting is associated with rest, and calmness. One
of the characters, Ruth is described as "calmly
going on with her knitting" during a difficult situation. Another,
Ophelia, knits "stockings which she kept as a specific against what Dr.
Watts
asserts to be a personal habit of Satan when people have idle hands".
She is described as "knitting energetically", and pulls out her knitting
when she is having an unpleasant conversation. She knits while she
muses, and she is described as laying down her
"ever ready knitting work." Another character, Aunt Dorcas, is described
as knitting peacefully. Rather gratifyingly, all the characters who
knit are positive and good people within the context of the book. They
use their knitting just as I do, as something
to do with their hands, as a way of being productive and to calm
themselves down.
And,
here's a picture of the pieces of my Spice Road. I've washed it, but
haven't had a chance to sew it up yet. As intended, the gauge definitely
changed in the wash! Now, rather than being scared it's too big I'm
worried it might be too small.
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