Knitting ♥

Hi classmates, today I’m gonna talk you about a kind of art I practice as a hobby, and that’s knitting. I’m pretty sure everyone relate knitting with their grandmothers, or old people sitting on a rocking chair, covered with a blanket. Well, let me tell you that this kind of handcrafting is a very good stress reliever and helps to be more focused and creative.

Yes, it's a Dobby amigurumi. Dobby is a free elf :) 

It’s complicated to think about the knitting prominent exponents, but instead of that I think I’ll write about the different types of things someone could do with knitting. For example, it is common knowledge that the people wear knitted clothes, but you can also knit things to decorate your house, useful things like pencilcases and messenger bags, and if you are interested in crochet, you can knit amirugumis, a Japanese invention which is about creating little knitted animals, even though in the present you can knit anything as an amigurumi.

I like to knit because, as I said before, I practice it as a sort of therapy, but I also like it because it gives you the chance to make things that identifies you. There aren’t two equal handmade knitted pieces; each knitter shows their own personality on the pieces they knit. I think it’s important for our generation to recover this tradition, because with the clothes made in machines we, as a society, had lost the idea of having a exclusive thing, not just something you can buy in a very expensive store but a thing that has your own spirit on it, and no one can copy it.