Zen And The Art Of Knitting: Exploring the Links Between Knitting, Spirituality, and Creativity by Bernadette Murphy

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In Zen and the Art of Knitting, Bernadette Murphy explores how knitting fits into the large scheme of life itself as:

*Meditation
*Creative expression
*A way to cure writer's block
*A gift to express love
*A way for children to develop fine motor skills
*A way to connect generations, past and present

Throughout this magnificent work, readers find practical advice, including a knitted stitch per chapter and a basic pattern in the appendix. For serious knitters, casual hobbyists, creative thinkers, and those seeking to discover an unexplored spiritual channel, Zen and the Art of Knittingg is a unique work that will be treasured for years to come.

Bernadette Murphy is an essayist, fiction writer, book critic, and a knitter of seventeen years. She is regularly published in the Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, the San Francisco Chronicle, Newsday, and Book Magazine. Ms. Murphy, who teaches creative writing at the UCLA Extension Writers Program, lives in Los Angeles.

What People Are Saying

David L. Ulin
Bernadette Murphy explores the now-radical notion that in the smallest, most mundane gestures, we may find a kind of grace. For her, knitting is a spiritual practice, and this book traces the arc of her discovery with openness and faith.

Tara Ison
Murphy reminds us how the slow gentle beauties of life are indeed within our grasp, that what we take into our hands, we take into our heart and soul. A wise, illuminating book, for knitter and non-knitter alike.

Michelle Huneven
The book is full of lore, technical tips, colorful needle-wielding characters, and, ahem, plain old good yarns. Knitting, in Murphy's hands, is more than a metaphor; it is tangible, hands-on proof of the inner-connectedness of all living things.

Gayle Brandeis
Zen and the Art of Knitting is crafted like a handmade sweater, with great texture and beauty and love. Bernadette Murphy artfully knits together creativity, spirituality, and daily life, letting us see the rich and wondrous fabric that connects all of it, all of us, 'in a piece.' This is a book readers will want to wrap themselves up in again and again for comfort, for inspiration, for affirmation of the healing, centering, power of the art.

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