Friday always seems to need a little bonus to end the working week so we’ve decided to add a little fun!
Randomly, but more weekly than not, we’ll be adding some neat give-aways to our blog to celebrate with you some of the bounty here at Studio Chic Knits!
And today, is a perfect day, to show a little luv…
T.H.I.S.
We found a couple of TART-y skeins of Madelinetosh DK in our stash from the sample making of our Derica Kane style and we’d like to celebrate Valentine’s day with you!
{{Just leave a comment on this post telling us “Why I LOVE Knitting” and we will random draw next Friday to giveaway these lovely skeins…}} … Comments closed – stand-by for winner announcement …
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Bonne Marie
I love knitting because I love to play with yarn, and I love to be able to whip out a hat or scarf if someone needs a little warmth.
Because it’s WARM
Knitting keeps me involved in a sensual experience . While my hands are moving through the yarn, my mind is more able to keep grounded. It’s something I have done for over 50 yrs. I learned to knit on 2 metal nail spikes when I was 10 and earning a badge for Girl Scouts. Now I knit on Rosewood.
I love knitting because it calms me and allows me to express my creativity.
I feel in tune with all the people the world over who have ever knitted when I knit. I also love to handle the fiber and think my thoughts while making a lovely garment.
I love knitting because it makes me feel good when I make someone happy with one of my knitted creations…
Knitting soothes my savage breast…or beast.
I love knitting because it gives me a sense of calm and is a great way to begin and end each day.
I love knitting because I am impatient and when I am knitting I am happy and patient and can wait for anything like the plane or my husband when he is shopping in the farm store.
Knitting is one of my creative outlets; my other is cooking and baking. Unlike cooking, knitting allows me to make and give non-fattening gifts!
Knitting is my go-to: it provides a creative outlet, de-stresses, is social, challenging, fun, practical, therapeutic, tactile. I could go on and on!
I love poking a stick through a loop, wrapping a thread round it, and pulling a new loop through. There are so many other aspects to knitting that pique my interest, but that basic movement has embedded itself in my soul.
I love knitting because it relaxes my body, stimulates my mind and opens my heart. Zen with a wooly souvenir.
I Love knitting because I like to try new things and end up with something pretty and useful.
I love knitting because I find it absorbing, fascinating, soothing, tactile and warm. And that’s just a start.
Fifty six years of knitting and still learning .
Take out my needles and in moments there will appear another yarn fanatic or a new convert
and another friend made.
You are never alone with your knitting.
I love knitting NOW, because I remember knitting in the 80’s when there were practically no yarn stores or decent knitting magazines, because everyone was wearing polyester and I didn’t know anybody in Texas that liked to knit and if they did, they wouldn’t knit with wool, even if they could get their hands on it. Since those dark days before the internet, we can now shop for yarn and fabulous patterns 24/7 in our jammies, or we can attend a Stitch n Bitch IRL and we can take a class from a genuine certified Master Knitter or we can search google for a YouTube tutorial of a new technique. We can start a knitting blog and/or read other knitting blogs and share our fiber lust with others across the globe. I LOVE knitting, because after 45 years, I’m pretty good at it and I still haven’t learned everything. I have run out of room to store hand-knit sweaters, socks, scarves and have made a hat or something for almost every friend, coworker, new baby that I know. I still want to knit and I find new patterns every day, that I simply must live long enough to make and incredible yarns that I never could have dreamed of way back in the Before Time. I love knitting so much, I got a knitting tattoo for my 50th birthday. Hell, at 50, even my mama didn’t care. I don’t know how it’s possible to love knitting more, but I must say that red yarn is the most beautiful red I have ever seen. One day I hope to knit with something like it.
Besides the relaxation knitting provides me, I primarily love it because there is SO much potential in a skein of yarn.
Happy Valentine’s Day, Bonne Marie!
I come from a family of knitters, on my Mom’s side it goes back for generations. Some of my best friends I have met through knitting. Some of my best feel good moments come from the accomplishments of the kids in my knitting club. I would be totally lost without it.
I knit because I love the various challenges, techniques, yarns, companionship (when knitting with others), and the feeling of accomplishment on a project done well — plus it’s great therapy for stressed or out-of-sorts days.
Knitting calms me, I love to knit for babies and little ones. I like to have a stash of yarn so I don’t have to go shopping when the knitting bug hits me. You can never have enough yarn on hand.
Why do I knit? Color, texture, color, new clothes, color, fun, color!
I love knitting because it relaxes me, and my weekly knit group is my weekly therapy. I don’t know what I would do without them. I also love knitting because it’s my connection with my grandmothers, as they both were knitters! Thank you for the giveaway!
I love knitting because it relaxes me, gives me something to do with my hands, and produces beautiful things!
I love to knit because Chic Knits has such wonderful patterns that fit so well!!
What’s not to love about knitting? It soothes my soul, keeps my hands busy, keeps me out of trouble most of the time and results in beautiful warm things for friends and family to enjoy. And me, too!
Why do I love knitting? Because I CREATE! I can take a string and turn it into something! I can make something special for my daughter or my mom or whoever. Something is 100% made for them, from picking out the pattern to the yarn and all the time and love put in to it. It’s awesome.
Because knitting is better than drinking. Almost. No. It is.
It keeps me from snacking in front of the TV! Plus, who doesn’t love sweatery goodness.
I love knitting because I love the hats,scarves and sweaters I make and give many to my daughters. They receive many compliments on my gifts and this makes me feel good.
I love knitting because it has helped me to get through some difficult times in my life. It relaxes me and allows me to see things through a different perspective.
Because it makes me feel good to make beautiful things with my hands
Because I love gifting things I made myself
Because I love touching fibers and transforming them into something wearable
Because ….
Because I need something to do with my hands and mind to relax.
I love knitting because of the colors and textures of the yarn. I love watching projects immerge. I love the peace knitting brings me.
I am a scientist and engineer. I also have arthritis. Knitting keeps my hands flexible. It caters to the mad scientist by allowing me to do all sorts of things with the fibers and to the engineer when I can design and build my knitting projects. And I live in a cold place where sweaters, socks, hats, mittens, scarves are always welcomed gifts.
I love to knit to relieve stress. Knitting takes my mind off whatever might be worrying me.
I love knitting because I love the hats,scarves and sweaters I make and give many to my daughters.
They receive many compliments and this makes me feel good!
I love knitting because it is relaxing. When I was a little girl, my grandmother always knitted and sewed. As I grew older she taught me more and more until one day I began being able to do it on my own. It is truly something special to me because everytime I knit I think of my grandmother, and it takes me back to my youth. It is one of the highlights of my week when I rewind from the stress of my classes while away from home at school!
I love knitting because it makes unpleasant waiting time more pleasurable! That and I love wool and using my creativity.
Knitting has helped me through some difficult times in my life not the least of which is the current agonizing death of a very dear sister. She was diagnosed with PPA, a type of Alzheimer’s disease that begins with the loss of communication skills. I have knitted beside her when she could no longer talk and now I knit at her bedside as she is slowly passing from this realm to the next. Something beautiful will always come from knitting (though my skills are rudimentary) and it is life affirming.
Knitting satisfies me in so many ways … the feel of the fibers on the hand, the repetition of each stitch, the building of something larger … texture, color, form and finished garments. I love it all!
I love knitting because it allows me to relax and take my mind off everything else in my life. It’s a breath of fresh air :)
Love to knit for the process and unique garments produced at the end of that process!
I love knitting because, because, because — I just love knitting! The yarn, the colors, the textures and the treasured friendships I have because I knit!
I love knitting because it keeps my hands busy with color and softness and fun. The best part? I can always say, oh cleaning will wait, I need this cowl NOW!
I love knitting because it is relaxing. I can do it alone or with friends; I can do it for 3 minutes or a 3 hours. I can take it with me no matter where I travel. And I get to create neat items.
I love knitting because it fills up those little bits of time that might be wasted. You know the ones. That 15 minute wait at the doctor’s office. The 20 minute bus ride. The 8 hour airplane ride. The 2 hour layover at the airport. I love how knitting calms the spirit, just like meditation. But, the part of knitting that I absolutely love is that all those might be wasted minutes turn into lovely hand knit sweaters, cowls, fingerless mitts and socks.
BTW, MT yarns the BEST! All that lovely Toshiness running through your fingers makes life wonderful. Thanks for the great giveaway.
I love knitting because it gives me a chance to “share” myself with others.
I can knit alone; I can knit with friends. I can knit in the garden and by the fire. I can take my knitting with me so I am always creating, producing and never bored!
I love every aspect of it. Organizing my needles, my yarn, looking for patterns, converting patterns to match the yarn I want to use, browsing yarn stores(!) and touching the yarn and picking up a skein to sniff, spinning my own yarn, dyeing it, skeining it, beating it against the fence after washing it, figuring out new patterns/stitches, leafing through books and magazines, and then finally sitting down to knit – or ripping and reworking something that didn’t quite suit me, I even love that!