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  • November 25, 2024 2 min read 2 Comments

    Thanksgiving is here this weeka perfect time to think about all the things we’re grateful for. But as we know, gratitude is so much more than a once-a-year reflection—it’s an ongoing practice. 

     

    Gratitude isn’t about ignoring life’s challenges, but rather about acknowledging the good alongside the difficult. It's about finding moments of joy and appreciation even in the midst of hardship.  Gratitude as a way of seeing our lives and surroundings in deeper, richer colors. This doesn’t always happen automatically, especially with our busy lives and distractions everywhere. Gratitude needs to be intentional, and fortunately for us, knitting is a perfect way to bring mindfulness and gratitude into our everyday lives. 


    There’s something magical in knitting’s repetitive rhythm.  Making each stitch, focusing on the motion and the feel naturally pulls us into the present.  Knitting is an important form of self care that offers a much needed quiet escape as well as a perfect way to reflect and savor moments from each day.


    Each stitch holds a little bit of our day’s experience. As we knit, we can think back over what the day brought—conversations, small wins, little kindnesses, or even the challenges we overcame. In this way, knitting can become a time for gentle reflection, allowing us to pause and appreciate even the smallest things. It’s a chance to feel gratitude for the warmth of a morning coffee, for a thoughtful text from a friend, or maybe just for that cozy time with a beautiful color of yarn. 


    This Thanksgiving, as we gather with friends and family, let’s think about gratitude not just as something to express on one day, but as something we can weave into our lives all year. It doesn’t take much, just a few moments with your knitting each day. Even a couple of rows can hold all the thoughts and moments you want to remember, letting your project become a story of gratitude, bit by bit.  


    So, as you pick up your needles, let each stitch remind you of the small joys, of moments shared, and the simple beauty that’s often right in front of us. Knitting in this way brings us back to the things that truly matter, one stitch at a time.

    Warmly,
    Ellen

    ps. I think the idea of daily reflection and gratitude is part of the power behind the temperature blanket project.  It's about seeing and capturing our daily gratitude as much, if not more, than it is about seeing the weather. If you would like to begin an annual practice like, the Temperature Blanket project may be just what you need ❤️

    2 Responses

    Kelly McGowan
    Kelly McGowan

    November 27, 2024

    couldn’t agree more with all of the above, i’m astonishingly lucky to be surrounded by people who understand how much time it takes to make something beautiful, which makes it easy to carry along an invisible strand of love and gratitude to work in right alongside the physical yarn.

    as a meditative calming practice, it’s always reminded me a little bit of the method for sealing radioactive byproducts into a stable, inert carrier medium like glass or ceramic – whatever’s gone wrong in your life that day to leave toxic residue behind in your mind/heart/spirit, knitting is a way to drain it off one stitch at a time and neutralize it through the combination of a soothing motion, an affirmation of your own skill, a joyful texture, and the time set aside to actually work through your upset instead of bottling it up to deal with never. i don’t think i’m exaggerating much by calling it a loadbearing survival skill at this point XD

    happy holidays and best wishes to the crazy for ewe crew, and a huge thank-you for being such an important part of my life for the last going-on ten years 💜

    Donna W Bohmfalk
    Donna W Bohmfalk

    November 26, 2024

    Ellen all of your words of wisdom are always valuable and appreciated. However, this particular post has really hit home with me. Your words are inviting and draw me in to consider the joy of knitting and the reflection of each day throughout my life. I love doing little things for people that hopefully put a smile of their face, a kind but meaningful word, a card or just a text filled with love and gratitude. Thank you for sharing the joy of knitting in a way I had not considered. This holiday season I am incredibly thankful for you. May God abundantly bless you and your family during this priceless time of year.
    PS …… I’m going to need a red for my temperature blanket for all the days over 105 or 110 here on the gulf coast!

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