Knitting Heaven and Earth: Healing the Heart with Craft

Susan Gordon Lydon's groundbreaking book The Knitting Sutra offered a new way for knitters to look at their craft--as a healing and meditative endeavor instead of a granny hobby or an indulgent pastime. The first book without knitting patterns to capture the knitting audience, it has been widely imitated, but no other book has endured so well. And the idea of knitting as meditation has caught on--it is often cited as the new yoga. With Knitting Heaven and Earth Lydon again breaks new ground, this time following the emotional ties that become bound up in her handicrafts. The new book was inspired by Lydon's advancement as a knitter. As her stitches grew finer, she found that her life came into focus and her emotional wounds began to heal. When faced with a series of wrenching events-a heartbreaking romance, the death of her father, a devastating diagnosis of breast cancer--Lydon found new reserves of strength in knitting. Through it all, the skeins of sumptuous yarn and colorful thread helped her make sens...