YOGA of YARN

How to wind your yarn mindfully

Liza is smelling the yarn for her meditation mat project. As a knitter, I find the texture of the yarn I'm knitting with very important. It's the tactile feeling that makes or breaks whether I will use a yarn, more than color sometimes. Each project is different and requires a different kind of yarn. There are times when I'm searching for something oh-so-soft, and others when coarse or the scratchier, the better. Before I even begin a knitting project, I meditate with my yar

A SHORT STORY A few years ago, I flew out to California to film my Creativebug  classes. For one week, I stayed in Berkeley near the studio and filmed three classes, all of which are now live on creativebug.com .  In preparation for my trip, I knit samples of the projects I would be teaching and shipped them to the studio ahead of time. This way, I would have less to carry on the plane. But what is it they say about best laid plans? They often go awry. Well, when I arrived on

3 reasons to be mindful when ball winding

I had the absolute pleasure of chatting with Jen Joyce from the Making App. Which is my favorite place to share what current WIPs and FOs...

Today is a crisp fall day with temperatures below 45 degrees Fahrenheit, whispering autumn winds, and sun shining on fallen leaves. As I...

No matter if you have new yarn or old. Try sitting with it for a bit, bless it, meditate with it, and then go see what you create!

Be it 5 minutes of knitting or yoga, that is all you need to keep up a daily practice. When I first became interested in becoming a yoga...

Surrender and trust the process. If I find I am resisting a new stitch pattern, new yoga pose, or simply sitting in meditation--I remind...