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 yarn to see if it...

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 the first day...