The Point

…this is Faith by Louisa Harding and I knit it for Adrienne, friend and fellow warrior of the female state, for her 50th birthday.  Although she lives at the other side of the world, and has weathered trials that would flatten most people, she still managed to provide an awful lot of those “unquantifiable cooperative links that make life bearable” (see quotes) in my life.

“What the knitter sets out to knit is not necessarily what he or she ends up knitting, and sometimes that works out well". 

“A series of seemingly inconsequential actions eventually amount to something substantial, no matter how imperfect…”

“Knitting is a metaphor for the unquantifiable cooperative links that make lives bearable, but which may also elude overly logical analysis…"

“A knitted item is an unsung song of time, work, persistence, and above all of love and good intentions… “

“An Attempt to Examine Knitting Psychology”  K. Duggan

Couldn’t have put better myself actually.