Make Knitting And Crochet Your Art

Posted by
Kelly Gilliam
Jul 10, 2006

I want to take a moment to speak to all my fellow knitter and crocheters.

I want you to pick up the pointy sticks, pick up the hooks, pick up the yarn, and create. Create like you've never created before. Perhaps working with yarn and needles makes you feel more comfortable than working with paint and a paintbrush; perhaps it makes you feel safer because you aren't trying to be "an artist" (an incredibly heavy word laden with meaning - good and bad). Perhaps it's something that just let's you relax, your mind can wander, you enter a Zen like state.

Whatever it is that drives you to knit or crochet, embrace it, and create. Creating beautiful lace shawls, warm comfortable sweaters, and cozy slippers are all excellent reasons to create. But perhaps, you can take another step. Perhaps you can create something that isn't traditionally created with yarn and sticks (or hooks!). Perhaps you can re-create a bit of yourself. Perhaps you can create randomness to create form. Perhaps you can create simply to create.

Whether you create for warmth, or passion, or simply to have something to do, never fear to look beyond the basic elements of yarn and sticks. Never fear to think of yourself as having just as much importance as the painter, or the illustrator or the sculptor. Knitting and crochet are crafts, but they are also art. They are art simply because you see it as art, not because anybody else deems it so. What does your art say about you?