There are probably as many reasons for people that learn how to knit as there are people who know how to knit. Everyone has a different story. Here is one that is very thoughtful and encouraging. A young lady (a little girl really) started knitting when she was 7 years old. Her mother was her teacher. She readily admits that her first few efforts where terrible. But she kept at it and gradually her knitting improved to the point where she was able to create knitted items that she was proud enough of to give away as gifts.

Well, life got in the way as she grew up and knitting got put aside for other pursuits, like school and boyfriends and a social life. Fast forward to a now young lady with a very ill mother, the same person who had taught her to knit so many years ago. As happens in life, the young lady’s mother passed away of a heart ailment rather unexpectedly. The young lady was naturally upset. After a few weeks of mourning and getting back on her feet, the young lady remembered the knitting craft that her mother had so patiently taught to her. She decided to take it up again to find some comfort in her mother’s passing. As it turns out, the knitting turned into a sort of therapy for her and helped her tremendously in her recovery from the loss of her mother.

Knitting can be enjoyable on many levels. This story shows a whole new therapeutic angle to knitting that helped one young woman through a very tough time.