In order to knit you come in your stitch here, grab your work and pull it through and then pull it off the needle.

And so it's just a continuous mo of adding another row.

My sister and I, we would spend summers with my grandparents.

One summer she sat me and my sis because she was going to teach u how to crochet.

So we made all these, like, long But neither one of us could fig how to build off of the next row And after a while, she was like You know what, we'll just wait f She never got around to teaching anytime after that.

Back in the early eighties, she decided to make quilts for e six kids.

And so what was given to my dad was this crazy quilt that includes fabric scrap from different family members.

There's nothing of mine on it, b yeah, it is trimmed in velvet, which is gorgeous.

Several years ago, my mom was going through all of ornaments.

She ended up giving me the snowf that my dad's mother made.

As I was putting them on my tree I kept staring at these snowfla and realizing that now that she no one else was going to be able to make them anymore.

That's what got me to take up cr in the first place.

There's a certain magic to taking three balls of yarn and turning it into somethin that is beautiful and patterned.

It's simple in a way but I think that simplicity is what can make needlework so mean There's not a whole lot of patterns for men out there.

One o the things I do is whenever I fi especially the free patterns, I print it out and I have it saved in notebook where I'm able to reference them I have a huge collection of prin or ripped out of magazines beca I don't need all the other patte I also like to collect the old books from like the fifties and where they actually acknowledged that men needed knit goods.

Part of what we cal toxic masculinity is not being a to deal with your emotion and not willing to self-reflect.

People are so busy that they don that they need to sit with their thoughts.

I think that's one of the reason why a lot of men are trying to reclaim needlewor as something that is masculine.

I'm searching for the same thing in each stitch.

Each stitch creates something be in its own way.

When I was going through confirm at 13, the nun that was conducting the confirmation classes for us, gave us a piece of pape and some magic markers, and she to describe our relationship to God by drawing something.

At the time, I drew a very large circle and a tiny circle that just barely touched it.

When we had to describe what we I think I kind of freaked out si because I was like, I feel like I'm just barely atta to God at that moment.

I was at a church that had a pedophile priest.

I felt betrayed by the church, not by God.

That led me to still search for God, but in a different setting.

I realized that God was also that small circle with me, that the bigger circl was something that I could let g God dwelled within me, not in the steeple house, as Quakers like to say.

Each of these stitches is just a small circle.

I call it God.

You can call it the universe, whatever it is.

But its something that you have That will never come undone.