Visible Mending

Why do people knit? In the charming stop-motion animation Visible Mending, we hear from a variety of people who knit for a variety of reasons. A mother knitted a blanket to ease her stress when her son was injured. A knitting club member remembers friends who she inherited yarn from. A terminal cancer patient knits to feel a sense of accomplishment. An engineer used knitting as physical therapy after a stroke. And there's a man who knits burial clothes for a maternity hospital so he can focus on the needs of others. Knitting improves hand-eye coordination, provides feedback, reduces stress, improves focus, and builds community with others. And it makes an awfully cute group of knitted animals to illustrates these concepts in film. They are, in fact, mending themselves. (via Laughing Squid)