Kathryn Vercillo's article about Vicki Sulfaro and Healing Through Crochet, along with Samantha Nerove's article about Combat Crochet brought crochet full circle for me: When I first learned to crochet, it seemed that many folks considered the craft to be historically for injured people during their convalescence, keeping brain-injured people occupied, soothing for shell-shocked soldiers, and, of course, for old women churning out an embarrassing number of doilies that set the neighbors to gossip. As a child, I did not know any of that. I just liked the power of working one stitch at a time, the basic complexity, and the process. As we work to heal in a world of pain, it is good to see crochet taking its traditional place again along with all its modern creativity. I haven't seen the blog about this issue refer to these articles, yet.
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