I’m not having trouble with the yahoo group. Are you trying to post from the group website or from your e-mail?
No but I wish that group was private. I registered, posted and then somehow my email address got bombed by someone thinking they were doing me a favor by trying to convert me. :verysad:
Stitchwitch, seriously? When did that happen?
The day before yesterday. I woke up yesterday and my email box was full. I think it was some random person searching through groups to harrass people. Someone who doesn’t have anything better to do. I think I got targeted because I was the last person to post that day and the first person at the top of the message list.
What’d they say? I’m just a mod so I don’t know if I can switch it to private, but i’ll try.
It wasn’t nasty stuff, just stuff to get me interested in another religion.
I changed it so that the group isn’t listed in the yahoo groups directory. That should be fine, right?
stitchwitch… sorry your being bombarded with unwanted emails… :wall:… but ( to change back to the previous topic)… I don’t know how this relates to the god/goddess but I do believe there is something spriritual, empowering, and magical about creating … whether it be knitting, crochet, woodworking, spinning… I think there is just something that was put IN us to want to Make, create, or build… Maybe it’s b/c we spend so much of our lives consuming maybe it’s the divine’s way of helping us balance out our consumption… but I always feel peaceful, serene, and happy when I am knitting for a period of time.:think::think::think: KWIM???
I am so excited to find this thread!!! I’ve been Pagan for almost 4 years…actually my whole life, just didn’t realize it:shrug:solitary mostly, although I did meet some local girls to hang out with, but no one knits 
I am reading the book “Zen and the Art of Knitting”, right now…anyone read it?
I’m going to join the Yahoo group also.
Oh! I also wanted to add, that I"ve been on MysticWicks since 2004, although knitting and this place and Ravelry have greatly reduced my time there:pout:
~Tina
Thanks Rhea - and so sorry stitchwitch for your experience, should be private now.
Tina - great to have you, hope to see you on the group 
Ainee - your post reminds me of one of my favourite lines from Rent - ‘the opposite of war isn’t peace, it’s creation’. I think creating and bringing something beautiful to the world is a perfect way to try to redress the balance away from destruction.
P.S. email working now, post made it through
Any Pagan Knitters?
How exactly does one go about knitting a Pagan anyway? :shrug:
Love this topic! I’m born and raised Episcopal/Christian, father’s a priest the whole shebang.
Anywho, I was raised not to follow my parent’s belief system, but to find my own. My own happens to have somewhat mirrored my parents, but not fully. I definitely don’t alway agree with my church, and have some person spiritual beliefs that differ from the dogma of the organized religion that I’m a member of.
My neighbor is a knitter, and is pagan. Personally, as long as you are living a happy life, and not hurting others, your person spiritual beliefs are just fine with me, fascinating as well sometimes.
I’ll be interested in following this thread, who knows something might strike a cord, a few things mentioned already have. I’ve also referred my neighbor to the thread, she’ll find it interesting!
I can’t believe you just quoted RENT.
I’ve been a renthead for 3 years =]
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Heeeere’s another one. Eclectic, leaning a bit towards Wiccan, here. I haven’t incorporated knitting into my grounding/meditations, but now that I think about it, it makes so much sense.
I am still a pokey knitter, I used to knit at work (small community bank, when there aren’t customers in the bank, it’s dead!) but some newer tellers weren’t being the best about putting things aside when customers came in, so our manager banned reading when it’s slow (she didn’t mention knitting, but I’m not going to cause waves). I can’t knit with my dog around, either, since he thinks it is more fun to play tug with the yarn. Anyway, even though I still have to pay attention and concentrate when knitting, it really is naturally grounding, isn’t it? I am going to have to contemplate this some more.
It’s really great to see this thread. I am a very private person, and my spiritual beliefs are not shared unless someone specifically asks me. I think I will go join the yahoo group, sounds like a great idea (other than those nasty emails - hopefully that doesn’t happen to anyone else!)
Well I would think you need to buy LOTS of Yarn “looks around” okay that’s done. next it helps to have a model, and in the absence of one, just guess. I would suppose it helps to have lots of time on your hands too.:angelgrin::clink:
I consider myself UU (Unitarian Universalist) with Kitchen Witch tendencies. Definitely the feminine sacred and of all the characters from Harry Potter I connected with Molly Weasley the most. (Maybe it’s my homemaker homeschooling spiritually aware children place I’m in right now). I find knitting very spiritual. I am a fiber snob and can’t stand to knit with acrylic, but I think it is more a tactile thing than anything else. The fibers have to feel good in my fingers. I did one scarf made from acrylic (a Gryffindor scarf at that) and hated the whole process. Not because I considered the fibers synthetic, but because I didn’t like the way they felt in my hands. So if you aren’t having an issue with the way that fibers feel in your hands, then I wouldn’t 'worry right now about whether they are natural or not. Buy that which you can afford and which brings you joy.
[FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=darkorchid]A cure for that is to put the skein of yarn in a nylon stocking and tie it up on both ends so the skein is held tightly. Throw it in the washer and dryer with other items (NOT towels) so it doesn’t get too hot and kill the yarn.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]
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[FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=#9932cc]Then knit with it. All the sizing they use to help the yarn keep it’s shape is removed then and the yarn is much softer and nicer to work with.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]
And then there is the ‘zen of socks’…the circular stitching that gives one calmness as in meditation…the raising of awareness when you get to the heel…the quiet circular calmness again as you get back into the foot…again, a hightened awareness when you get to the toe…there is such a gentle spirituality to knitting socks…
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I did not know that.
You rock.
that makes TWO of us who didn’t know that~!:waving: