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"...during the first hour everyone did needlework--knitting crocheting, embroidery, needlepoint--in silence. During the second hour, all continued to do needlework while speaking deeply to the others about their lives...Handcrafts belong to an earlier world, the slower pace of preindustrial life where one had the leisure to sink deeply and profoundly into the rhythms of nature within and without and to feel a connection with the earth as a living spiritual entity. We make things by hand to express who we are...Handcrafts throughout history have often been fashioned with the aid of prayer, one prayer for each bead or each stitch, while keeping good thoughts to enhance the spiritual purpose of the object. It is no accident that some of the finest lace in Europe was fashioned in convents; like the counting of the rosary, the motions of needlework are singularly well suited to the practice of contemplation." The Knitting Sutra (Pages 3 & 4.)