53: just give me simple projects! | The Crimson Stitchery Knitting Podcast

Life is complicated, knitting doesn't have to be. In Episode 53 of my knitting podcast I share finished sock knitting, muse on unenjoyable colourwork, and discuss the woes of sewing in the ends of crochet scrap projects. Whilst I've continued to be busy tying up loose ends, I've found myself wanting to just knit simple, relaxing projects. Apparently this is quite a task for me, since I seem to like to make things difficult! Can you relate?

Can you recommend a favourite simple, relaxing knitting project? Let me know in the comments :)

Red Cross Ukraine war relief campaign: https://donate.redcross.org.uk/appeal...

I chat about responding to the war in Ukraine as a maker, and as a citizen. This has been on my mind lately as I've been reflecting on my family story during World War II. In the 1940s they were forcibly removed from their home in Poland and put in a concentration camp, eventually walking from Siberia to Tehran (Iran) before travelling to the UK as refugees.
I have struggled with how to respond to this story, especially given that a lot of research and stories published about surviving concentration camps and inter-generational trauma takes the Jewish community as its case study. Whilst the events affecting my family run concurrently with the Holocaust, and concern the same perpetrators (the Nazi and Russian armies/governments in the 1940s), my family are not Jewish. I struggle with the ethics of comparison in light of the history of the Jewish diaspora.
Yet despite that, knowing my family's story offers me the chance to extend compassion towards the innocent people suffering needlessly due to political games. It also allows me to remember how important the act of making and creating is, and how we shouldn't take our freedoms and joys for granted, instead, experience them fully and wholly.

Article how the war in Ukraine may affect Holocaust survivors - the sentence about parental silence is what spring-boarded my thoughts: https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/...

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