a sample of my knitting

One of my qualifications should the zombie apocalypse come: I can knit and sew. Also one of my qualifications for marriage, but hope chests are a bit outdated, and no one really gives a damn anymore about needlepoint (which is good because I've been getting rusty). This took several hours. It's lamb's wool and I am making it into a pouch, note loose ends, it's not finished. It will have tassels.
The design I came up with for a gift! It's sort of every spirally thing I've ever thought about. Also the triskelion, which might be a Celtic symbol? There should be more elaborate interpretations in the future, this first spiral leads to smaller spirals on the edges, and they all circle back around. If we are thinking about symbolically portraying the cosmic dance, for me it would be something like this. There's a lot of focused energy and intensity, but also a bubbling sense of humor and intelligence, of consciously playing the Game.
Textiles do something to my brain. Something good. I have yet to find a metaphor for ecology that I can become so immersed in as the task of knitting. This is the way I see problems. I have a hole, or a dropped stitch, and first I sit very still and figure out what happened, a matter of temporospatial observation, what is the pattern, and how did it change, and take it back to the root cause of the problem, giving it enough slack so that I don't undo it further. Each stitch on its own is very loose, but put them all together and you have something flexible and whole. Miss one stitch, all the others start to fall apart around it. From a tangle of yarn I can create (or help coax into existence) something that will hold together. Turning holes into wholes. That is why I'm optimistic about the environment. I have patience to sit undoing a knot for hours after most people would give up and cut it apart.