Stretching should always feel friendly. This is not a “go for the burn; no pain no gain” activity. It’s gentle, often passive movement. Simply opening and closing your hands and fingers will do the trick.

Stretching should always feel friendly. This is not a “go for the burn; no pain no gain” activity. It’s gentle, often passive movement. Simply opening and closing your hands and fingers will do the trick.

Now if you’re a knitting monogomist, good for you! There is nothing wrong with that. You just need to make sure you’re giving your body the variety of movement and position changes that your knitting project isn’t.

Let me start by confessing that writing the first entry to what I believe is the first website dedicated to the ergonomics of hand knitting, hand spinning, and the fiber arts is scary. Weeks of agonizing over the perfect entry made my head hurt and my confidence wane.