sustain:if:able kiwi

the digital in the making

I’m loving being back and re-reading interview transcripts in my Ordinary knitters research.

I’m working on my “Making is connecting” conference presentation for the International Association for Mission Studies IAMS. Today involved trawling through some of the 50 interviews with knitters who knitted angels, scarves and strawberries in church projects.

I was looking for the role of the digital in these knitting projects, like the Whatsapp group that began as a space to share knitting progress within a congregation and became a space for prayer. “I thought this was about bits of wool but actually this is about discipleship” observed one of my focus group participants.

It’s fascinating how material things – wool and technology – are spaces within which faith grows.