I knit some of the experience of breakfast at the Ogden Point Cafe into the purse in progress and it will carry with it the sound of the ocean, the scudding of clouds. It's almost finished; I need about the depth of the ribbing on the front to complete the back and get a suitable length and decided to do this in garter stitch, that ribbing on the front gives a nice ease for putting things in and getting things out but that more ribbing would offer too much give.
It's back and forth knitting where the needles are not switched from hand to hand but remain in the same position and you knit one way on them and then knit back. It's Slow Knitting. Admirably so.
What occurred to me this time is how much more the fingers are engaged in Slow Knitting of this sort: in regular knitting the needles do most of the work with the fibre but in knitting back and forth the fingers are used a much as the needles, if not more. There's something pleasant in touching the yarn to this extent. I have experienced this in traditional rug hooking.