I saw a joyful thing last week; the kind that makes you laugh out loud with pleasure. I went all the way to Paris to see the Musée d’Orsay’s blockbuster Manet/Degas exhibition this spring – no regrets, it was stunning – but I got almost as much delight from this, the travelling knitted Bible created by St George’s United Reformed church in Hartlepool.
Part of the joy was the complete surprise. I was at Repair Café in York and saw a sign advertising the knitted Bible. It was in the church just next door, so I went to look. I don’t know what I was expecting – a cross between a book and a jumper, I think, which makes no sense – but not this: 36 meticulously knitted scenes from the Old and New Testaments.
