The white stitches represent COVID-19 cases, while the green stitches are recoveries and the red stitches represent deaths. WATCH: Sarah McLean explains her knitting project:Canadian knitter explains her pandemic project CBC News Video 0:30 Sarah McLean, a Canadian living in Florence, Italy, explains why knitting a project that documents the country's COVID-19 cases, deaths and recoveries is important to her. Shortly after the number of COVID-19 cases shot up in English, she knitted her own sculpture resembling the virus because she was moved by its beauty, despite it "being quite a horrible thing." - Psychologist Lynne RothwellPsychologist Lynne Rothwell recently published an article on knitting during the COVID-19 pandemic in the British Psychological Society's magazine. Sarah McLean agrees, saying her COVID-19 creature has helped her literally get a hold on the pandemic that swept over Italy and into her own life.

Source: CBC News January 03, 2021 09:00 UTC