Knitting my clothes helped me fall in love with my fat body
![After years of struggling to find clothes to fit her body and feeling ashamed of her weight, Whitney Swinimer began knitting clothes for herself that made her feel confident and beautiful. A woman wearing a blue knitted blouse smiles and poses among pink cherry blossoms.](https://i.cbc.ca/1.7227312.1717707684!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/whitney-swinimer.jpg)
After years of hiding her body and feeling ashamed of her weight, Whitney Swinimer realized she could do things differently: instead of changing her body to fit store-bought clothes, she could make clothes that made her feel confident and beautiful.