Knit Yourself Calm: A creative path to managing stress

She supports people in improving their wellbeing, whether they are fit and well or learning to live with a long-term medical condition. It has grown into a global online community for those who enjoy the therapeutic benefits of craft, particularly knitting, and is pioneering scientific research into these benefits.  She is also an experienced magazine production editor and regularly writes articles for a range of publications. She has written two books for Search Press:

The feeling of success you experience will motivate and inspire you.Portable: These smaller projects are even more portable, so keep one in your bag at all times. Let it be your constant friend, the one you turn to to find calm and consistency when the world around you feels a bit frantic. They are designed specifically to stimulate your creative mind.Whatever your skill level, there are plenty of projects in this book to help you achieve calm, bust those stress levels and enjoy a pastime which is creative, fun and produces beautiful projects to wear, or for the home.. Use your favorite colors and textures to enhance the benefits of the

A good balance of projects and a great starter knitting book. * Yarnsandfabrics * . Please note the socks use 5 needles and the hat is knitted on circular needles - this for me is the most stressful kind of knitting. The book takes you from basic knitting - garter, rib, two-row patterns up to chevrons, cables and intarsia. The projects don't just go for basic garter stitch, they introduce pattern too. I would agree with that as a lifelong knitter, apart from the times when I make a mistake and hate knitting with a vengeance. A rare occurrence as it happ