At a time when many of us feel overwhelmed by the 24/7 demands of the digital world, interest in craft practices, cooking from scratch, and productive home gardens, and other activities are being looked to as something of an antidote to the stresses and pressures of modern living.
Crafts such as knitting, crochet, weaving, ceramics, needlework and woodwork focus on repetitive actions and a skill level that can always be improved upon. According to the famous psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, this allows us to enter a “flow” state, a perfect immersive state of balance between skill and challenge.
