Knit Yourself Calm: A creative path to managing stress - Softcover

Rowe, Lynne; Corkhill, Betsan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1782214933 ISBN 13: 9781782214939

Publisher: Search Press, 2017

Synopsis

Reduce stress and enjoy your favorite pastime with a wide variety of mindfulness-based knitting projects for new and experienced knitters!
 
Knitting is a relaxing and therapeutic pastime. Knit Yourself Calm uses this winning combination to offer mindfulness techniques and fun knitting projects to help you reduce stress. Though aimed at both beginners and advanced knitters, the book focuses on basics knit and purl stitches, increasing, decreasing, and some simple colourwork.
 
After covering essential techniques, author Lynne Rowe shares mindful knitting projects in 5 sections. Each section offers a different way of promoting calm:

• Quick and Easy Projects for when you when you need a quick fix to raise your mood
• Portable Projects for managing stress on the go, perfect for commutes, work breaks, and travel days
• Group Projects for when you want to knit with friends and enjoy some mood-boosting fun, play, and laughter
• Big Projects for when you need a constant companion to whom you can turn for calm, consistency, and a soothing rhythm.
• New Skills – from different stitch patterns, colours, or textures – for nurturing a healthy brain, growth, and creativity.

Whatever your skill level, there are plenty of projects here to help you achieve calm, manage stress, and enjoy a fun, creative pastime that produces beautiful projects for yourself, your loved ones, or your home!

About this title

About the Authors

Lynne Rowe was taught to knit and crochet by her grandmother in her early childhood and has been hooked ever since. She has developed a wide range of specialist skills and loves to pass these on to others through her workshops and classes. She is best known for her whimsical designs which feature regularly in the UK’s most popular craft magazines, along with articles and technical guides. Her practical approach makes her patterns straightforward, easy to read and fun to make. Her aim is to encourage as many people as possible to knit and crochet. Lynne lives in Congleton, Cheshire.

Betsan Corkhill is an experienced healthcare professional specialising in physiotherapy and is a passionate advocate of the 'whole-person' approach to health. She supports people in improving their wellbeing, whether they are fit and well or learning to live with a long-term medical condition. Her background as a physiotherapist enables her to combine wellbeing coaching with her medical knowledge to help individuals develop a personalised wellbeing plan. 

Betsan founded the community interest company stitchlinks.com in 2005. 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.

From the Back Cover

Knitting is both a relaxing and therapeutic pastime that helps manage stress and promote calm, and this winning combination is understood perfectly by experienced knitting designer Lynne Rowe and mindfulness expert and healthcare professional Betsan Corkhill. They have pooled their knowledge of pattern design and practical mindfulness techniques to design 16 projects for both novice and experienced knitters that combine the calming, repetitive nature of knitting with beautiful design.

Choose from quick and easy projects, portable ones to knit on the go, group projects to do with friends, big projects for when you have more time, and those which introduce new skills to stimulate a creative mind. Banish the stress ‘fight or flight’ response with therapeutic knitting and choose a creative path to mindfulness.

Edition details

• Publisher: Search Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1782214933
• ISBN 13: 9781782214939
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112