What knitting cured (and what it didn't)
After two years of knitting almost every day, I can be honest about what it actually did to my brain — and what it definitely didn't.
Knitting did not cure my anxiety. It did, however, give it somewhere to live. The anxiety is now mostly in my hands instead of in my chest. That is a real upgrade.
Knitting did not make me focus. It made me okay with not focusing. Stocking stitch is the rare activity I can do while a podcast plays AND I'm half-thinking about a logistics problem with the studio AND I'm aware that the cat is suspicious of the plant.
Knitting did not make me a better entrepreneur. But it did teach me that progress can be a centimetre at a time without that being a personal failure.
The real cost of running a tiny studio in Budapest
Rent, yarn, insurance, the espresso machine I shouldn't have bought. A full breakdown of my first six months as a one-woman craft business.
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Vlog — A quiet Saturday at the studio
Ten minutes of footage from a Saturday workshop. Coffee being made, four people learning a chain stitch, a slow afternoon.
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