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Hard craft Have you ever sat down with your knitting and found yourself overcome with a sense of calm and wellbeing? Or maybe you get a hit of calm and pleasure from cooking, crocheting or even colouring in. What’s key is that you experience the sensation when you’re doing something crafty – something that results in an output, and that’s creative while not being too strenuous.

That sense of calm and wellbeing is more than just a fleeting pleasure. It turns out that craft activities such as knitting come with a whole

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