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Unwind Yarn is a blog that provides information on how you can relax and unwind while knitting. Hand knitting involves repetition, making it perfect for relaxing and unwinding during your free time.

At Unwind Yarn, we help you learn how to knit and how knitting can help you unwind. You can exploit the therapeutic power of knitting to benefit your body, mind and soul.

You’ll find hand-knitting to be calming, improves focus or attention, challenging, and you can created various forms from one yarn ball to another.

Although many people associate knitting with aging grannies who love making winter mittens and baggy sweaters, it’s an art that even the young can practice.

Over the last decade, a new audience in its 20s and 30s have taken up knitting, a centuries-old craft. They’re looking for an easy way to relax and simplicity in things around them.

Also referred to as new yoga, knitting is a nerve-soothing activity for idle supermodels, actresses, over-scheduled students and stressed out mothers. We offer free lessons, advice on crocheting or hand knitting issues, and the most recent yarns, knit fashions, accessories and patterns.

We also provide information on relevant events such as New York’s Knit-Out that attracted over 400 guests in the first year it was hosted. The figure has increased over the years to almost 10,000 attendees.

Increasing interest in knitting has seen the New York event take place in other American cities, including Seattle and Washington, DC.

With ease of knitting sophisticated sweaters, rich fashion yarns and an opportunity to end the trend in mass-produced clothing, there’s been a knitting resurgence over the years. The art produces unique clothing for all kinds of occasion.

At Unwind Yarn, you’ll also learn that knitting is a life skill. Young professional women, stay-at-home mothers, hipsters and Orthodox Jewish women popularly take up knitting classes.

Similarly, youthful women have taken up the hand craft in large numbers. Young knitters below 35 years, according to Research Inc., an Atlanta-based marketing research company, have increased in numbers from 2 million in 1998 to 4 million in 2000. The figure has doubled over the years.

Based on the same research study, the United States of America is home to about 38 million women with crocheting or knitting skills and experience.

Many celebrities such as supermodels and actresses have taken up the hobby to improve productivity on film, photography and television sets during downtime. Julia Roberts, Sandra Bullock, Rose McGowan, and Cameron Diaz have eliminated the old-lady knitting stigma.

Knitting is a perfect conversation starter. And, unlike reading magazines, can easily go for many hours. At Unwind Yarn, you’ll learn how knitting binds people together, immediately opening up doors to others on the set.

The craft allows you to unwind after a long day’s work. You can also learn how to knit as a way of connecting with others in knitting classes or groups. You can fill your knitting bag with unfinished crocheting projects over time.