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How knitting can be calming
Updated On: 23 November, 2022 10:36 AM IST | Mumbai | Tanishka D’Lyma
In a chapter of her book The Light We Carry released this month, Michelle Obama describes how knitting helped calm her mind during the pandemic. Two knitters share their story of the grounding effects of the craft

Michelle Obama. Pics courtesy/@Twitter
Pace the mind
Knitting was part of Sandhya Kulkarni’s Karyanubhav class in school. But unlike most students whose grades in work experience and craft were based on projects completed by their parents, Kulkarni was excited to learn how to work with two needles and a ball of yarn. It’s been 40 years since the HR consultant learned how to knit and she says, “Even with two hands and 24 hours in a day, a lifetime isn’t enough to complete all the projects and styles that I want to tackle.”

A still from an interview with Michelle Obama as she shows off a sweater she knit
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