Life skills you can learn from knitting

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Knitting is not just a hobby. It is also a fun way to learn all kinds of skills, many of which can be translated into other areas of your life. If you ever hear someone be dismissive of knitting, maybe they need to consider the practical ways in which it can help you improve yourself.
Patience

You can’t hurry knitting. It takes time to learn and to get right, otherwise you just end up having to undo it all and start again. For big projects, it takes even longer, but an impressive final result, even months later, shows how valuable patience and determination can be.

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Dexterity

Keeping those fingers moving as you manage the long pieces of yarn and sharp-pointed needles from your knitting kit is not easy, but it definitely gives you an opportunity to improve your fine motor skills.

Resourcefulness

You need to source yarn in the most inexpensive way possible, you need to find a knitting kit and pattern for your latest project, you need to adjust when things go wrong and sometimes you need to do it all by a strict deadline, such as when creating a birthday present. Knitters are resourceful, adaptable people with good problem-solving skills, especially when they multitask, knitting a new piece whilst paying attention to something else.

Maths

Hard as it may be to believe, knitting is actually a good way to practise some of those maths skills that you thought you had left behind at school. It is mostly about adding and subtracting, but it can become complicated with more complex and modified patterns.

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Whether you are working on physical abilities such as dexterity or improving your mental attitude by practising patience and determination, knitting is a way to hone a wide variety of different life skills.