Eleanor Eden, 24, recently swapped a “pretty chronic social media addiction” with crochet and knitting. During the Covid pandemic, it became “easy to spend all day” looking at screens, and knitting was her escape hatch.
Eden, a junior legal secretary from Manchester, is one of a new wave of young people cutting back on screen time and taking up knitting, sewing and embroidery instead. “It feels a million times more productive and better for my mental health,” she says.
