1. Cause: Turns off
Crocheting can completely turn off your brain. After a tiring or difficult day, people want nothing more than to break away from the gray everyday life and wander into another world. Starting a new figure or continuing a crocheted garment is the perfect opportunity for this. When a person counts the eyes, focuses, the outside light around him completely disappears. Many times, after crocheting, one sees the day and the problems that have arisen in a completely different light.
Reason 3: Meditative activity
Crocheting is a series of repeated movements and the high degree of concentration puts the crocheter in a meditative state. Many crocheters proclaim that crochet is my yoga, as this hobby can turn off the mind and recharge the soul. While crocheting, when I count the stitches and my attention is fully focused, I can only fully experience the Flow experience of crocheting. Many times I just crochet and crochet the rows, and I don't even notice that 1-2 hours have passed. Only the result shows that more and more body parts surround me, if you know what I mean. 😀
5. REASON: You get pleasure
Primarily for yourself, how beautiful you have created, all you needed was one (or more) skeins of yarn and a crochet hook. On the other hand, you also bring joy to the person you are making it for, since based on my experience, most of the time people crochet not for themselves, but for others. And this pursuit of pleasure makes you happy too. Planning, on the other hand, has an additional side of pleasure, as I am happy with the crocheter who proudly shares his creation with me, I am happy that he liked what I came up with and the person who will receive the crocheted toy is also happy. Is it really a huge, invisible chain of joy connecting the whole world, or is it a thread? Who knows 😉
Reason 7: You can be a child again
Especially after making amigurumi, but after creating another work (even a drawing or a cake), I feel the same feeling I had when I finished a really beautiful drawing as a child. You are satisfied with what you have made, even if you see its flaws, but you know that you created it and there is no other like it in the world. I honestly rejoice after the completion of each animal, I honestly fall in love with all of them, I close them in my heart. At such times, I always feel like the little girl I was when I was a child and I can once again surrender myself to my passion for plush toys. In addition, we adults are often strict with ourselves, so at least in this area we allow ourselves to make mistakes more easily, because we know that we will learn from them. Even the children.
Reason 9: You are a member of a community
In my opinion, this was especially important during Kovid, when people could not meet physically, but could keep in touch online. I dare to say that it helped many people get through this difficult period that they found each other through crochet earlier or later, and thus became part of a large crochet community. Besides, you can meet a lot of interesting people through this hobby. It is a great pleasure for me that I got to know many different people in the world who are lovers of that hobby, but live on the other side of the planet. The social nature of the crochet events is also excellently shown, such as the Crochet Along (CAL) events, i.e. the crochet challenges, or the various games organized by the crochet pattern designers. I am glad to be part of this great community. You are my crochet family.
