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e English Countryside: Towards a Future’ where it states, ‘Accelerating social change has transformed the rural economies, and with it, the traditional crafts…The gradual loss of the family firm has ended the pattern by which traditional skills once passed from master to apprentice down the generations. Ancient crafts have been lost, or barely survive’ (2004, p.20). A more accessible way to pass on the skills without relying on the bond between generations would be the online tutorials mentioned by one participant. These readily available lessons on knitting are accessible to almost anyone who wants to learn the skill. They can watch the videos at their own pace, pause and replay parts they did not understand, it’s a truly obtainable way of learning a skill and could potentially reach millions more people than by just passing knowledge through family members. The fights between technology and traditional crafts throughout the decades have threatened the existence of traditional crafts so it is ironic that this type of technology could reintroduce knitting to the younger generations. Question 6 asked the participants that had said that they had knit before, ‘Do you feel there are psychological benefits to knitting?’ 100% of the participants said that they felt that there were psychological benefits to knitting. This is really encouraging as knitting has to be valuable in today’s society if people receive some sort of psychological benefit from it. When asked to explain what psychological benefit they had received from knitting the majority said that they found it calming and that it relaxed them. One participant mentioned a ‘psychological boost’ after completing a knitting project, another described knitting as ‘therapeutic’. The sample suggests there is some merit in the theory that knitting has psychological benefits. Stitchlinks is a charity that is dedicated to researching the therapeutic qualities of knitting and stitching. Their survey in a book compiled by Betsan Corkhill called ‘Stitchlinks: Quotes V from knitters’ collected quotes from participants of the survey that had knitted and experienced psychological benefits, each quote was kept anonymous for confidentiality reasons. One stated ‘I learned to knit 2.5 years ago after I had been diagnosed with clinical depression and anxiety. Medication did help me reign in my runaway thoughts, but it wasn’t until I started knitting or crocheting every day that I really felt at peace’ (2007, pg.5). Another participant said, ‘I remember taking my knitting with me when I went for my weekly appointment with the psychiatrist…to take my mind off where I was…I really hated going there. Knitting helped me through this rough patch…without the repetitive action of knitting I would have been driven to more extreme compulsive behaviours’ (2007, pg.5). In these cases knitting has had obvious positive psychological effects for the participants of the experiment. One participant even goes as far as to say that knitting is warding off suicidal thoughts, saying ‘Knitting calms me down when I’m stressed, gets me excited when it feels like there’s no point in living, gives me something to think about that is outside myself, a reason to get up in the morning’ (2007, pg.6). These heart-breaking revelations show a correlation between the Stitchlinks participants and the participants of the questionnaire, providing further evidence that knitting has psychologi