Knitting looks like making a scarf — but ask anyone three projects deep and they'll tell you it's actually making time slow down. This week we pull apart the surprisingly radical history of knitting (protest tool, wartime ritual, cottage industry, TikTok revival), get lost in the sensory world of yarn shops and wool obsessives, and try to explain why casting on forty stitches at 11pm is somehow the most logical thing a person can do. No prior knitting experience required, though a suspicious number of half-finished cardigans may be involved.