I can attest to how right-brained and therefore soothing knitting can be, having recently started knitting again after a thirty five year hiatus. Shetland knitting sounds difficult but interesting!

My mother taught me the basics. She is one of those individuals that can knit almost anything without even much of a pattern. I did not inherit that gift. She still knits up a storm at age 79. Her last stroke interefered with some of her bridge playing ability but not her knitting ability!