> [!NOTE]+ Meta > Author:: Wall Street Journal > Reference:: 20-somethings are taking up grandma's favorite hobbies. (2025, June). *The Wall Street Journal*. https://www.tovima.com/wsj/20-somethings-are-taking-up-grandmas-favorite-hobbies/ (citing Mintel, *US Arts and Crafts Consumer Report 2025*, https://store.mintel.com/report/us-arts-and-crafts-consumer-market-report-2025) > Date:: 2025 > Tags:: #warp/article #USA #textiles > WeftLinks:: > - [[Psychological value of craft]] > Claim:: > - [[Claim - Craft is growing in popularity]] > - [[Claim - It is reassuring to touch base with the material world]] > - [[Claim - Craft helps us cope with the impact of artificial intelligence]] > [!SUMMARY] Summary > A Mintel survey found 71% of US adults did a craft project in 2024, with Gen Z the most engaged as young people trade doomscrolling for handwork. ### Highlights The Wall Street Journal reports young adults in their twenties and thirties taking up needlepoint, knitting, crochet, scrapbooking and junk journaling as a way to slow down and disconnect from screens. Needlepoint classes sell out and community stitching tables have become social venues. The article cites a Mintel survey of 2,000 US adults: 71% had participated in a craft project in 2024. Among Gen Z, 86% identified as crafters and 30% had attended an in-person arts and crafts class. The generation most at home online is the most engaged in making by hand. The article frames the trend as a response to screen fatigue rather than AI specifically, so it supports the connection element of the AI claim indirectly. > Twenty- and 30-somethings are exchanging their doomscrolling for needlepoint