I really like to knit, my daughter and I learned together when she was young I love to manipulate the yarn and make blankets
Really that is a really nice feature to have, my grandmother use to knit me a lot, she used kniting as a kind of teraphy.
of course knitting can be done by hand or machine but by hand certainly be therapeutic 
My grandmother tried to teach my move to knit, are you planning on teaching your family how to knit?
I actually learned with my daughter, we learned together, I love the new styles of yarns, they are more modern, and the different size of needles to make different looks