Crafting My Way Calm: My Attempt to Create a 400-Square-Foot Sanctuary

There are a lot of things my friends make fun of me for. In my apartment alone, there's plenty of fodder: my enormous yarn collection, stacked on a bookshelf directly across from my bed; my hand-embroidered clock, which hangs above the doorway; my small tray of rocks covered in crocheted cotton cozies, which look for all the world as if they are wearing sweaters.