Our Top 5 Couch Hobbies to Try While Bingeing Your Favourite Show.
There's a special kind of joy in getting lost in a new season of your favourite show while your hands are busy doing something creative. It turns screen time into something a little more productive, a little more mindful, and honestly, a lot more satisfying.
If you've been looking for a beginner-friendly couch hobby that fits neatly into your evening TV ritual, we’ve asked around the studio and compiled our top 5 hobbies you need to try!
1. Knitting and Crochet: The Original Couch Hobby
It's no accident that knitting and crochet have been the go-to screen-time hobby for generations. Both are rhythmic, repetitive, and easy to pick up between scenes without losing your place in the plot. A beginner scarf, a granny-square blanket, or a wildflower crochet design are all perfect low-stakes projects to keep your hands busy through a whole series.
Tip: Etsy is our favourite Australian business to find simple patterns and DIY kits to kick-start you on your journey. For in-person tutorials, we run crochet classes from our studio in West Perth.
2. Watercolour Painting (Yes, Really)
Watercolour has a reputation for being messy, but a compact travel palette, a water brush pen, and a small pad make it a surprisingly practical couch-friendly hobby, our Creative Director Em would highly agree! Focus on a theme for your painting; this could be sunsets, simple florals or sea life.
Watercolour techniques like colour mixing, wet-on-wet blending, and layering is much easier to grasp in person. Our wonderful watercolour artist Em, runs monthly Watercolour workshops from our studio in West Perth, choose from two workshop options: Wildflowers & Botanicals or Manta rays & Whalesharks.
3. Embroidery and Cross-Stitch
Embroidery hoops are small, portable, and endlessly satisfying to finish… a few stitches per scene adds up to a finished piece faster than you'd expect. What we love is that most kits come with pre-printed patterns, which make this one of the most beginner-friendly couch hobbies on this list.
4. Colouring Books for Adults
Sometimes the simplest option is the best one. Aesthetically pleasing adult colouring books offer a genuinely meditative, low-effort way to stay creative on the couch, and they're an easy entry point if the idea of "starting a new hobby" feels daunting. Make sure you buy some nice colouring pens or pencils to go along with this hobby.
5. Journaling and Bullet Journaling
Whether it's gratitude journaling, habit tracking, or simply decorating a new book, journaling is a wonderfully flexible hobbythat doubles as a creative outlet and a mindfulness practice.
We hope you loved our top 5 beginner hobbies you can try from your home.
If any of these hobbies have sparked something in you, our creative workshops from our studio in West Perth are designed to help you take the next step in your creative journey.
Whether you're after a one-off weekend workshop in West Perth, a term of weekly classes, or simply want a hands-on hobby, we'd love to welcome you into the studio.
See our website here for more information.
