A new club has recently caught the attention of students, the knitting and crocheting club. This new club centers around activities that are a good way to pass the time, keep students’ hands occupied and learn an easy new hobby.
Junior Gillian Szymczak, the president of the club, explains how she fell in love with crocheting.
“I could bring it with me everywhere,” Szymczak said, “I am a wrestling manager and I do theater and sometimes we have empty space [that] it’s good for. It’s compactable and easy to carry around everywhere you go.”
English teacher Kristen Huang, the sponsor of the club, describes Szymczak’s dedication to crocheting and how the club came to be.
“[Szymczak] is the one who started it,” Huang said. “She is always crocheting and showing me stuff and I was like, ‘you need to teach people [how] to do this’ and she came back with a plan to have a club.”
Szymczak had many ideas for the club and the environment she wanted so everyone was comfortable with sharing ideas and creating what they wanted.
“I want to have projects that they want to make and that’s easy for beginners, but also fun for advanced people too,” Szymczak said. “Also take up ideas and build on that, like having a safe place to have safe ideas and make [what they want such as] more plus size [clothing] and be able to make it as they want and make sure it will fit the person.”
I want to have projects that they want to make and that’s easy for beginners, but also fun for advanced people too.
— Junior Gilllian Szymczak
“It’s a nice, comfortable group; we’ve only met a couple of times so far, but I think it’s pretty relaxed,” Huang said. “There’s some people in there who already know how and some people who are learning.”
Huang also describes the goals that the club eventually wants to achieve, such as bigger projects that would be used as donations.
“[Szymczak] would like for us to get to a point where we can do something that we could donate, like baby hats to a hospital or something like that,” Huang said.
The club plans on meeting every other Wednesday in Huang’s classroom, A201. Everyone is welcome no matter the skill level. Szymczak and the others members are already excited to get started on new projects.
“We’re going to [start with] little projects,” Szymczak said. “Next meeting, we’re going to make hats. Then the next meeting we’re gonna make granny squares which we will use to build a blanket together.”
