Crochet is not an ancient practice here at Manhattan High School. At Crochet Club those who know the craft and those who don’t come together in harmony to make hand crafted projects.
“The purpose is to give people an opportunity to learn how to crochet, since it’s more like a traditional art form,” president Rachel Wei, senior, said.
Crochet club does many things, from teaching other high school students how to crochet to teaching the elementary students at Ogden. Crochet Club even volunteers at Meadowlark Hills Retirement Home and crochets with the elderly.
“We usually do a lot of volunteer activities,” vice president Rowen Wade, senior, said. “One of our two ongoing volunteer activities happens at least a couple times a month.”
Crochet Club is very flexible for varying skill levels and would be happy to see newcomers at the next meeting to learn more about their craft. They try to keep their projects simple for everyone to try to learn while also expressing their creative side.
“My favorite project would be how we learned to do a granny square,” freshman member Annie Mak said.
These granny squares are a way to start crocheting in small spurts and then used to create a much bigger project later.
Crochet Club’s most recent accomplishment is creating plarn. Plarn is plastic that has been woven into yarn. The Crochet Club plans to use it to make a cool marine life project to show their support of the Environmental Club.
“Since sea life is mainly affected a lot with pollution of plastic, we’re looking into doing a starfish or jellyfish. We just haven’t decided,” Wade said.
Crochet Club has many ambitions such as potentially selling crocheted projects to raise money for the club. Currently they are more focused on volunteering more than producing products to sell.
“We haven’t had one single fundraiser to sell crochet stuff yet, so I haven’t actually made any money yet. I’ve mainly just been doing volunteer opportunities,” Wei said.
Crochet Club is always open to having new members. They would be happy to have experienced and inexperienced crafters.
“Our goal for the Crochet Club is for everyone to find their happy place with crochet, to learn the skill that they want to learn when crocheting and to be able to make whatever project they would like to make eventually with the knowledge that we’re able to give them,” Wade said.
