Sweater Club

I’ve always been told I’m a good teacher but I’ve always hated teaching.

I’ve taught several times over the years, starting in high school with the Autism spectrum room; a COOP where I taught art classes; in local high schools here in Halifax doing seminars and over video calls with older woman. sprinkle in some other random gigs and thats about it. I’ve never really enjoyed these gigs and I think its because it felt so rigid, but I’ve always had an itch to share what I do and how I’ve learned it.

So much of how I connect with people is through craft nights, projects with pals and yapping about yarn. I’m the first to ask a fellow creative when they’re going through a hard time if they have been making art. Halfway through winter and seasonal depression this year I made it a goal to start running Sweater Club; goal is to teach people how to make a sweater; even if they are at a very low skill level… I think the real goal is to slowly move towards that goal but more so to encourage people to hang out in a room making without pressure…. and maybe make fun of people for not knowing how to count (a popular joke in crochet; “you learn if you know how to count when you start crocheting”).

I have probably 15 people give or take in the group on Instagram I’ve made; usually a group of six people get together. On our first meet it ended with tarot readings; our second we all determined we don’t know what comes after 4….. there’s been a few since and the next one will be my 29th birthday.

I think I like teaching when it isn’t formal, I like just hangin out in a room with some friends talking about yarn and how hard it is to count (except for me I’m really good at counting).