Knit and Craft Circle
Chat, share and learn with fellow creative folk at this social knit and crafting session each week.
Do you knit? Crochet? Cross stitch? Embroider? Draw? Paint? Do you dabble in papercrafts, wire sculpture, mosaics or model making? Whatever your creative outlet this group is full of fellow, enthusiastic crafters of all sorts.
Come along to share what you love doing, what you are working on and any pro tips. Met some new people and get inspired.
Anyone is welcome to join the group, even people who aren’t sure of a great crafty hobby yet. All you need for each session is a genuine interest in chatting crafts and learning from each other’s experiences.
When: Thursdays 2pm – 3pm
Where: Online via Zoom
Cost: Free
About the host:
Angela is one of CCNB’s staff members who is passionate about knitting and knits intricate samples for yarn companies.
After dabbling in a variety of other creative hobbies, including jewelry making, mosaics and quilting, she reconnected with knitting in 2017. Finding such a vibrant community of crafters, designers, indie dyers and podcasts about the craft out there she hasn’t looked back! Since then she admits to have becoming a bit of a yarn snob, using mostly Australian grown and dyed yarns, and according to Angela “It isn’t a good day until I have knitted a few rows”.
Angela finds knitting very meditative and is a firm believer in the benefits of knitting on mental health. The therapeutic benefits of crafts on mental wellbeing has been particularly well-publicised since the emergence of Covid.
Angela shared her knitting story with the Belong Club:
I learned to knit from my mother and my auntie, they both gave me instructions in the basics of knitting when I was around 10 years old. By the time I was in my mid-teens I taught myself a number of other skills like lace knitting and knitting in the round. While a senior at school I made heaps of my own knitwear.
She could talk knitting for days. Come and join this creative cat for a chat and a yarn.
About Belong Club:
You are welcome to join the Belong Club!
The Belong Club is a Northern Beaches Community Care initiative designed to build community connections. They use local presenters to run online and in-person events that everyone is welcome to join.
Through activities, conversations and knowledge sharing, Belong Club brings together anyone looking to try something new, re-explore old passions, socialise and build more community connections.
The online component of the Belong Club offers increased accessibility to new and ongoing connections as part of a supportive online community, to sustain health and wellbeing.
Check out all the activities on their website, at ccnb.com.au/events .
All Belong Club events are currently free.
Once you join an event, you’re considered a member of Belong Club! They’ll start sending you a weekly email update with the upcoming week’s event. Remember, you’re free to unsubscribe from these at any time.
Contact:
If you have any questions, please email belongclub@ccnb.com.au or call 1300 002 262 to speak to the team.