Personal Syllabus: Benefits of Knitting and Crocheting

Course Objectives

• Understand the benefits of working with your hands
• Try out one of the fiber arts

BENEFITS OF FIBER ARTS

Read the non-pattern parts of two of these books.

KNITTING IN FICTION

Read one or more of these novels to consider how knitting benefits the characters lives.

Assignments

• Listen to an episode of the Why I Knit podcast.
• Watch videos:
  • Why Everyone Should Crochet
  • Crochet Benefits: Crochet as Therapy
  • Knitting Benefits: Knitting Is the Antidote to Low Self-Confidence
• Visit a yarn store and find a yarn you like the feel of.
  • Luxury Alpaca (Janesville)
  • Straight River Rug Hooking & Fiber Arts (Owatonna)
  • A Touch of Country Crafts (Waseca)
  • Northfield Yarn (Northfield)
  • Rose Yarn Co. (Lakeville, MN)
  • The Yarn Shop of St. Peter (St. Peter, MN)
• Set a fiber arts goal (examples: project completion, pattern designing, skill-building, knitting for a cause, hosting a crocheting party)
• Complete a knitting or crocheting project.

Extra Credit

• Attend Le Center Public Library’s Stitch and Visit events.
• Talk to someone you know who knits or crochets about their latest project.
• Check out one of our adventure packs: Punch Needle, Hooks ‘n’ Books, Purls ‘n’ Patterns