Radford’s new Crochet Club run by junior Molly Fitzgerald and teacher advisor Arlene Pai in Room 241, will be held every first and third Thursday of the month during lunch. The club seeks to have a place where students who crochet can go to chill and crochet. 

Fitzgerald started crocheting about six months ago after she started watching YouTube tutorials. She had originally started to do it when she was a lot younger but she said she didn’t really learn it. 

“Honestly it’s just a fun hobby. I can create stuff, there’s even an option to sell it if you want to make an Etsy shop,” said Fitzgerald.

Fitzgerald’s inspiration for the club came from seeing a lot of people crocheting at school. She and a group of friends in her photography class last year would crochet together and came up with the idea of the crochet club. So this year Fitzgerald is using that idea and putting together the crochet club. The club has plans to crochet, do a few group projects, and make blankets or stuffed animals for newborn babies as a service project. 

Since this is a new club, members are still working on planning events and funding.  “Unfortunately I don’t think we would be able to raise enough funds to cover all the people in the club but we could definitely be able to share yarn …If you didn’t have enough money for the good crochet hooks we lend out a few different sizes but you will have to provide your own materials,” said Fitzgerald. 

Fitzgerald wants this to be a very easy-going club. 

She said, “You can come create with other people or you don’t even have to interact with other people. You can come and just crochet in the corner, in fact, that be my type of person honestly. Just come and enjoy crocheting. You don’t even have to crochet either, you can just come and learn how to.”

If students are interested in joining the Crochet Club, they can talk to Pai in Room 241.