Success StoryYarn Club and Community Connections
Yarn Club and Community Connections
Author: Anne Stephens
Planning Unit: Greenup County CES
Major Program: Volunteer Engagement in the Arts
Plan of Work: Creativity Club, Woodcarving Club, Crochet and Knitting Guild, Photography Club
Outcome: Intermediate Outcome
Greenup County Extension Fine Arts Program has enjoyed the growth of its newest club with a focus on the heritage art of Crochet and Knitting. Each Greenup Arts club has an approved leader and a group of members with a desire to learn, grow a skill, and connect to their community. Supporting the club leader, encouraging self-starting, and securing club member buy-in is a goal of the leadership of the Greenup Arts Program.
As part of its mission, The Yarn Club decided this past summer to make charity lapghans to be donated to patients at the dialysis center in Greenup. They wanted it to be a unique project, so they worked a crochet-a-long. The leader shared a weekly lesson for the members to practice and then add to their project. The goal was to create multiple lapghans that showed unique individual work, although each club member followed the same pattern. The end result was terrific and the club members were proud!
Their next charity donation focus is the cancer center at Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital. The club will make matching blankets and cancer hats.
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