Meeting Dates: Wednesdays, 3:30pm-5:30pm
Knitting is a life skill! It is associated with lower heart rates and blood pressure, as well as decreased stress hormones. Anecdotally, knitting is associated with increased patience, better concentration and dexterity, and lowered anxiety. Nearly 2000 years old, its techniques are used in the manufacturing of cutting-edge fabrics and last-minute birthday gifts! Together, we will learn to knit, or improve on existing skills, and complete at least two knitting projects: one individual and one collective.
Along the way, we’ll work with guest teachers who will help us build skills and place knitting in the context of other such fiber arts as crochet, weaving, felting and spinning. We’ll also welcome guest experts from a range of fields where knitting and fiber techniques are explored, such as materials engineering, chemistry, psychology, archeology, gender studies, architecture, and art history.
EXPERIENCE GOALS:
- Learn, practice and develop knitting skills as a craft.
- Explore a broad range of academic perspectives through their intersections with knitting and fiber arts.
- Gain an appreciation for how a single subject can be appreciated and studied by various disciplines.
- Set a knitting project goal to advance one’s skill (appropriate to their starting point).
- Complete an academic project that goes further in depth on one aspect of knitting through a perspective of interest to the student.
Application Opens Nov. 2