{"id":1645,"date":"2015-01-23T13:55:36","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T18:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cento.centre.edu\/?p=1645"},"modified":"2015-01-23T13:55:36","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T18:55:36","slug":"classic-hobbies-back-in-style-students-hooked-on-knitting-and-crocheting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cento.centre.edu\/index.php\/2015\/01\/23\/classic-hobbies-back-in-style-students-hooked-on-knitting-and-crocheting\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic Hobbies back in Style: Students Hooked on Knitting and Crocheting"},"content":{"rendered":"

By LAURA HUMBLE – STAFF WRITER<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Knitting crochet, sewing, and needlepoint are growing pastimes amongst the Centre student body.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now I\u2019ve got, like, eight projects going\u2026 I\u2019m working on two blankets, two scarves, I just finished a pair of socks and I\u2019m about to start a sweater on Friday,\u201d senior and expert knitter Olivia Kernekin said.<\/p>\n

Kernekin, who worked on one of these scarves during this interview, began knitting at an early age.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy cousin taught me when I was seven and she bought me my first pair of knitting needles\u2026 I didn\u2019t do it seriously for awhile because I was [a child],\u201d Kernekin said. \u201cThen when I moved to Mexico, I took a class where we had to knit socks and make our own knitting needles. It all came rushing back. I feel like I\u2019ve always been knitting\u2014it\u2019s always been in the background. High school was when it really exploded. That\u2019s when I started reading patterns and teaching myself other stitches.\u201d<\/p>\n

Knitting can be intimidating to start for those wanting to try it. First-year Jessica Haralu, who has now been knitting for about a year and a half, experienced her own rough start when she began.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy grandmother from India taught [her children] how to knit, so when she came over, she taught me how to knit too and I really liked it\u2026 When I first learned it was difficult. I would take hours and hours. You have to be very disciplined, at least at first,\u201d Haralu said.<\/p>\n

But once you master the basics, knitting can provide the perfect, constructive outlet for stress.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s kind of like a zen activity. It\u2019s repetitive; your fingers are going through the motions. It gives me something to do with my hands and I like working with my hands. I feel like it\u2019s seen in most circles as a unique skill, so I like making things for people too because they\u2019re just so in awe over it and I\u2019m just like I\u2019m going to be doing it anyway,\u201d Kernekin said.<\/p>\n

With the endless host of techniques, stitches, styles, materials and patterns, knitting seems a daunting task, but Kernekin disagrees.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnyone can knit,\u201d Kernekin said, though she added one caveat. \u201cKnitting involves a lot of math. I thought I was done with math, but I was like, \u2018Oh wait. All the time math.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

But if you think knitting might be too much for you, consider crochet. Senior and crochet expert Annie Wolff, a knitter when she was young, learned how to crochet two years ago. \u201cIn knitting you use two needles and keep the stitches on the needles. It\u2019s easy to drop a stitch. But in crochet you just have a hook and start anywhere,\u201d Wolff said. \u201cThe stitches are more like building blocks whereas knitting stitches are more interwoven.\u201d<\/p>\n

The two styles have different aesthetic looks, which may be one reason why a person is drawn to one over the other.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s faster to make blankets out of crochet. It\u2019s really impractical to knit a blanket,\u201d Wolff said.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re interested in taking up some kind of needlework during the cold, dark winter months, you can\u2019t go wrong with either option. Perhaps by the end of CentreTerm, you\u2019ll have made yourself a scarf to see you through spring and gain lasting skill that not many others can boast of possessing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By LAURA HUMBLE – STAFF WRITER Knitting crochet, sewing, and needlepoint are growing pastimes amongst the Centre student body. \u201cRight now I\u2019ve got, like, eight projects going\u2026 I\u2019m working on two blankets, two scarves, I just finished a pair of socks and I\u2019m about to start a sweater on Friday,\u201d senior and expert knitter Olivia […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-leisure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cento.centre.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cento.centre.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cento.centre.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cento.centre.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cento.centre.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cento.centre.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cento.centre.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cento.centre.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cento.centre.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}