Location: Pearl Studios 500 8th Ave

Virtual attendance is an option, supplies can be mailed to virtual attendees with enough advance registration.

Our Cozy Corners invite you to connect and indulge in all the ways you treat yourself outside of fitness. Join us for our needle-crafting edition on Thurs. Dec.12 at 6pm at Pearl Studios (doors open at 6, we’ll officially start at 6:15pm). Learn to crochet with a quick lesson in the basic stitches that will guide you in finishing your very first project, or bring your own knit/crochet work in progress and enjoy good company, tasty tea, while you craft away!

Admission: $36

Included in admission:

• Crochet Lesson (included supplies and finished project are yours to keep)

• Tea samples (including our holiday Sorrel recipe!)

• Connect w/ community (share works in progress and crafty tips & tricks)

• Free knit and crochet patterns

• Complimentary seat in our virtual Recipe Swap on sun. 12/15 at 11am

What is crochet and knitting?

Both are fiber arts that weave yarn into fabric. Crochet involves interlocking loops together with one hook to create a fabric. Knitting involves weaving loops together using 2 pointed needles to create a fabric.

What are the benefits of knitting and crocheting?

• Helps calm anxiety, relieve stress, and reduce depression by focusing the brain on coordinated, rhythmic, repetitive hand movements. This article shares more about the effects of needle-crafting on mental health.

• Provides an outlet for creativity that builds self-esteem and yields unique clothes, housewares, art, toys, jewelry, etc. for self or as gifts for others